ycorpblog.com - 10/28/2008
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Back in April, we rolled out our vision for a more open Yahoo! — with “open” defined as rewiring Yahoo! so we could 1) open our network to outside innovation, 2) unlock the power of your social relationships, and 3) mesh your Yahoo! experience with other sites to bring you the best of the ...
online.wsj.com - 10/31/2008
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online.wsj.com —
The prospects for a Web-advertising partnership between Google
Inc. and Yahoo Inc. have dimmed, with both sides
considering walking away from the deal as early as next week, say people familiar with the matter. The two companies met Thursday with the ...
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Odds Dim for Alliance of Google And Yahoo
developer.yahoo.net - 10/28/2008
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developer.yahoo.net —
Earlier this month, we introduced a revamped universal
profile to all Yahoo! users – but that was
just the tip of the iceberg. With the new profile page, you got a peek at our open vision, but today’s Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) 1.0 platform launch ...
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Introducing Y!OS 1.0 - live today!
bloomberg.com - 10/29/2008
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bloomberg.com —
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. handled a
larger chunk of U.S. Internet searches last month while
Microsoft Corp. lost market share, according to researcher ComScore Inc. Yahoo had about 20.2 percent of queries in September, up from 19.6 percent ...
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Yahoo Gains Internet Search Share; Microsoft Loses ...
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Yahoo Opens Up Big Time
TechCrunch —
... they would) under the Y!OS 1.0 platform. It’s kind of like a Web OS, but Y!OS officially stands for Yahoo Open Strategy. Yahoo’s Jay Rossiter explains in a blog post some of the things that the Y!OS will let people do. These include: ...
Yahoo Introduces Social Developer Platform
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , a set of programming resources to help developers to build social applications for use on Yahoo. "At a high level, we're rolling out a social platform that will draw on the hundreds of millions of connections on Yahoo -- everything from random encounters with someone who commented on the same photo as you, to deep connections you have with friends who know nearly everything about you," said Jay Rossiter, head of Yahoo Open Strategy, in a blog post . "By using the social contacts you already have on Yahoo -- through Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Finance, Fantasy Sports, etc. -- ...
Yahoo! Launches Facebook Connect Competitor
SocialTimes.com —
... A few months back, Yahoo! announced that it would be opening up the site’s services to developers in a significant way. This afternoon the company rolled out a big iteration which has a massive social component. The service has a bunch of features that developers can use to detect any individual web user’s “social presence”. So what are the new component of this open platform and what does it mean for developers? ...
Yahoo! Opens Y!OS to Developers
ReadWriteWeb —
... team officially throws open the gates to a newly rewired and open Yahoo!, providing developers with unprecedented access to Yahoo!'s network and social data. ...
Yahoo! Opens its 'Open Strategy' Platform to Developers
AppScout —
Several months after it joined Google's OpenSocial program, Yahoo! has officially opened its platform to developers.
"As of today, developers can start using our newly available data on their own web sites and even start deploying new applications into Yahoo," Jay Rossiter, senior vice president of the Yahoo Open Strategy (Y!OS), wrote in a blog post.
"Most obvious will be the social aspects," Rossiter wrote. "At a high level, we're rolling out a social platform that will draw on the hundreds of millions of connections on Yahoo--everything from random encounters with someone who commented on the same photo as you, to ...
Yahoo Plans to Launch a Mail App Platform [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... as part of its Yahoo Open strategy. The launch of the Mail-as-a-platform would help the company fully realize its Inbox 2.0 vision. ...
Yahoo rolls out updates to ‘Mail, My Yahoo, Toolbar’ & more
D' Technology Weblog —
... several updates to its online products, as a part of new Yahoo! Open Strategy. These enhancements covers Yahoo! Mail, My Yahoo, Yahoo! Toolbar and Yahoo! Updates. ...
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