Monday, June 1, 2009

Yahoo 360 shut down

On July 13, 2009, the Yahoo will officially close Yahoo! 360° to focus their efforts on making your new profile on Yahoo! the place where you connect with the people who matter to you most.

You have time before July 13, 2009 to archive and move your 360° information to your computer and to your profile on Yahoo!.

Your profile on Yahoo! will accept your blog and you can re-establish your friends through Yahoo! Contacts. In addition, your profile supports:

Nickname
Status
Your profile doesn’t support:

Mature content
Blast
Your 360° inbox
Testimonials
Friend categories
Local reviews
RSS feeds
Tags
Custom themes
You can save some of this information to your computer, such as mature content and your inbox message (you’ll have to cut and paste these into a file).

After July 13, 2009, your content on Yahoo! 360° will no longer be accessible.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Yahoo Buzzlog Top 20

Rank Prev. Subject (Days on Chart) Move Score Rank Subject 1-Day Move
1 3 Portia de Rossi (2) +221 420 1 Emilie De Ravin 17912%
2 - Emilie De Ravin (1) +199 200 2 Kim Yun-jin 3027%
3 12 Leelee Sobieski (2) +52 97 3 Maggie Grace 1565%
4 19 Erika Eleniak (2) +44 80 4 Evangeline Lilly 453%
5 8 Angelina Jolie (1441) +7 71 5 Elizabeth Mitchell 384%
6 6 Jessica Alba (1342) -2 68 6 Shirley Maclaine 376%
7 38 Ellen Barkin (2) +29 50 7 Josh Brolin 338%
8 16 Megan Fox (433) +5 50 8 Emily Deschanel 327%
9 17 Jennifer Lopez (148) +6 48 9 Dakota Fanning 305%
10 10 Lindsay Lohan (1233) -9 47 10 Josh Lucas 284%
11 - Evangeline Lilly (1) +36 45 11 Hilary Swank 282%
12 4 Eva Mendes (560) -47 42 12 Maria Bello 268%
13 18 Robert Pattinson (45) +0 40 13 Maggie Gyllenhaal 213%
14 41 Nicole Eggert (2) +18 38 14 Amy Adams 204%
15 20 Miley Cyrus (569) +2 38 15 Marisa Coughlan 202%
16 22 Jessica Biel (565) +1 35 16 Elisabeth Shue 200%
17 - Maggie Grace (1) +33 35 17 Josh Peck 169%
18 21 Pamela Anderson (1820) +0 34 18 Mira Sorvino 163%
19 - Kim Yun-jin (1) +32 33 19 Bruce Campbell 163%
20 24 Jennifer Aniston (148) +0 33 20 Brian Austin Green 156%

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Carol Bartz

Carol A. Bartz (born August 29, 1948 in Winona, Minnesota) is the CEO of Yahoo! and was previously the Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk from 1992 until 2009.

After college, Bartz worked at 3M, but left after a request to transfer to the headquarters was denied. She has previously worked at Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Bartz became CEO of Autodesk in 1992. According to Forbes, "Since 1992, Bartz, 56, has transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders." She is credited with instituting and promoting Autodesk's "3F" or "fail-fast forward" concept -- the idea that you engineer a company to fail in certain missions, to be resilient to failure, and to respond to it by overcoming quickly.

On January 13, 2009, Bartz was named the CEO of Yahoo!, succeeding co-founder Jerry Yang. In a conference call with financial analysts, she announced that she intended to make sure Yahoo got "some friggin' breathing room" so the company could "kick some butt.".

She serves on the boards of directors of Intel, Cisco Systems, NetApp, and the Foundation for the National Medals of Science.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Yahoo! Music

Yahoo! Music, owned by Yahoo!, is the provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming.

Yahoo! Music began as "LAUNCH", a website and magazine produced by LAUNCH Media which Yahoo! acquired for USD$12 million in 2001. LAUNCH was later rebranded as "Yahoo! Music", then simply "Y! Music" in February 2005. LAUNCH's LAUNCHcast Internet radio and music video offerings were integrated into Yahoo!'s site along with artist profiles containing an extensive selection of music and biographical information.

Yahoo! Music was the number one online music site in terms of audience reach and total time spent in March 2007.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Yahoo! Messenger

Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories. Yahoo chat rooms have become almost useless due to "bots"--automated clients offering female sexual services to the male members of the chat room.

Yahoo! Messenger was originally launched under the name Yahoo! Pager on 1998-03-09.

In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of famous cartoons such as Garfield or Dilbert), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages. It was also the first major IM client to feature BUZZing and music-status. Another recently added feature is customized avatars.