Category Archives: yahoo

2007, 2009

Various links: academia online, sustainability of digital projects, LC and Cloud storage, web tools & more

robinna/ July 20, 2009/ media, XHTML/XML/CSS, web 2.0+, yahoo/ 0 comments

Link roundup… Lots to read and consider and ponder…. Very cool…Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.http://academicearth.org/ a multi-year, international exploration of the strategies being used to support digital initiatives over the long term.http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/strategy/ithaka-case-studies-in-sustainability Social networking site for researchers aims to make academic papers a thing of the pasthttp://www.physorg.com/news166943362.html LC tests cloud storagehttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10286280-62.html Yahoo pipes… if you haven’t

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0511, 2007

google vs. yahoo (interesting little visual)

robinna/ November 5, 2007/ tools/tips, web 2.0+, yahoo/ 0 comments

Sometimes I find the most interesting things on the internet… A cliché true, but I found this little google vs. yahoo comparison today. I’ve no idea of its accuracy (but I would think it probably is), but a very neat little tool to compare results ranking for a particular term in yahoo vs. google.

0610, 2007

Speed up your website!

robinna/ October 6, 2007/ webdesign, tools/tips, web 2.0+, yahoo/ 0 comments

For those of you who create websites, here is an interesting article about speeding up websites (and a free little tool, too!): ySlow a firebug/firefox plug-in: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/Most of the rules revolve around making sure the browser doesn’t haveto work too hard to load and display your Web pages, particularly bymaking maximum use of the browser cache. That’s where your browserstores

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2408, 2007

Yahoo photos is closing

robinna/ August 24, 2007/ social media, web 2.0+, yahoo/ 0 comments

Well, I guess it’s no surprise to me. Flickr is superior… ——————We will officially close Yahoo! Photos on Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 9 p.m. PDT. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to move to another photo sharing service (Flickr, KODAK Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, or Photobucket). We’re making the transfer real simple, and with a couple clicks we’ll

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1302, 2007

some kind of new stuff from yahoo…

robinna/ February 13, 2007/ social media, Leadership, web 2.0+, Search engines/browsers, networking, yahoo/ 0 comments

yahoo pipes (rss feed & aggregator)http://pipes.yahoo.com/ and 360 which seems set to take on umm. myspace(? facebook?)http://360.yahoo.com/ …and then there is new aol video website which also has taken the place of the wonderful multimedia search engine, singing fish. From what I’ve read elsewhere, singingfish was purchased by aol in 2003, but they have just recently taken down the whole

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