April 28, 2011
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Received this in my mail yesterday, Yahoo! is excited to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, Hurley and Chen have firsthand expertise … Continue reading
May 16, 2007
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I have uploaded my presentation, pipelines: plumbing for the next web fresh from the first day of Xtech 2007 today to Slideshare. The general view is that the presentation went down well and made sense. However I think people really wanted … Continue reading
April 19, 2007
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As previously mentioned on the backstage blog. Hackday.org is now official and you can sign up and grab yourself a ticket now. The dates are the weekend of the 16th – 17th June at Alexander Palace (yes now it makes … Continue reading
February 8, 2007
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I can't believe I missed Yahoo's Pipeline beta. Chris from Touchstone actually dropped me a email and asked if I've seen it. But all I get now is… Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers! Well in the meantime … Continue reading
January 30, 2007
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I think it was about a year ago when Yahoo tried to sweet talk everyone who used Flickr into upgrading to a Yahoo ID. Old Skool flickr members revolted and staged a large protest. Well its happening again, I wonder … Continue reading
August 29, 2006
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There's some debate if this is geotagging or geo anything so I've used maps for now. Found via Digg, Thomas Hawk has a nice review of the new mapping feature in Flickr. I have to say its pretty neat and … Continue reading
February 16, 2006
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The one to look out for is certainly Yahoo. This week they released there UI library into the public domain under a BSD licence and then showed off there design patterns which I sent around to our designers for consideration. … Continue reading
December 9, 2005
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Well, well. You help but feel Yahoo are on a little bit of a roll. Acquiring Flickr.com was pretty fantastic and Kodak must be kicking themselves now. Yes its not been a clean buy with people protesting the whole big … Continue reading
October 23, 2005
by ianforrester
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Quick thought, I was messing around today looking at new widgets for Konfabulator for my laptop and workstation computers. I havent really messed with Konfabulator since Yahoo! bought it, I just simply downloaded the updates and kept all my old … Continue reading