NotesWhen Pipes first appeared, it seemed as if the geeks were interested in building tools that increased opportunities to engage in programming the web, using the web.
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NotesYou can download your Pipe definition by specifying your Pipe-ID (_id) and the output format (_out=json) to the following end-point: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.infoUnfurl
NotesYahoo Inc. has been quietly trying to find a way out of its struggling Web-search partnership with Microsoft Corp., a person familiar the situation said, but has so far failed in that effort.Unfurl
NotesOf course there’s a well known group of people that have made something of an art out of saving disappearing internet data — the Archive Team, headed by computer historian Jason Scott. Unfurl
NotesThis stuff matters. If we want to be the profession that leads the way in understanding and interpreting the past, we should be part of this conversation, or at the very least learn and see how we can help out. I should note here, quickly, that I know there are historians who care. I follow them on Twitter and they’re awesome. But they’re a small minority of the profession, and that needs to change. This doesn’t just affect digital historians, it affects historians. Our very profession.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesYahoo has the opportunity to make Flickr the photo-sharing site on the Web. And if it continues to innovate and update the service, Flickr could even become the next Flickr.EmbedUnfurl
NotesQuicken Loans has started the website www.valleytodetroit.com to promote the Motor City to Yahoo workers axed last week. Quicken’s businesses include mortgages, venture capital and sports graphics.FeedUnfurl
NotesOn Wednesday, Yahoo launched a virtual newsstand atop its site — dubbed Livestand — and Manhattan will provide a means of building digital publications for this service. But developers will also have the freedom to run their apps wherever they like. The only restriction is that applications must be built with standard web technologies.
Early next year, before the arrival of Manhattan, Yahoo will open-source a programming platform dubbed “Mojito.” Based on a widely used open source project known as Node.js, Mojito will allow developers to build entire applications with JavaScript, the web’s standard scripting language. Typically, JavaScript is used to build an application’s front end — the bit that runs on the user’s device — but with Node.js and Mojito, you can also use JavaScript on the back end — the bit that runs on the server.Unfurl
Notes"An online debate has already begun about various ways that Delicious might be “saved”. As someone who was on the inside for a while and who wants very much to see Delicious live on, I thought I’d chime in"FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes...and until you figure out that "somehow", you're just going to do it again and keep on doing it. "Bartz admitted that "we had kind of lost your respect" over the past few years. "We are a 14-year-old Internet company that somehow got boring.""Unfurl
Notes"We're happy to announce support for the OpenID OAuth Hybrid Protocol, which combines OpenID authentication (sign in) with OAuth authorization (access control) in a single interface. The Hybrid Protocol makes it easy for the hundreds of millions of Yahoo! users to sign into websites with a Yahoo! account, and to enable two-way data sharing of their Profile, Contacts, and Updates, without having to register a new site-specific account or share their Yahoo! password."Unfurl
NotesInjury, or a normal condition of working at Yahoo!? "I got a piece of glass out of my foot this morning and it started bleeding but the blood was purple! Not dark red, it was actually purple! After I cleaned it and put pressure on it it marblized into a bluish colour then went back to red. What just happened?"Unfurl
NotesWelcome aboard, Dave! "Today I said my good-byes to Delicious.com and Yahoo! and tonight I went to the Addons Meetup @ Mozilla to get a sneak peak at what I'll be working on in less than two weeks. ... I'm also happy to be joining an organization where everything is open sourced and available for comment. So I'm hoping to post a lot more on some of the cool tricks I do at Mozilla"Unfurl
Notes"Below are the 13 facets of openness that I’ve been cataloging as a means to better describe this term. (They range on a scale starting on the technology side and ending on the side of the user’s experience.)"FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"A presentation about tricks and best practice ideas of how to use JavaScript given in our office in India as part of an internal training."Unfurl
