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Discovered a fun little feature in Yahoo Mail this week that made me wish for the same in Gmail: the Subject-O-Matique, a random subject line inserter. When you just can't think of the right subject...

Honey is all very well, but what we really need is more tin.

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One of the key open source people at Yahoo is Jeremy Zawodny.

Was Jeremy Zawodny:

It's been quite a ride, and I'm really going to miss Yahoo. I'll miss the parking debates and all the "random" stuff we're so fond of ranting about. Watching from the outside is going to be a very different experience. But the opportunity to work in a much smaller company recently presented itself and it was simply too interesting to pass up. I'll say more about that in the coming weeks.

Gadgetopia: "Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have gotten together and actually agreed on extensions to the REP — the Robots Exclusion Protocol, otherwise known as your robots.txt file."

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Yahoo unveils a "sneak peek" of a new product that aims to bridge the gap between your web browser and desktop—BrowserPlus, a desktop utility that enables richer browser interaction, like drag...

Zoho really wants people to try out their applications. They have opened the doors to users with Google and Yahoo accounts to access Zoho applications without having to create a new username/password. Is this Zoho's step towards the OpenID? Or a ploy to steal Google Apps users away?

Let's face it, open source software runs the Internet. Without it we wouldn't have basic services like DNS, or even the web server that's sending you this page. This isn't a new phenomenon. People have been writing and distributing OSS software since the Internet was born. I'm always amused when people characterize it as a new-fangled thing.

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Yahoo's testing out a new kind of search page layout: when you search for broad-reaching terms (like Einstein, and happily, Lifehacker), you may arrive on their beta "Glue Page," which groups web...

BusinessWeek: There's been no shortage of opinions on the failed takeover as bloggers offer plenty of advice for CEOs Yang and Ballmer—plus a few laughs.

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The open social party is apparently the place to be. Even old Microsoft just announced LiveMesh). Now Yahoo, who's Flickr photo sharing site is the second most popular used API on the web, has rolled out a limited preview to the developer platform they announced in February called SearchMonkey.

eWeek: Yahoo's CTO offers a bold, promising glimpse of the future of the portal as a social network ... just as Microsoft prepares to move in.

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It's the new buzzword:

Yahoo Inc. is swinging the doors of its Web platforms wide open to let outside developers create applications across its network of sites and is radically stitching together its online services under the social profile concept.

The idea is to let the hundreds of millions of people who use its Web mail, instant messaging, calendar, photo management and other online services replicate the social experience that social networks like MySpace and Facebook have made so popular.

NewsTools2008 takes place April 30-May 3 at the yahoo! Conference Center in Sunnyvale, California If you're a Drupal programmer, user-experience expert, social-network innovator, or web 2.0 entrepreneur, you're invited! The topic of the event is "Technology and the New Ecology of News: How will technology innovation support journalism and participatory democracy?" It's billed as an event in which journalism's ideals will meet Silicon Valley's tools in a three-day, conceptual mashup. Groovy.

Online advertising is a huge business, that's a no brainer. But those of us who have dealt with the inner workings of the online ad world know that there is much room for improvement in the management department. Purchasing, selling and managing impressions alone can take weeks of time, when they really probably shouldn't.

But cheer up, young publisher, Yahoo! wants to help. To the cynics, Yahoo! also wants to increase its perceived value to force Microsoft to raise its bid to purchase it, but that's for another article.

Anyway, Yahoo! is moving forward with plans to release their new ad management system, dubbed AMP!. It's a web-based, online advertising management platform that they say will simplify the process of creating, buying, and selling ads online.