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Tag: yahoo

09 Nov

2006

Yahoo! Groups’ new email technique is stoppable (fortunately)

≡ 10:25 pm ≡ email hate security yahoo

Fig. 1. Taken from Yahoo!’s documentation. (Recommended, my ass.)

OK, I have to take a break from writing my paper to complain about the new “Fully Featured” Yahoo! Groups email style, which was just turned on by default for everyone. Oh, but it’s got features, you say. Bah! My nice little plain-text emails have all been replaced by ugly, web-bugged, bulky HTML.

I had originally feared that you needed a Yahoo! ID to opt out of this monstrosity, but apparently you can switch back to “traditional” (read: plain text) emails by firing off a message to groupname-traditional@yahoogroups.com.

26 Jan

2006

Silicon Valley Damashii, or, the Yahoo! endgame

≡ 8:02 pm ≡ delicious flickr google photo sketchbook tags yahoo

So it appears (though it is still a rumor) that Yahoo! is all set to acquire Digg.

Why is Yahoo! buying up all these niche websites?

09 Dec

2005

y.ah.oo

≡ 6:41 pm ≡ business delicious news tags yahoo

Apparently all lightweight, useful web applications are destined to be eaten by Yahoo!. (See also: Flickr.) The Yahoo! Search Blog has another take on the acquisition of del.icio.us.

18 Feb

2004

More on Yahoo Search

≡ 12:34 pm ≡ mbhs vibes yahoo

Using a different search engine—especially if you haven’t used anything but Google since you dropped AltaVista in 1999—is roughly like picking up the entire Web in an enormous shoebox, and then shaking it all around vigorously. Lots of unusual things come up, including a bunch of nostalgia: a blogger writes about his ViBES experience [fixed link; see also this followup] (ViBES was a MUSH I built in 1994 as a high school hangout); some truly old perl code of mine; Chris Mulligan’s archaeology of MBHS sysop lore, 1993-2002 (including the thought-lost binx credits and goober credits & /etc/issue archive).