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Yahoo Pipes provides an interactive, web-based way to manipulate information from the web in order to create custom feeds and web apps. With its graph-based, Lego-like GUI you can pull data from RSS sources, Flickr, Yahoo search, arbitrary web pages, and more. Pipes lets you comb through that data, mash up information from any number [...]

Yahoo Glue, a new search results page design that the company has been testing in India, is rolling out to the US market. You can view it at glue.yahoo.com, although Yahoo says it is rolling out in stages, so sit tight if you don’t see it. For the US, Yahoo is starting with a limited [...]

Yahoo BrowserPlus, the technology platform from Yahoo that lets desktop and web applications interact, is going open source. The company announced the plans on its blog, indicating they hope the move “will allow developers to rapidly extend the platform in a distributed fashion” and “ensure BrowserPlus stays a secure, robust platform running on all popular [...]

Expect Yahoo’s share price to jump today – Jerry Yang will be stepping down as CEO of the company, a job that he took on an interim basis in June 2007. Yang will return to his former role as Chief Yahoo, and will remain on the board of directors. The company has hired executive search [...]

Earlier this year, as Yahoo fought off an acquisition attempt by Microsoft, it began to entertain a search advertising deal with Google. They even even went so far as to conduct a live trial of such a measure. Now the two Internet giants have effectively terminated the effort. Read more on Mashable

In spite of – or perhaps due to – its ongoing trials and tribulations, Yahoo! has done an admirable job of remaining on track with plans to open its platform to the developer community – plans that could mean the survival of a company that is among the old guard of the Web as we [...]

During the Microhoo debacle, everyone was wondering who was going to buy Yahoo. While all eyes were on that, Yahoo has been quietly going about its business. Their business now seems to be wanting to become the platform that everyone develops for, and that initiative is called Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS). In the past few [...]

Yahoo Inc. executives provided an update on the company’s plans to open its online services — including its home page and email service — to contributions from third-party Internet and software companies. Opening up Yahoo’s sites and technology has been an important pillar of Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang’s strategy to turn around the [...]

Marc Canter is writing a book, called ‘How to build the Open Mesh. He’s just posted the four Appendices that conclude the book in his blog. It’s a great overview of the major web platforms: Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft Mesh, and Facebook/MySpace. Here are his comments: Appendix – A What does Google’s Open Mesh look like? [...]

Yahoo has adopted an open strategy with the following idea in mind: woo developers to build on top of your technology, and then display your advertisements to more eyeballs throughout the long tail of the web. Yahoo takes a large step in that direction by announcing a radical and historical initiative called BOSS, which stands [...]