As you can probably guess, I’m a big fan of My Yahoo! And use it as the primary way I keep up with RSS feeds and all sorts of other content. I love it because I can quickly see all my news at a glance in a format of my own choosing. And lots of […]
You may have caught the news yesterday that Yahoo Publisher Network has added support for ads in RSS feeds. If you are a YPN beta user, you can now (in addition to having ads on your blog or site) include ads within your full post RSS feed. This makes me think about the broader question […]
Jeremy Zawodny posted (in reaction to Reading the Google Tea Leaves) his opinion that Google is building Yahoo 2.0.: it’s as if someone decided to re-invent more and more of Yahoo’s popular services in random order, giving them a fresh user interface, less historical baggage, and usually one feature that really stands out (such as […]
The Yahoo! Maps team just released a new beta (and a great new set of Maps APIs) that is very cool. At first, I wasn’t sure about the idea of doing some stuff using AJAX and a big chunk using flash, but after using it for a while, I’ve really grown to like it. It’s […]
John Furrier at podtech.net interviewed me last week at BlogOn for his InfoTalk series. We actually cover a pretty wide variety of stuff about RSS from how to make it easier, to my favorite Cub Scout RSS feed, and on to our research. I usually hate how my voice sounds on these sort of things, […]
If you are reading this, it is likely that you are interested in some of the work we are doing at Yahoo! in the RSS space. We’ve got an opening for an experienced, dedicated, bright product manager who wants to make great things happen here at Yahoo!. The official job description is below, the best […]
It’s been a busy day for social media at Yahoo! Following on the heels of our RSS research we’re launching three four cool new things on Yahoo! today. Yahoo! Podcasts (Y! Next Release) – this early test release starts off with a podcast directory (with tags and ratings/reviews) and a search engine to help you […]
After getting back from all the Web 2.0 hubbub, I’ve finally been able to dig into what people have been saying about the RSS research that my team did. It’s always amazing to see how people pick up on these things and what people focus on. Scoble wrote: Of the big three companies (Google/Microsoft/Yahoo) Yahoo […]
My team at Yahoo! recently partnered with Ipsos Insight on research into how many people on the Internet are using RSS (whether or not they know the “RSS” term) and how they are using it. We presented this research at our Web 2.0 party and then posted it online at our Publisher’s Guide to RSS […]
Very cool news tonight…we announced that the upcoming.org team is now part of Yahoo. More info is on the search blog and on Andy’s waxy.org. At work we talk a lot about how media is fundamentally shifting to social media. The more we can put power in the hands of the community and put consumers […]
