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| Apr 6, 2021 | Yahoo Answers to end as Trump fans see plot to “silence conservatives” | Enlarge
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| Dec 8, 2016 | Yahoo officially launches its Yahoo Answers Q&A mobile app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Yahoo has officially launched a mobile app version of its Q&A product. Called Yahoo Answers Now, it’s available on iOS and Android ... |
| Aug 29, 2016 | Why Some Women Don't Feel Pleasure During Sex | If you scour the internet for sex stuff as much as I do, you come across countless pleas from women who "don't feel anything" when they have sex. Most of these women are new to partnered sex, but some of them have been going at it... |
| Jul 13, 2016 | Facebook lifts the veil on its mobile device testing lab | Earlier this week, Facebook gave a small group of reporters a tour of its Prineville, OR data center. In the process, the company also showed off its mobile device lab for testing on physical devices new iOS and Android versions of the Face... |
| Jun 20, 2016 | Using social media to prevent adolescent suicide | Distraught over a poor grade that she thought would ruin her life, the honor-roll student broadcast her suicide for anyone to see. Hours later, she was in the inpatient psychiatric unit where I work, thanks to the quick thinking and action ... |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Hvornår mister man sin mødom som lesbisk? | Denne artikel blev oprindeligt udgivet af Broadly USA
Det kommer formentlig ikke som nogen overraskelse for Broadlys læsere, at det meste af verden er centreret omkring mænd. Manden Jacques Derrida har endda opfundet et ord for det: phalloc... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | How Lesbians Lose Their Virginity | It should come as no surprise to Broadly readers that most of the world is organized around men. A man, Jacques Derrida, even created the word to express the idea: phallogocentrism.
In short, the phallus defines the world, and for millennia... |
| May 13, 2016 | Australian Firefighters Cut a Spanner Off a Man's Penis With an Angle Grinder | A ring spanner, according to the internet's oracle Yahoo Answers, should be used to tighten and/or loosen nuts and/or bolts.
It should never under any circumstances, according to anybody with a sense of self-preservation, be slipped onto on... |
| Jul 17, 2015 | Yahoo Quietly Launches A New “Video Texting” Mobile Messaging App On iTunes | Yahoo has been rumored to be working on a revamped messenger app for a while now, and it looks like that new app may be taking its first step into the wild. Yahoo has quietly released the next version of its Yahoo Messenger mobile applicati... |
| May 21, 2015 | Got Google Fiber And Downloaded Illegal Content? You Might Be Receiving Notice For Piracy Fines | Anu Passary, Tech Times 21 May 2015, 09:05 am
Are you among the lucky few who have access to super speedy Internet thanks to Google Fiber being available in your area? Have you been taking advantage of the service to download illegal conten... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | Mobile Web Surfers Again Facing Unexpected Redirects To App Store, Native Apps | Remember the early days of web surfing? You’d be happily browsing through your favorite sites, clicking links – then, boom! – your screen was littered with pop-up advertisements! The problem became so prevalent, people began installing pop-... |
| Nov 14, 2014 | The hard truth about startups in Australia | Startups are a bit of a thing in Australia right now. You probably know or have heard of someone who has recently become involved with a startup – or may even be that person, yourself.
It is no big surprise, considering the steady decline o... |
| Aug 6, 2014 | Addictive App 'Pyne' Lets You Ask Thousands of People Whatever You Want | (Photo via Scott Cresswell)
We all have questions, and these days, it’s the masses on the Internet that we go to for answers. Crowd-sourced Wikipedia is allegedly replacing our need to remember anything and social networks are many kids’ fi... |
| Aug 5, 2014 | Minor League Baseball Wants to Speed Things Up | This weekend, the Atlantic League—an independent baseball league with teams with nicknames like Revolution, Riversharks, and Skeeters—began experimenting with a series of new rules. The rules, which went into effect on August 1, are intende... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | The Story Of Slenderman, The Internet’s Own Monster | Every generation creates its own monsters. Folk tales tell of witches and wyrms in the woods, my TV-infused generation feared Jaws in lakes and Bloody Mary in the mirror. This generation gets its monsters from the Internet.
Slenderman is a ... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | Inside Jobs: What Exactly Does It Mean To Be A ‘Solutions Architect’? | Some jobs have names that make it pretty easy to understand what they do: Airplane pilot, waitress, doctor, shoe salesman. But in today’s tech industry, there are a lot of job titles that are far from self-explanatory.
In this episode of In... |
| May 14, 2014 | Ask Pinterest Anything? Site Tests Q&A Feature | Jelly, Quora, Yahoo (sometimes to absurd ends), and others have looked to question-and-answer services as a way to boost user engagement and advance conversations. Now another player could be entering the fray: Pinterest has confirmed to us... |
| Feb 24, 2014 | How The Visual Web Could Achieve Its Potential | This post is presented by CIBC.
From today’s vantage point, it looks like nothing will slow the momentum of the Visual Web.
