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After "Obama as Joker" Copyright Debacle, Flickr Changes its Takedown Policy

Written by Sarah Perez / September 3, 2009 7:39 AM / 11 Comments

When 20-year-old college student Firas Alkhateeb posted a picture of President Obama decked out in Joker facepaint to photo-sharing website Flickr, little did he know that he was going to Continue reading »

Firefox Translation Plug-In to Increase Global Dialogue

Written by Dana Oshiro / August 25, 2009 8:00 PM / 9 Comments

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Yahoo announced its acquisition of Maktoob today in a deal meant to improve programming in areas like the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Wrote VP of Emerging Markets Keith Nillson, Continue reading »

Yahoo Updates Yahoo Mail, Messenger & Search: Still Commited to Improving Search Technology

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 24, 2009 12:41 PM / 4 Comments

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During a press conference today, Yahoo announced a large number of updates to Yahoo Mail, Search, and Messenger. Yahoo Mail, for example, will now feature status updates from a user's Continue reading »

Yahoo Deals: Woot and the New Coupon Clippers

Written by Dana Oshiro / August 10, 2009 7:10 PM / 2 Comments

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Yahoo has just launched Yahoo Deals, a site that offers coupons, deals and shopping related tips in a searchable format. According to the release, "web searches for "printable coupons" on Continue reading »

All the Web's a Database: Yahoo Extends YQL With Insert, Update, Delete

Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 8, 2009 9:00 AM / 4 Comments

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Last October, Yahoo announced the Yahoo Query Language, a language similar to the popular database language SQL. Then, this February, Yahoo also announced its first major product that made use Continue reading »

Yahoo Releases a New Toolbar (P.S. It's Broken)

Written by Sarah Perez / June 22, 2009 7:51 AM / 21 Comments

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A few days ago, Yahoo! released a new version of their browser toolbar and this time, they've made it available for Firefox users, too, albeit in a beta format. Previously, Continue reading »

Yahoo Image Search: Now With Creative Commons

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 26, 2009 11:57 AM / 5 Comments

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Yahoo Image Search got a nice update today that allows users to filter search results by Creative Commons (CC) license. For now, this search only includes CC-licensed images from Flickr, Continue reading »

Comparing Yahoo and Google's Voice Search Applications

Written by Sarah Perez / May 26, 2009 8:29 AM / 7 Comments

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At the end of last week, Yahoo! introduced an update to their iPhone application (iTunes URL) which now includes the ability to perform web searches using only your voice. This Continue reading »

Yahoo Meme: Hands On With Yahoo's Twitter 'Clone'

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 26, 2009 8:23 AM / 25 Comments

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A few weeks ago, we heard that Yahoo was readying a Portuguese-only Twitter clone under the name Yahoo Meme. Today, we finally got our invitation to try this new service, Continue reading »

Developers: Never Mind the APIs, Here's YQL Execute

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 2, 2009 10:00 AM / 21 Comments

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"I Tried YQL Execute and All I Got Was an Authenticated Javascript API Processing Layer in the Cloud" There's a great amount of data available on the Web in APIs Continue reading »

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