Yahoo Takes Music Back To Its’ Roots

Yahoo’s new artist pages take the site back to it’s roots as a directory of content rather than a home for the content. Instead of hosting video, photos, and audio directly at Yahoo!, the content for each artist is aggregated from a host of other social media sites. You have the option to play full-length tracks [...]

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Tech Week in Review: NameChk, Yahoo Image Search, Meeting24.tv, Nomee, and Hunch

Namechk Ever wanted to check if your favorite username was available on over 80 different social services all at once? Well, now you can with Namechk. I was actually surprised by the results. I thought I pretty much had my brand on lock. I’ll need to sign up on a few services with the correct name [...]

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Interview with Yahoo Sr. Design Specialist Dee Adams

While recently attending the IA Summit in Memphis, I ran into Sr. Design Specialist Dee Adams of Yahoo! Inc. Aside from the coolness that she is an avid painter, lover of Opera, and recent Australian native, she also is responsible for the Flickr homepage redesign. Check out part 1 of the interview I did with her [...]

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Time Warner Splitting AOL, Preparing for Possible Sale

Time Warner Inc., announced that they will be splitting AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising business into separate divisions by early 2009. This announcement follows major budget cuts to AOL’s blogging properties as well as complete cuts of some of AOL’s products including; Bluestring, Xdrive and AOL Pictures, according to an internal memo from Kevin Conroy, [...]

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Peeps of the Web: Billy Johnson, Jr.

This week we spoke with Bill Johnson, Jr. Billy is the Senior Program Director - Urban at Yahoo! Music and was kind enough to take the time out to chat with us about what he does at Yahoo! He also gives some great tips on how to get hired at Yahoo! and how [...]

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04.18.08 webNews Wrap-up

Layoffs at AOL’s Platform A Technorati b5 media merger, goes kaput AOL buys Sphere Yahoo to offer free Analytics Suite Last but not least: Why is everyone (Mashable, RWW) doing “ways-not-to-pitch-to-us” posts this week?  We’ll take ‘em!

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04.11.08 webNews Wrap-up

Hulu will go international. Yahoo runs 2 week trial of Google AdSense in Yahoo search results. AOL launches Technology network. Yahoo Maps in living color. Google crawls HTML forms.

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