Posts Tagged with ‘Yahoo!’

Remember playing the "telephone game" as a child? You'd stand in a line or sit in a circle and pass messages from one person to the next, whispering into an ear. At the end of the line, the message was usually so garbled from the first person as to be unrecognizable from what it began as. So goes the tech blogosphere these days.
News moves at a fast and furious pace, with each blogger trying to jump on the latest news [...]

For all my harping on cellular providers' ho-hum attempts to deliver quality mobile social content, I like to think I'm holding out for the real goods.  From what I can tell, Fring might just be the at the head of the mobile social platform pack. 
Fring is a free mobile platform that allows users to access social communities like Skype, MSN Messenger, GTalk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM on the go via cellular devices.  For most of those [...]

It seems from watching my news feeds that company executives from Yahoo and its properties are fleeing as fast as they can, like rats from a sinking ship. You can hardly blame them. Yahoo has been a shining example of what not to do the past few months - hardly confidence inspiring.
The two most recent departees are Flickr 's founders Catrina Fake and Stewart Butterfield. Flickr being one of my favorite of Yahoo' s cool properties, the news got my [...]

Well, it is official: Google has now infiltrated Yahoo via ads. Has Google found the back door in to taking over the struggling company, or is it truly only in this for good, not evil, as per the famous Google motto? Google took the time to release a statement about the new ad arrangement with Yahoo on its blog as a kind of preemptive strike against just that kind of speculation.
I could be wrong on this, but I just don't [...]

Facebook fatigue. Have you heard the phrase? Are you suffering from it? Where once I logged into Facebook first thing every morning to check status updates and new links from tech-minded friends, I can't tell you the last time I logged in. And I no longer seem to get friend requests, although I regularly find adds on FriendFeed and LinkedIn.
Today is the first anniversary of the launch of the Facebook Platform, and it was marked with the official announcement that [...]

Was it only last month that we got news that Yahoo's BrowserPlus had risen from the dead? It seems like it was ages ago, but what with the ongoing MicroHoo tug-of-war and all the other rally-the-troops look-we've-still-got-it developments this year (Yahoo Buzz, Shine), they are all starting to run together.
At any rate, Yahoo must have felt jealous over all the attention being given to all the other cool releases and conference news being broadcast, and decided to give us a [...]

Twing classifies itself as an alternate search engine and as it notes, only searches forums and forum discussions. Twing also notes that it "…aims to be the most comprehensive and highly targeted forum search engine for real people seeking real discussions and real information in real time." It will be interesting to see if it can truly bring into being what it suggests it can.
Twing, inside and out:
Not having a sufficient theory on just how Twing worked but interested enough to [...]

Yahoo is turning out to be the Hillary Clinton of the web these days: running a campaign to save itself that is on its last legs and refusing to stand down and let the more stable web candidates win. It doesn't help matters that it is being pursued in the most schizophrenic manner possible by Microsoft, or that its own shareholders have long since had it with the shenanigans on both sides.
It is hard not to grow increasingly bored [...]

Twitter and tech news sites lit up like a Christmas tree with the news that Microsoft was pulling their bid for Yahoo. Game over. Money's off the table, Jerry.
And while MG Sigler thinks that there will be fallout for Ballmer , I think Ballmer made the right decision, and one I wish he'd done even earlier. Yahoo has spent its time since the bid grasping at straws to try to increase its possible valuation. The deal with Google for [...]