See also: The Triumph Of The Visual Web
Selfies, pins, memes, and other picture formats are now dominating our once ... |
| Feb 6, 2014 | Sometimes It Pays to Be A Jerk | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The concepts in my Lean LaunchPad curriculum can be taught in a variety of classes–as an introduction to entrepreneurship all the way to a graduate level “capstone class.”
I r... |
| Jan 22, 2014 | Jelly’s Novelty Wears Off, But Long-Term Potential For A Mobile #Lazyweb Remains | Let’s get this out of the way up front: I was prepared to dislike Jelly after its reveal. After all, when Twitter co-founder Biz Stone described the new startup as experiment designed to “make the world a more empathetic place,” – yes, a mo... |
| Jan 6, 2014 | Shady App Install Ads Are Automatically Redirecting Mobile Users To App Store, Google Play | For many weeks now, mobile users on both iOS and Android have been encountering a problem where visits to certain websites and apps have automatically redirected them to the platform’s app store to download various games. The issue involves... |
| Jan 6, 2014 | Why Pinterest Needs To Upgrade Visual Search Stat | Pinterest isn’t a social network. It’s a visual search engine. And its latest purchase of Visual Graph further proves its growing self-awareness of this fact.
Millions use Pinterest to curate appealing images by designating them to specific... |
| Dec 6, 2013 | Overrun With Messaging Apps | Because I’ll install almost any app on my iPhone just to take a look, I’ve got a jam-packed folder called “messaging apps” that’s now five pages deep. It includes only the big names, regional giants, and those newer arrivals buzzy enough to... |
| Oct 13, 2013 | Fifteen Years On, Pokemon Still Holds Power Over This Thirty-Something | While iPhone launch days and big gadget reveals represent some of my most anticipated events because I’m a tech blogger, a day like today can still awaken just as much excitement. Today is the launch day of a new Pokemon game, you see – the... |
| Jul 17, 2013 | Social polling app Loop raises $450K to be Yahoo! Answers on steroids | Many of us reach out to our friends and family or even random people on the Internet when trying to answer a personal question.
Now one Seattle startup wants to make that process easier with an app that gives you feedback on questions, whet... |
| Jun 5, 2013 | Is There A God? Crowdsourcing The Really Big Questions | Technology enables our work, connects our world and changes our lives. So far, however, it has failed to definitively answer life’s big questions, like:
Is there a God?
Are we alone in the universe?
What’s the best superpower to have?
Where... |
| May 9, 2013 | Actually, Snapchat Photos Are Just As Deleted As Any Other File You Trash | Though Snapchat has been picked on, picked apart, and blown up in the media, the technical aspects of the service are still somewhat mysterious to the average user. A new research report from a company called Decipher Forensics is looking t... |
| May 8, 2013 | CrowdMed Wants To Crowdsource Your Medical Care To Strangers | Would you trust the “wisdom of the crowd” over your own doctor? CrowdMed thinks you might. The San Francisco start-up has an audacious plan to use crowdsourcing techniques to tap the “collective wisdom” of strangers to help diagnose patient... |
| Mar 1, 2013 | Yahoo Does Some Spring Cleaning: Shuts Down Avatars, App Search, Sports IQ, Clues, Updates API And Its BlackBerry App | Yahoo, which is now officially a technology company, just announced a Google-like spring cleaning campaign. Just like Larry Page started shutting down a number of under-performing Google properties when he took over from Eric Schmidt, Yahoo... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | Pure Scamming Copyright Troll Implies It's A Gov't Agency And That You Will Face Jail Time If You Don't Pay Up | We’ve seen some pretty brazen copyright trolling efforts lately, but this latest one may be the most extreme. FightCopyrightTrolls has the story of the “Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency,” which has some features like a normal copyr... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | Scammers Extort BitTorrent Users Posing as Law Enforcement | Over the years we have seen plenty of scam artists trying to make a few bucks off BitTorrent users and other file-sharers, but the stunt that’s being pulled off by the “Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency” tops them all.
Disguised as ... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | The Teeny, Tiny Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter Is Available For Pre-Order | A few weeks ago the Crazyflie Nano captured our collective imaginations by winging its way around an open plan office and looking like a cross between a hummingbird and the robotic butterfly that steals things in Dora the Explorer. The tiny... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | Which One Of These Do I Have To Spill Water On To Make People Irrationally Start Buying $FB? | Those eighteen words got a founder and I kicked off of the trading floor of the NYSE earlier this evening. Because, as we shuffled out of the Girls Who Code event held there earlier tonight, we looked at the jumble of computers and stock ti... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Apple is to Request 3 Billion in Damages
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Search | Samsung earlier confirmed that it will move immediately to file post-verdict motions to overturn the controversial verdict.
Legal officials told The Korean Times that Apple's request is expected to further the controversy as, if accepted by... |
| Sep 14, 2012 | Impatient to get launched? Here’s how to quick-start a product business | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Aug 13, 2012 | Author Fights For His Book On The Internet After Slacking Student Pleads For A Quick Summary | You never know who you’ll meet on the internet. Maybe it’s the Craigslist killer, or maybe it’s the author of a book you need to read for your summer school assignment. For Yahoo! user ♥ Idiot America ~ ϟƘƦІןן∑x ♥, the latter held true. He ... |
| Jul 31, 2012 | Welcome To The New And Improved Yahoo Mail. And It’s Crashing. | Yahoo Mail users were surprised today by an upgrade that never went through, blocking them from accessing their inbox. Hundreds of users have taken to Yahoo Answers to try to figure out what’s happening.