Notes"yesterday we put jumpcut into a long deep sleep. well sort of. we disabled uploads so you can’t upload any more clips which means you can’t do anymore editing, which is the whole point of the site. you can still watch the videos you’ve created in the past but that’s about it. these are sad times. some of our jumpcut family got laid off last week and now jumpcut is in this sad state. this is what a whole lotta work, a whole lotta fun has become. it’s sad"Unfurl
Notes""I'll just get straight to the point. You've been affected by the layoffs." ... I watched as my access to various parts of the guts of Flickr fell away. I noticed how naturally I searched for any and all bits I could think of, just in the hope that it still existed. But no. I was shut out entirely within about 14 hours of the phone call. ... I was beginning to feel humiliated, particularly given what I was up to. You know, being in Taiwan at an international conference to talk about my work."FeedUnfurl
NotesYes, unexpected lucidity from Valleywag, but this is why it's so sad: "Yahoo, meanwhile, sees a place for human beings in a future media landscape that is increasingly automated. That's why the emotion that Yahoo attracts isn't anger, but sadness; not rage, but disappointment. Yahoo could be so much better than it is, if only it weren't saddled with visionless leaders, subpar management, and a do-nothing board."Unfurl
Notes"That’s right! As mentioned in their YUIDoc announcement, Yahoo’s User Interface Library is now hosted publicly on GitHub at http://github.com/yui."Unfurl
Notes"Google and Yahoo! (and likely Microsoft to follow) are ultimately competing with one another to become the branded single sign-on solution for the web. The good news for users is that by using the same underlying technology, most relying parties will able to turn on support for any new OpenID provider fairly easily. The bad news for users is that since none of the major providers are also relying parties, using services at each of these site still requires multiple accounts. Further, a sign in box with 100 different logos for 100 different providers isn’t a great user experience."FeedUnfurl
Notes"I finally got a new mattress so I want to get rid of my old one. Its too heavy to carry downstairs so I was going to burn it right in the room. How do I prevent from the whole house burning down? I set it in the middle of the room and away from the walls and the walls are covered in foil. Should this be good enough?"Unfurl
NotesI'm on pretty much the same page as Joshua. I was amazed it launched, which is a credit to the remaining team of heroes. It'll be interesting to see what happens now—given a 2-3 year innovation time-debt, a brand-new bespoke infrastructure, and a load of enqueued we'll-fix-it-laters. Selected joshu quotes: "I think the open question now is whether the remaining team will be able to innovate or be stuck in complicated codebase hell. ... I have significant regret over what ended up happening with Delicious. We could have gone so much farther. ... engineering was focused on the rewrite so nobody had time to replace the old search engine ... They had the technology, but the relevant staff had higher priorities."Unfurl
NotesHey, Delicious should finally do something like this: "When a MyBlogLog visitor visits a site with the plug-in running, the system looks at the tags that user provided for their interests when they created their MyBlogLog account. It then finds blog posts with the same categories or tags and serves them up in a widget. "Unfurl
Notes"To me this is a great moment as I spent virtually all of the last 18 months preparing for this launch. While I did my best to make sure that my absence didn’t affect the launch, I still wondered if there was some loose end that I forgot to tie. If there was, someone must have caught it because the entire thing unfolded beautifully!"Unfurl
Notes"I have no idea why Yahoo took so long to beat the ugly out of delicious. I’m just glad they didn’t beat the good stuff out in the process."Unfurl
Notes"Unfortunately, this is a loss for Yahoo! who needs forward-thinking leaders like Chad who can make things happen. Retention must be top of mind at Yahoo! before key institutional knowledge slips out the door and forces people to rethink things that haveFeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Yahoo! is best when it's a Fast Follower, innovating on the back end and letting other companies try to figure out the next best thing, and either buying/integrating or duplicating those services once the market has been created."FeedUnfurl
Notes"I have come to realize that management does not seem to fully understand how to run a fucking taco truck, much less an actual, you know, $30 billion business."Unfurl
Notes"It’s unfortunately sad but true that such a headline is more shocking at this point. The big name Yahoo departure announcements just continue to roll in."Unfurl
Notes"The development of the new version of delicious seems to have almost stalled within Yahoo, and Joshua cited recent frustrations with the process as playing a part in his resignation."FeedEmbedUnfurl
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