What Happened to Yahoo
august 2010 by ohskylab
"So which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Which companies are "in the software business" in this respect? As Yahoo discovered, the area covered by this rule is bigger than most people realize. The answer is: any company that needs to have good software."
yahoo
culture
technology
business
paulgraham
august 2010 by ohskylab
Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Of Hamsters, Feature Creatures and Missed Opportunities – my talk at Fronteers 2009
november 2009 by ohskylab
"How some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing" plus some good stuff on YQL.
christianheilmann
yahoo
yql
development
career
web
november 2009 by ohskylab
Mozilla Webdev » Blog Archive » Cesium 0.1 Released!
july 2009 by ohskylab
"A hybrid web application/testing harness that automatically runs YSlow on a suite of pages of the user’s choosing at scheduled times, stores these results, and provides a host of graphs and other data concerning the results of these tests."
development
testing
optimization
yslow
hpw
performance
yahoo
july 2009 by ohskylab
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy's three-legged race
july 2009 by ohskylab
A classic quote from last time round: "The Borg-Yahoo merger won't work. Here's why. It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster."
quotes
business
google
yahoo
microsoft
fakestevejobs
july 2009 by ohskylab
Adam Goucher » Blog Archive » YSlow and Continuous Integration
june 2009 by ohskylab
"This post explains how, if I didn’t have a whole bunch of stuff on my plate right now, I would get YSlow failing builds."
via:paul.irish
yslow
yahoo
hpw
continuousintegration
development
testing
optimization
performance
firebug
june 2009 by ohskylab
Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN
may 2009 by ohskylab
"Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup."
api
maps
geo
yahoo
lbs
web
may 2009 by ohskylab
Sideline from Yahoo!
april 2009 by ohskylab
"An Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest."
tools
software
social
twitter
trends
yahoo
microblogging
air
april 2009 by ohskylab
Del.icio.us Finally Gets Some Respect from Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb
april 2009 by ohskylab
"Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is."
del.icio.us
boss
yahoo
web
social
api
data
readwriteweb
search
folksonomy
april 2009 by ohskylab
Accessibility Tips
march 2009 by ohskylab
Yahoo folk providing accessibility info.
yahoo
web
accessibility
usability
blog
march 2009 by ohskylab
WebAIM Survey Shines Light on Screen Reader Usage » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
february 2009 by ohskylab
Good analysis of the recent WebAIM screen reader survey. Use <Hn> tags, think hard about accesskeys, use skip links, know your audience.
web
accessibility
usability
yahoo
ux
screenreaders
february 2009 by ohskylab
Configuring Your Machine For Testing With A Screen Reader » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
december 2008 by ohskylab
"Some tips on how to configure your development environment for screen reader testing." Although getting a dev to play with a screenreader can lead to a false sense of security; no substitute for proper testing.
accessibility
testing
aria
jaws
screenreaders
yahoo
web
december 2008 by ohskylab
The Open Stack: An Introduction (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
december 2008 by ohskylab
"The "Open Stack" refers to a set of technologies that work together to make it easier for web developers and users to manage access to user data across the Web."
development
social
yahoo
openid
opensocial
oauth
portability
openstack
december 2008 by ohskylab
Patterns for Designing a Reputation System » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
june 2008 by ohskylab
"They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software."
design
community
reputation
patterns
web
yahoo
june 2008 by ohskylab
Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
may 2008 by ohskylab
"Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG)"
omnigraffle
templates
ui
yahoo
design
may 2008 by ohskylab
Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
april 2008 by ohskylab
"In the coming weeks, we'll be releasing more detailed specifications that will describe our support of semantic web standards. Initially, we plan to support a number of microformats, including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN." Rock on.
yahoo
semanticweb
microformats
search
april 2008 by ohskylab
Kelkoo goes microformatic (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)
march 2008 by ohskylab
"We’ve just published 26,456,448 hListings on Kelkoo. [...] Alongside that gigantic number, we’ve also published 6500 hcards for the details of our merchants and stores; the companies listing the products on Kelkoo."
microformats
hcard
hlisting
uk
kelkoo
yahoo
web
march 2008 by ohskylab
Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry
march 2008 by ohskylab
"What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data."
yahoo
microformats
semantic
web
techcrunch
march 2008 by ohskylab
Pipes: Last.fm Tumblr
january 2008 by ohskylab
"Creates a weekly feed of your top 5 artists from Last.fm for import into Tumblr."
tumblr
feeds
last.fm
charts
pipes
yahoo
january 2008 by ohskylab
Yahoo! Media Player
january 2008 by ohskylab
"Enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist."
yahoo
music
javascript
mp3
audio
web
january 2008 by ohskylab
Particletree » Automatically Version Your CSS and JavaScript Files
january 2008 by ohskylab
Clever clever. "What this does is quietly redirects any files located in our \scripts\ or \css\ folders with version numbers in between the file name and the extension back to just the filename and extension."
htaccess
optimization
hpw
yahoo
web
development
cache
january 2008 by ohskylab
The Yahoo! Juku » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
december 2007 by ohskylab
"Front end web development has traditionally been viewed as rather "lightweight"engineering. Around the world, companies assumed that anyone could write HTML [...]". Yahoo's front-end engineering training.
