Category Archives: Yahoo!

Can search be entertaining?

Definitely! I just got completely blown out by Oamos. The search experience is fantastic. Images, videos, transitions and music are wonderfully inspiring. Ping from Artur Ortega.…

We are here to stay

This is mostly to recruiters and speculators alike. No, I have not been laid off. No, I don’t know anything about the Microsoft bid. And no, I am not moving.

So that’s clear: I love Yahoo!, and we have kick …

Oops, Trying out Yahoo!’s OpenID V2

I set myself to write last night a simple PHP OpenID consumer for Yahoo’s! However, I have encountered the Oops message that most folks have also faced:

Ooops… Hey there! You have stopped by a bit sooner than we had …

Yahoo! ROBO: Research Online, Buy Offline

Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog published last week a study showing that online exposure to product and retailer information, as well as ads, changes consumers behavior. Yahoo! calls that Research Online, Buy Offline, or ROBO (btw, ROBO means theft in Spanish).…

Silence

I have been very much silent on my blog for the last 6 weeks. The reason has been me changing jobs to become Yahoo’s Chief Architect of International Engineering. The first weeks at work have been absolutely thrilling and I …

Increased Transparency Shows Value of YPN

Yahoo!’s new search platform, project Panama, is already showing a win over the last month. A study by comScore shows significant increases in Yahoo’s click through rates, and ad effectiveness when compared to normal links. But to me what is …

Locked out of Yahoo! Instant Messenger

I have been using Yahoo! IM since 1999, but unable to log onto it over the last couple of years because of my employer’s URL filtering system and firewall settings. It seems like my account has been deactivated by Yahoo! …

Feed aggregator: Pipes at Yahoo!

I had a quick go at Yahoo!’s new pipes product. Yahoo! pipes is an aggregator product (not intended for end-consumers) to visually program/constract feed aggregators from any sources. It looks complex as a consumer concept, and it is, but …

Skype, Ebay and Google

Skype asked me yesterday to upgrade last night to the final 3.0 (I use Skype for video conferencing because of its ability to go through firewalls by tunneling on port 80). So having run the beta for over 3 months …