Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo PIpes was ahead of its time. Here’s a nostalgic retrospective by Glenn Fleishman.
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Tom’s videos are so good! Did you see his excellent in-depth piece on copyright?
This one is all about APIs and the golden age of Web 2.0 when we were free to create mashups.
It pairs nicely with a piece by another Tom from a couple of years back on the joy of Twitterbots.
Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo?
For once, Betteridge’s law of headlines is refuted.
This is a fascinating insight into the heady days of 2005 when Yahoo was the cool company snapping up all the best products like Flickr, Upcoming, and Del.icio.us. It all goes downhill from there.
There’s no mention of the surprising coda.
The apparent difficulty of living in my head, freelancing, working for large organisations and then descending in to paranoia.
I have a lot of admiration for Reverend Dan Catt.
I don’t want to be in a position where I say “Hey, I’m working at Google, no no, don’t worry, the good bit of Google”, because goodness knows I did enough of that at Yahoo.
Building the Great Libraries of the Internet with a DNS time machine by Ben Ward
Ben proposes an alternative to archive.org: changing the fundamental nature of DNS.
Regarding the boo-hooing of how hard companies have it maintaining unprofitable URLs, I think Ben hasn’t considered the possibility of a handover to a cooperative of users—something that might yet happen with MySpace (at least there’s a campaign to that effect; it will probably come to naught). As Ben rightly points on, domain names are leased, not bought, so the idea of handing them over to better caretakers isn’t that crazy.
The Death of Upcoming.org - Waxy.org
Heartbreaking and angry-making.
Focusing on our future — some changes to our product line-up
What an Orwellian title for a blog post announcing the wholesale destruction of user’s content. Oh, Yahoo, you sound so proud of your cavalier attitude towards the collective culture that you have harvested.
Vile fuckwits.
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
A heartbreaking article about just how badly Yahoo fucked up with Flickr. It’s particularly sad coming out right as the Flickr devs roll out an improved uploader and a more liquid photo page …but it seems like band-aid development at this point.
ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack - YouTube
Jason’s rip-roaring presentation from Defcon last year.
A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work | Epicenter | Wired.com
A superb scathing piece by Andy, who has a personal perspective on Yahoo’s massively dick move in deploying the patent nuclear option against Facebook.
The Deleted City
This is quite beautiful. An interactive piece that allows you to dig through the ruins of Geocities like an archeologist.
Such wanton destruction! I’ll never forgive those twunts at Yahoo.
Fuckers.
ASCII by Jason Scott / Yahoo!locaust
A viciously accurate assessment of Yahoo’s scorched earth policy towards our online collective culture:
All I can say, looking back, is that when history takes a look at the lives of Jerry Yang and David Filo, this is what it will probably say: Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the Internet, built a huge fucking lobster trap, absorbed as much of human history and creativity as they could, and destroyed all of it.
Yahoo! Accessibility
The website of the Yahoo accessibility team.
By Popular Demand, We’re Keeping the Term Extraction Service (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Good news, everyone. Yahoo aren't shutting down the term extractor API. Happy developer is happy. Now if only they save GeoCities...
yws-search-general : Message: Term Extraction and Contextual Web Search services to be discontinued
Crap. The very powerful term extractor API from Yahoo is being closed down. Sad developer is sad.
Will my site be archived? Yahoo! GeoCities Help
Archive.org is indexing Geocities sites (as it always has). Yahoo are going to fuck all about their users data/dreams/memories and Yahoo are going to do fuck all about the URLs.
Ugly and neglected fragments (Phil Gyford’s website)
Phil Gyford on why he will miss Geocities. "It’s only thanks to the efforts of people like the Internet Archive and Archive Team that we’ll have a record of what people, rather than companies, published in the past. As companies like Yahoo! switch off swathes of our online universe little fragments of our collective history disappear. They might be ugly and neglected fragments of our history but they’re still what got us where we are today."
openhacklondon | Open Hack 2009: London
The next Yahoo hackday will be on May 9th and 10th in Covent Garden. I've registered my interest. You should too.
YQL now supports microformats! (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Yahoo's RESTful query language can now parse microformats. This is excellent news ...although I'm personally finding it tough to wrap my head around the documentation. It's certainly trickier than hKit but then, it's almost certainly more powerful too.