yahoo
learning
juku
web
frontend
december 2007 by ohskylab
YUI Theater — Nate Koechley: “The YUI CSS Foundation” » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
october 2007 by ohskylab
"In this 40-minute presentation, Nate takes you on a detailed tour of the YUI CSS foundation, its philosophy, and its usage."
web
yui
css
yahoo
video
october 2007 by ohskylab
YUI Theater — PPK on the Professionalization of Frontend Engineering » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
october 2007 by ohskylab
"PPK has embarked recently on a project to create a professional organization for frontend engineers in his native Holland. The organization is called “Fronteers” (frontend engineers)"
video
javascript
ui
standards
fronteers
ppk
web
yahoo
october 2007 by ohskylab
Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends at FISTFULAYEN
october 2007 by ohskylab
"A brief, twenty minute presentation to some friends in the music industry about why it’s time we pay closer attention to consumer needs when it comes to digital music."
music
yahoo
business
mp3
strategy
october 2007 by ohskylab
Design Inside Yahoo!: George Oates | unraveled
august 2007 by ohskylab
"I talked to George about Flickr’s beginnings at Ludicorp, its place in Yahoo!’s social media strategy and the Flickr design process."
flickr
design
ui
yahoo
interviews
august 2007 by ohskylab
Coding Horror: YSlow: Yahoo's Problems Are Not Your Problems
august 2007 by ohskylab
"Before you run off and implement all of Yahoo's solid advice, consider the audience. These are rules from Yahoo, which according to Alexa is one of the top three web properties in the world."
performance
web
yslow
yahoo
development
optimization
hpw
august 2007 by ohskylab
YSlow for Firebug
july 2007 by ohskylab
"...analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool." Hurrah, been waiting for this since @media.
firefox
firebug
performance
yahoo
yslow
web
development
testing
optimization
hpw
july 2007 by ohskylab
YUI Theater — Karo Caran and Victor Tsaran: “Introduction to Screen Magnifiers” » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
june 2007 by ohskylab
"Karo Caran takes us on a 16 minute overview of screen magnification software (in this case ZoomText) and how it is used by partially-sighted users to interact with the Web."
accessibility
video
yahoo
yui
web
magnification
june 2007 by ohskylab
mindtangle » Blog Archive » Optimizing the Frontend
may 2007 by ohskylab
"Notes from O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo. The workshop was “High Performance Webpages,” a dense, three-hour session with two leads on Yahoo!’s front-end optimization team."
performance
web
yahoo
hpw
may 2007 by ohskylab
14 rules for fast web pages (Skrentablog)
may 2007 by ohskylab
"14 rules for faster front end performance"
performance
web
css
development
yahoo
hpw
may 2007 by ohskylab
idproxy.net - use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID
february 2007 by ohskylab
"idproxy.net lets you use your Yahoo! account to sign in to sites that support the OpenID standard"
yahoo
fowalondon07
openid
authentication
web
web2.0
phishing
identity
api
february 2007 by ohskylab
ZoneTag | Yahoo! Research
february 2007 by ohskylab
"The application allows you to quickly and easily upload images from your camera phone to Flickr. The photos uploaded can be automatically annotated with the location (usually based on cell tower) in which they were taken."
flickr
mobile
yahoo
geo
photography
smartphone
web2.0
fowalondon07
february 2007 by ohskylab
Geek to Live: Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes - Lifehacker
february 2007 by ohskylab
"Instead of going here, there and everywhere to see all the content you create on the web, combine it all into one master feed using with the newly-launched Yahoo! Pipes."
pipes
rss
yahoo
web
lifehacks
february 2007 by ohskylab
Performance Research, Part 1: What the 80/20 Rule Tells Us about Reducing HTTP Requests » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
november 2006 by ohskylab
"It turns out that most of web page performance is affected by front-end engineering, that is, the user interface design and development."
performance
optimization
http
yahoo
web
css
november 2006 by ohskylab
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Agree to Standard Sitemaps Protocol
november 2006 by ohskylab
"Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org, the system instructs web masters on how to install an XML file on their servers that all thr
open
seo
standards
microsoft
yahoo
sitemaps
google
november 2006 by ohskylab
Edgework: Tom Coates at Like It Matters
october 2006 by ohskylab
"We talk about how to design for a distributed Web, how individual sharing leads to the creation of social and business value, and also a bit about Yahoo’s Hackday and how they are trying to put social software, open APIs and microformats to work."
tomcoates
podcast
yahoo
social
software
microformats
web
october 2006 by ohskylab
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo’s BBAuth Will Allow Better Mashups
september 2006 by ohskylab
"A mechanism for non-Yahoo applications to access Yahoo’s authentication mechanism and user data in a secure manner."
api
authentication
security
yahoo
web
mashup
september 2006 by ohskylab
Yahoo! UI Library: Reset CSS
may 2006 by ohskylab
"This foundational CSS file offers cross-browser normalization of the default rendering of HTML elements. It also removes common default presentation such as bolding of strong elements, helping to ensure that all style is declared intentionally and that e
css
web
reset
patterns
yahoo
may 2006 by ohskylab
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
february 2006 by ohskylab
"A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context."
javascript
tools
web
ui
yahoo
design
patterns
february 2006 by ohskylab
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