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What with all the news about Yahoo! laying off people, you could be forgiven for thinking that the company isn’t hiring. But in fact, it is. The company “de-invested” in several areas, but is increasing investment in others. Even the data team changed a number of projects, which impacted some people. But Y! is hiring, […]

Today Yahoo! and IndexTools announced that Yahoo! is acquiring IndexTools. Here is the official press release.
I’m really jazzed about it. IndexTools is a great group that’s been laser focused on the stuff that customers care about. They have a very practical attitude towards their products. Because they started in 2000, they learned […]

So I see the U.S. Government is showing off the new currency ..

Hey, they are using Yahoo! purple for the number. Coincidence? I’m just asking…

Another Emetrics has come and gone. Many of the Summit’s highlights have been presented in other blogs, but I did want to point out a few personal observations:
Big News and Rumors: Eric Peterson strikes out on his own, a new Google Analytics, and WebSideStory changes its name to Visual Sciences. But the biggest […]

I heard about this at work yesterday but hadn’t looked at it until this morning.
Yahoo! home page:

The beta version of AOL’s home page:

Classic. The AOL designers must be proud!

The Yahoo! CTO? No. Zod2008.com
Backgrounder, etc on generalzod.net

The problem with some of the “new Web” applications isn’t the application itself but the business model. Build an incremental feature, create some buzz in the echo chamber, and then sit back and wait for GAMEY (Google / AOL / Microsoft / eBay / Yahoo) to buy your company.
I suspect we all have some […]

Spent a good hour this morning reading Mini-Microsoft, a recent phenom that’s actually been around a while. The comments are the interesting stuff. I don’t really care about the innards of Microsoft, but it’s making me think about how Yahoo works, including SDS and my own group.
Sheesh, blog spam is way up this […]

Business Week observes that perhaps Web traffic volume isn’t always a key performance indicator. Witness HotJobs, a site with (according to the media research companies) declining web traffic. Olga Kharif finds that revenues are increasing.
What really matters?

I can’t escape the observation that a simple idea, executed well, can not only change the world (or a part of it), but can also be satisfying in so many ways (like financially). Witness Yahoo!’s acquisition of Flickr, Konfabulator, and upcoming.org. How long until somebody snaps up Ning? How about the […]

Go to Google and type in the name of Yahoo’s Chief Data Officer. Check out the sponsored link.

Today I went to log in to Yahoo Mail, and was greeted with this:

Why the heck would Yahoo! choose this image? And what does it have to do with viruses?

for the first time in a long time, I feel like I have some real competition.
Yeah, working at Yahoo! can be like that. There are lots of amazingly smart, talented people here. Welcome to Y!, Dean.
Sucks about the fender bender though.

“Why feel lucky when you can be right?”
Yahoo Instant Search

BusinessWeek online has an article about Larry Tesler, Yahoo’s new VP of User Experience, and the design of Yahoo’s front page.
It’s a perplexing read. For example, there’s the statement:
the front page has remained stagnant
Where apparently “stagnant” means unchanged since Sept 2004.
Contrast the “stagnant” quote with this one:
Yahoo researchers endlessly try to divine which are […]