Scott Yang's Playground

Just received an email about an upcoming meeting. Then I noticed that date of the meeting is… Monday 22nd of November, which was yesterday. So I thought it must have been a typo. It should have been 29th, which is next Monday! Then I looked at the email more carefully, and noted that it was [...]

DailySearchCast: Microsoft Wants to Buy Yahoo! Some of the best commentary from Danny Sullivan the Godfather of “search” on the whole Microsoft offering $45b to buy Yahoo event.

I did blogged about MyBlogLog back in October, didn’t I? Quite a few things happening afterwards. A few days after my previous “short review”, I actually deleted my account there, because I just cannot stand their aggressive tracking script that “rings home” whenever someone clicks on some links. I guess that is why they are [...]

Simon of the Django fame has put together Python Developer Centre for Yahoo! Developer Network. Many useful articles on how to access Yahoo’s API with Python, and hopefully there will be more upcoming.

Yahoo! UI Library, recently released by Yahoo! under BSD license, is quite a shining piece of web development toolkit. It has all the nifty Javascript utility functions/classes to build your next Web 2.0 application, in a similar fashion to other toolkits like Script.aculo.us or Rico, but backed by one of the largest company on the [...]

Jeremy Zawodny looked at October search engine referrals to his site, and try to make sense why Google refers significantly more visitors to his site than Yahoo! or MSN, especially when the statistics released by search engines were actually comparable. He concluded that: There are two ways I can think to explain this: People who [...]

Yahoo! Search Web Services. Somehow Yahoo! suddenly has became the “good guy” again, while the “do good” Google falls to the dark side. Jeremy Zawodny commented on how WordPress.org now uses Yahoo to back its site-wide search. It would be interesting to play around the API, or replace the default WP search engine with Yahoo’s [...]

Yahoo! has released “My Web” as Beta, which integrates a nice social bookmark interface. For more information see the feature list. Maybe it’ll replace my del.icio.us and BlogMarks account.

One thing I really liked about Yahoo! 360 (ask me for an invite if you have not got one) is its implementation of access control. You can choose from multiple level of privacy for different sections of your Yahoo! 360. For example, you might want everyone on 360 to see your real name, restrict your [...]

Thanks to Oliver T for inviting me into testing out the Yahoo! 360 beta. I haven’t had a chance to dip into it yet, but after a brief looking around, Y! 360 certainly looks very polished. While blog integrated social networking sites have been done to death over the last couple of years (I am [...]

9:30pm at night and got an ICQ message from Wilson, asking whether I have noticed that Yahoo is now labeling my server as bulk mail sender. So immediately I tested sending different messasges (all legitimate with non-spammy content), originated from different domains to one of my Yahoo account, and everyone of them landed in the [...]

Yahoo! has launched its MovableType powered blogsite on its search technology. Sounds like Yahoo! is striking back. Well, in this era we all think that Google is the bad guy, and Yahoo! is the underdog. How things have changed! So far this month Google still brings me significantly more traffic than Yahoo! (Google 5254, Yahoo! [...]

Yahoo! bought web-based e-mail application start up company, Oddpost. You can do a lot of things with Javascript and DHTML, and what Oddpost has done is nothing new. Doing it to be compatible with all major browsers (IE, Moz, Opera, Safari), however, is another story. But why oh why, would Yahoo! buy something like that?

一搜 or Yisou.com – Yahoo’s Chinese search engine. Two things. (1) Big portal Yahoo! is moving back to simpler interface. (2) Mainland China is a big market, and Yahoo! surely knows that! Update: URL fixed.

Via Jeremy Zawodny, Yahoo! has announced their anti-spam technology, DomainKeys. DomainKeys is a technology proposal that can bring black and white back to this decision process by giving email providers a mechanism for verifying both the domain of each email sender and the integrity of the messages sent (i.e,. that they were not altered during [...]