Learning from Marissa Mayer and Yahoo!
I’ve just finished reading a book about Yahoo! and its current CEO, Marissa Mayer. A fairly slim tome, I got through it in a day on my Kindle. It’s well worth a look for anyone interesting in how technology…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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When clouds don’t taste so delicious
There appears to be a considerable amount of uncertainty about the future of Delicious, the web’s preeminent social bookmarking service. Not sure what social bookmarking is? Here’s a video: It seems a shame that Yahoo! have been unable to…
Bookmarks for August 11th through August 18th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. OnePeople › Open source matters to open government. Really. – "Both DiMaio and Caudill make the mistake of believing that open source is about making cheap bits. Instead, it’s a…
Bookmarks for May 14th through June 2nd
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. TWiki – the Open Source Enterprise Wiki – "A flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application platform." How digital engagement can save councils…
Yahoo! Launch Fire Eagle
Yahoo! have launched Fire Eagle, a ‘geo-location platform’. Covering the launch, TechCrunch says: Fire Eagle allows users to syndicate their positional data to any partner service after updating from a supported device or website. This means that after sending a…
Microsoft/Yahoo! Roundup
Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been reading around the web about the proposed Microsoft purchase of Yahoo! There’s some interesting commentary out there. Jeff Jarvis at Guardian Unlimited: This is just as well for Yahoo, which had no strategy,…
Microsoft to buy Yahoo!?
Wow, major news breaking on the horizon. Microsoft have offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has played a pioneering role by building…