Yahoo

We all knew it would happen. Warnings were there. Now, it has been done.
The Geocities sites are gone, as Yahoo has removed them from the web.
from Digital Inspiration
Yahoo! acquired Geocities in January 1999 and, after operating the service for more than 10 years, they are finally shutting it down today.
Geocities hosts around 7+ million public [...]

One of the things that kept some using Yahoo was the ability to have a free web site hosted by Yahoo under the GeoCities banner.
The closure had been announced in summer (but if I remember correctly, it was before the deal with Microsoft had been struck), yet many hoped against hope that something would change.
It [...]

Though the new slogan from Yahoo would seem to indicate the focus was on each user, it must take a back seat in that department compared to the likes of Twitter.
A recent study, done by Rutgers University, shows that Twitter is the most egocentric thing happening on the internet, and that when someone tweets it [...]

Everyone not hiding under a rock is aware that there is a war on, between the Microsoft and Google camps, placing many in the crossfire. The first to be part of the casualties was the user base of Yahoo, who were thrown under the bus, as the CEO of Yahoo decided that cash up front [...]

You get the idea though the metaphor is purposely mangled. Microsoft is now finding out that quick pushes, like paying people to use a search, er… decision engine, is only going to get so far.
Unless you keep jacking up the money.
Since that doesn’t seem to be happening, the losses of search numbers are starting to [...]

Just about the time you thought it was at least possible to casually peruse the internet without full armor, it appears that it’s time to put the chainmail back on, no matter how much it chafes.
Places you thought you could trust are popping up with embedded trojans, making it unsafe to peer through your firewall [...]

The new direction at Yahoo these days seems to be one where the company gets rid of everything, while it still has value, similar to the strategy of its CEO, and her shares in the company.
After gutting the search department, and telling the world that Yahoo has never been a search company, but an advertising [...]

You really have to hand it to some people, they lead charmed lives. They come in with no experience in a specific field, get a sweetheart deal to get the job, including a huge stock package, do a guided bend and take for Microsoft, and emerge to give interviews about how making the right decisions [...]

This sounds strangely like a case that I have lived. When I worked for Radio Shack, it was headed by a man named Len Roberts. Mr. Roberts had promised us, as managers, that he was doing things that would make any manager that had been with the company for 5 years or more a millionaire, [...]

That is the story from the voice for Yahoo yesterday, and the company appears to be sticking with it. The newest face of Microsoft states that though the search technology is no longer their bailiwick, they will innovate there. Odd.
from Betanews
In a conference call yesterday live-blogged by Search Engine Land, representatives from Yahoo gave a [...]

When we heard from the new and ostensibly improved Yahoo CEO, that the company was not a search company but an ad company, it was shocking, and a bit wondrous. After all, those of us who used the portal went there to find things, read things already on the main pages, or search for something [...]

Once again, we have a story, popping up on Tom’s Hardware, that shows how out of touch (or out to lunch, if you prefer) the new lackey of Microsoft CEO of Yahoo is.
She states that the company’s fortunes are tied up in its pages (of advertising). Well. they certainly are now!
It never was a [...]

I have not been using Flickr that long, but since there have been, on and off, problems with posting remotely using pictures as part of the posting on this column, I have found that Flicker is my friend, making the posting, and retrieval of pictures, through Windows Live Writer, easy.
It is much easier (for me) [...]

While watching Charlie Rose last night, at least one third of the show was dedicated to trying to figure out, with the help of a couple of industry insiders, from Tech Crunch, and Wired, and a reporter from the Wall Street Journal, exactly what the head honcho at Microsoft was thinking when coming up with [...]

In a letter titled “What our Microsoft deal means to you“  Yahoo salesperson CEO Carol Bartz gives an insincere apology for screwing the troops, without thinking twice.
It’s inhumanly early in California, but it’s already a great day at Yahoo!. We’ve just signed a major search deal with Microsoft. Under the terms, Microsoft will become the [...]