15 days ago
deusx : Trying to set my old ripped up mattress on fire. How to prevent the house from burning too? - Yahoo! Answers - "I finally got a new mattress so I want to get rid of my old one. Its too heavy to carry downstairs so I was going to burn it right in the room. How do I prevent from the whole house burning down? I set it in the middle of the room and away from the
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deusx : YUI: Bacon Utility - "The Bacon Utility allows you to cook bacon on any HTML element."
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Richard Rutter : Yahoo OpenID fails woefully in usability testing - Sad but not exactly unexpected – I get confused with Yahoo’s implementation and I’m an avid OpenID consumer.
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Simon Willison : Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research - Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research. Extremely valuable research, conducted with a group of typical Yahoo! users. OpenIDs usability remains bad, and if we don’t get it right soon something centralised like Facebook Connect will take over and the Web will
Rod Begbie : Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research - Spoiler: OpenID usability SUCKS MASSIVE DONKEY COCKS IN HELL FOREVER. The mental model is completely broken. Its one use that I can see: an open backend for "Login to this site with your foo.com account" style buttons [via] #
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2 month ago
wearehugh : How do I mark web page content that is extraneous to the main unique content on the page? - holy crap, i had no idea any search engine supported this
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deusx : Hack Day Radar - Y! Hack Day tweets and flickrs in random motion
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4 month ago
deusx : How Yahoo dropped the del.icio.us ball with a pointless 3 year rewrite (from mod_perl to PHP) : reddit.com - I'm on pretty much the same page as Joshua. I was amazed it launched, which is a credit to the remaining team. It'll be interesting to see what happens now—given a 2-3 year innovation time-debt, a brand-new bespoke infrastructure, and a load
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4 month ago
deusx : Offer Personal Content Recommendations for Free with New MyBlogLog Plug-in - ReadWriteWeb - Hey, Delicious should finally do something like this: "When a MyBlogLog visitor visits a site with the plug-in running, the system looks at the tags that user provided for their interests when they created their MyBlogLog account. It then finds blog
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Introducing Wikia Evolution - The mission of Wikia Evolution: To empower users to interact with search.
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4 month ago
deusx : osunick · Delicious 2 = new hotness - "To me this is a great moment as I spent virtually all of the last 18 months preparing for this launch. While I did my best to make sure that my absence didn’t affect the launch, I still wondered if there was some loose end that I forgot to tie. If
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4 month ago
deusx : Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 » delicious redesign - "I have no idea why Yahoo took so long to beat the ugly out of delicious. I’m just glad they didn’t beat the good stuff out in the process."
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4 month ago
deusx : Stephen Hood's d2launch Bookmarks - "These are my bookmarks regarding coverage of the Delicious 2 launch"
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4 month ago
wearehugh : Yahoo Music to offer refunds, what about MSN? | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com
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wearehugh : Yahoo pulls an MSN Music (only faster) | Bit Player | Los Angeles Times
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deusx : Matt McAlister » Chad Dickerson to join Etsy in New York - "Unfortunately, this is a loss for Yahoo! who needs forward-thinking leaders like Chad who can make things happen. Retention must be top of mind at Yahoo! before key institutional knowledge slips out the door and forces people to rethink things that
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5 month ago
deusx : 25smkj8.jpg (JPEG Image, 768x1024 pixels) - Scaled (72%) - "PLEASE STOP PEEING IN THE SINK THANK YOU FACILITIES"
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5 month ago
deusx : Anarchogeek: Good Bye To The Purple Mothership: Leaving Yahoo - "Working with, or rather for Yahoo, was not so great. It was a constant painful struggle"
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5 month ago
philgyford : Slides: Professional Frontend Engineering | Nate Koechley's Blog - A presentation that nicely describes a role that is close to some of what I do. Interesting to see new (in a larger scale) roles become identified and solidified. (via Infovore)
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5 month ago
deusx : Believe in Yahoo! - RussellBeattie.com - "Yahoo! is best when it's a Fast Follower, innovating on the back end and letting other companies try to figure out the next best thing, and either buying/integrating or duplicating those services once the market has been created."
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6 month ago
deusx : DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter - "I have come to realize that management does not seem to fully understand how to run a fucking taco truck, much less an actual, you know, $30 billion business."
Linkorama : DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon | The three survivors - but it “put them in the curio cabinet” without transforming the company, says Jerry Michalski, a technology consultant. Yahoo! was “so bent on being the future”, he says, that it “missed the new”.
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6 month ago
deusx : Unconfirmed: Someone is staying at Yahoo » VentureBeat - "It’s unfortunately sad but true that such a headline is more shocking at this point. The big name Yahoo departure announcements just continue to roll in."
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6 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo - It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo: I saw this coming a mile away...
deusx : It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo - "The development of the new version of delicious seems to have almost stalled within Yahoo, and Joshua cited recent frustrations with the process as playing a part in his resignation."
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6 month ago
nelson : Zawodny to Craigslist - Congratulations, Jeremy! Good luck with the sucky commute though
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6 month ago
deusx : More than bleeding purple - yahooza | the blog - "But .... 2007 reared its ugly head and somewhere, somehow the egos and bureaucracy ate into that spirit."
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