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deusx : Yahoo's Bartz Drops F-Bomb At D7! (YHOO) - "In a discussion with Kara Swisher about whether Bartz is too old to understand the Internet, Bartz leaned in to Kara and said, "f--- you." Much applause, says AllThingsD's Peter Kafka. Carol also dissed the Yahoo org chart under Jerr
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deusx : From Delicious to Mozilla at Spindrop - Welcome aboard, Dave! "Today I said my good-byes to Delicious.com and Yahoo! and tonight I went to the Addons Meetup @ Mozilla to get a sneak peak at what I'll be working on in less than two weeks. ... I'm also happy to be joining an organi
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Simon Willison : geocoders - geocoders. A fifteen minute project extracted from something else I’m working on—an ultra simple Python API for geocoding a single string against Google, Yahoo! Placemaker, GeoNames and (thanks to Jacob) Yahoo! Geo’s web services.
philgyford : Simonw's geocoders at master - GitHub - Python "code for accessing various geocoding web services with an ultra simple API". Sounds good.
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Simon Willison : Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0 - Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0. Another awesome Geo dataset from the Yahoo! stable—this time it’s Flickr releasing shapefiles (geometrical shapes) for hundreds of thousands of places around the world, under the CC0 license which makes them ess
philgyford : Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0 - I keep seeing cool code stuff whizz by and I'm not making anything with it. May need to ringfence time from other commitments just to *do* something.
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Simon Willison : Yahoo! Placemaker - Yahoo! Placemaker. Really exciting new API from Yahoo!—Placemaker accepts a block of text (or a URL to HTML or RSS) and extracts and returns geographical locations mentioned in the text. I just ran my djng blog entry through it and it pulled out “Pr
Andy Baio : Yahoo! Placemaker, extract world locations from unstructed content - also, Yahoo released the huge GeoPlanet/WOE placename database under a CC license
philgyford : Yahoo! Placemaker_ Beta - YDN - Parses text and extracts any recognisable locations. (via Simon Willison)
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nelson : Hadoop petabyte sort - Hadoop sorts a petabyte in 16 hours. Compare Google's 6 hour petabyte sort, but then that's not open source
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deusx : » Defining What it Means to be Open « Laaker.com - Micah Laaker - "Below are the 13 facets of openness that I’ve been cataloging as a means to better describe this term. (They range on a scale starting on the technology side and ending on the side of the user’s experience.)"
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Andy Baio : Dreamhost's history of WebRing - sold for $3.5 million to Geocities, vested to $100M in Yahoo stock by 2000, and bought back for $10,000
deusx : DreamHost Blog » They’re Internet History - "Back in 1998, who would have thought WebRing would outlast GeoCities?"
philgyford : DreamHost Blog " They're Internet History - More stuff about the history of GeoCities and WebRing. (via Waxy)
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Andy Baio : Jason Scott's progress update on mirroring Geocities - in 48 hours, Archive Team's already saved over 200,000 Geocities sites
nelson : Archiving Geocities - Notes from the team spidering Geocities before it's shut down
philgyford : ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities: Lessons So Far - Not just for the good stuff about archiving Geocities, but also about the history of the site and its structure. (via Waxy)
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities - "P.S. Fuck Yahoo! We are going to rescue your shit!"
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tehu : Blo.gs ceased to Automattic - Happy to know that blo.gs will survive to Yahoo
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Rod Begbie : Yahoo! Answers Makes Baby Jebus Cry - "How is Babby Formed?", the blog. [via] #
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deusx : Javascript Best Practices - "A presentation about tricks and best practice ideas of how to use JavaScript given in our office in India as part of an internal training."
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nelson : Yahoo API pricing - $1 / 10,000 spell corrections, $1 / 3000 search results, off peak is cheaper
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo vacating 400,000 square feet in Santa Clara towers - Yahoo vacating 400,000 square feet in Santa Clara towers: Hmmm.
deusx : Yahoo vacating 400,000 square feet in Santa Clara towers - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal: - Was never really a fan of the Mission College Yahoo! campus. All the events and interesting things happened over in Sunnyvale. Place seemed pretty empty a lot of the time when I worked there, too. Yet, when I first started there, it seemed like that�
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deusx : Joshua Schachter - Lessons Learned in Scaling and Building Social Systems | Kris Jordan - "Joshua Schachter is the creator of del.icio.us, creator of geoURL and co-creator of Memepool. Built delicious in 2003, sold it to Yahoo! in 2005, and left Yahoo! just a few years ago. 4+ million users. 100s of millions of urls indexed. He was there
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Linkorama : 7 Reasons Why Carol Bartz Is Right for Yahoo - “When I say find your passion, some people might say this is not the right time and that we need to be pragmatic. But our passions and dreams should not move to the back burner when things get tough. This is exactly the time that we need to tap into new
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deusx : Delicious Founder Schachter Joins Google? (GOOG) - "Delicious founder Joshua Schachter left Yahoo (YHOO) last June, about 2.5 years after Yahoo bought his social bookmarking service. So what's he doing next? Schachter is joining Google (GOOG), according to a Twitter message sent by First Round
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deusx : goodnight jumpcut | chopstickproject.com - "yesterday we put jumpcut into a long deep sleep. well sort of. we disabled uploads so you can’t upload any more clips which means you can’t do anymore editing, which is the whole point of the site. you can still watch the videos you’ve created
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deusx : Reasons Behind Yahoo!'s Four-Year Slump | Investing News | Print Financial & Investing Articles | TheStreet.com - This, in my short experience there, exactly: "But there are four other reasons to account for Yahoo!'s decline in the past four years: (1) A lack of product leadership; (2) self-isolated leadership; (3) a culture tolerating non-performance; and
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deusx : Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Laying off George - "George Oates is responsible for much of what is great about Flickr. George Oates is the last person a sane company would lay off. I don’t know what to think about Yahoo after reading how they laid off George Oates."
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Flickr designer George Oates on her insane layoff from Yahoo! - she was in Taipei when she got the call; her last Flickr blog post about The Commons was just posted yesterday [via]
deusx : kewlchops: Not quite what I had in mind. - ""I'll just get straight to the point. You've been affected by the layoffs." ... I watched as my access to various parts of the guts of Flickr fell away. I noticed how naturally I searched for any and all bits I could think of, ju
Rod Begbie : Not quite what I had in mind. - George Oates's tale of being laid-off from Flickr, whilst half-way around the world, speaking on Flickr's behalf. [via] #
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deusx : Media: Why the Yahoo feeding frenzy? - Yes, unexpected lucidity from Valleywag, but this is why it's so sad: "Yahoo, meanwhile, sees a place for human beings in a future media landscape that is increasingly automated. That's why the emotion that Yahoo attracts isn't anger,
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deusx : Just Got Fired From Yahoo? Have A Taco. - "Today, 1,500 people at Yahoo are losing their jobs, as layoffs across the tech landscape approaches 100,000. But for startups lucky enough to have cash to hire, 1,500 soon-to-be-unemployed Yahoos is a recruiting opportunity. Video chat startup TokB
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deusx : YUI on GitHub — GitHub - "That’s right! As mentioned in their YUIDoc announcement, Yahoo’s User Interface Library is now hosted publicly on GitHub at http://github.com/yui."
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