Category Archives: Yahoo!

Geotweeting with iPhone 3G and GPS

2008/06/10 – 14:11

How about “Geo-tweeting”? Automatically posting geo-tagged updates to Twitter via iPhone 3G‘s GPS chip, cell data coverage and wifi coverage? Maybe a Google Maps geotweet maps mashup? Needless to say, I’m very excited about the new iPhone 3g, and can’t wait to get my hands on one and try out the GPS, high speed data, [...]

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By Jeffrey | Also posted in Apple, Photography, Tech, Toys, Wireless | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

More shakeups at Yahoo! – yHaus Axed

2008/02/16 – 10:13

Things seem to be seriously shaking up over at Yahoo! lately. In addition to a 45 Billion hostile takeover bid from Microsoft, I just heard via Portfolio.com that Yahoo!’s entire design innovation team was fired, en masse. The whole team that focused on next-gen design is gone. It seems like Yahoo!, amidst increased operation costs [...]

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Yahoo soaring on $45 BILLION MSFT bid!

2008/02/01 – 15:34

Real quick.. what’s been going on with Yahoo! lately?! This is insane! Quick wrapup of the last few days for Yahoo!…. Yahoo! starts supporting the fantastic OpenID unified login protocol- huge move of support for the project. Yahoo! tries to buy Maven Networks for  a cool 150 Million. And finally, the big hitter… Microsoft bids [...]

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Yahoo adopts OpenID, critical mass may have been reached.

2008/01/31 – 09:28

No matter how cool or innovative a particular new technology is, without the critical big business adoption process, it’s usually doomed. We’re in the midst of seeing this with Joost, as they can’t sign the big content deals with major providers. We’re NOT, however, seeing this doom with OpenID – it seems to be doing [...]

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