Yahoo user “Brad” started a popular ... |
| Apr 19, 2012 | Carsabi points the way forward for buying a used car online | Buying a used car online can be frustrating reader comments 35 with 31 posters participating, including story author
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| Apr 18, 2012 | 10 Yahoo services that should be killed by Scott Thompson’s restructuring plan | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Yahoo has been scrambling in recent years to stay... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | 10 Yahoo services that should be killed by Scott Thompson’s restructuring plan | Yahoo has been scrambling in recent years to stay relevant and competitive while Google grows into a dominating search and social company. With the company’s paltry first quarter earnings increase, the once-powerful search engine plans to s... |
| Apr 2, 2012 | Updated: Has Dating Site Badoo Found A Love Match In The Form Of Hot or Not? | Maybe even dating sites deserve to find a special someone at one point in their lives… it looks like Badoo, the UK-based dating site, has joined forces with U.S. rival Hot or Not, with Badoo inking a white-label deal to power the smaller si... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | Yahoo Loses Noted Chief Scientist to Microsoft | News Yahoo Loses Noted Chief Scientist to Microsoft By Gladys RamaMarch 20, 2012
Former Yahoo chief scientist Raghu Ramakrishnan has joined Microsoft as a Technical Fellow within the Server and Tools Business (STB), Redmond announced this w... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | Yahoo Loses Noted Chief Scientist to Microsoft | News Yahoo Loses Noted Chief Scientist to Microsoft By Gladys RamaMarch 20, 2012
Former Yahoo chief scientist Raghu Ramakrishnan has joined Microsoft as a Technical Fellow within the Server and Tools Business (STB), Redmond announced this w... |
| Mar 13, 2012 | This Week in Balls - March 13, 2012 | Not everyone has the time or the inclination to follow sports full-time, or even real-time. Thankfully, we’ve combed the latest, greatest, and worst stories from the world of sports this past week—college basketball tourney week, more footb... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Xbox Live users unable to get online, linked to new dashboard update | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
[Update: at 1245 am Dec. 7 — Access to Xbox Live restored. Some features such as Zune and Xbox Live Marketplace having difficulties.]
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| Oct 11, 2011 | Biolectrics developing pain-free severe gingivitis treatment device | The company appears to have a large potential market for its periodontitis treatment device. Advanced gum disease affects between 4 and 12 percent of U.S. adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Once it rolls ou... |
| Sep 26, 2011 | HealthTap’s social network of 5,000 doctors is ready to give free advice | It’s fair to raise an eyebrow when a social network for healthcare comes along, but this network just might make you raise both eyebrows in surprise: HealthTap has created a healthcare social network with more than 5,000 real-live doctors t... |
| Sep 26, 2011 | HealthTap’s social network of 5,000 doctors is ready to give free advice | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s fair to raise an eyebrow when a social network for healthcare comes along, but this network just might make you raise both eyebrow... |
| Sep 10, 2011 | The Fragmented Mobile Information Race | Mobile devices are shifting many individual computing behaviors, perhaps none more significant than how we search for and receive information. Right now, it’s moving at warp speed. In between the time I finish this draft and its posted, it’... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Caution: Android 2.3 Gingerbread OTA Update Bricks Some Droid X | We’re seeing a number of comments on MobileCrunch, as well as other forums such as DroidForums, Yahoo Answers, and Android Central Forums, notifying us that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OTA update has bricked some of the Motorola Droid X sma... |
| May 7, 2011 | A New Era Of Search Is About The Answers, Not Just The Links | Editor’s note: The following guest post is written by Shashi Seth, the senior vice president of Search products at Yahoo! Previously, Shashi worked at Google where he developed the monetization strategy for YouTube and was also the product ... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | Yahoo's 4Cast Allows You To Cast Predictions On Any Topic | It looks like although Yahoo is shutting many of its services down, the company is still trying to innovate around new products. Spawned in Yahoo’s Sandbox, Yahoo 4Cast is a platform for you to cast your prediction or ‘foresight’ on any top... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Netflix Shares Soar, Site Goes Down | It’s not a great day for the Internet, folks. Web services seem to be dropping like flies. For several hours today, WordPress.com’s back-end was nowhere to be found, causing several TechCrunch writers to consider writing on legal pads and p... |
| Mar 12, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Stack Exchange CEO: "Nobody Wants To Find Yahoo Answers In Their Search Results" | There sure are a lot of Q&A sites on the Internet, but not all Q&A sites are the same. In the Founder Stories video above, Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky talks about the origins of Q&A sites and his competition. Stack Exchange ... |
| Jan 23, 2011 | Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype | Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don’t claim to be an expert on social networking; and I will be happy to be proven wrong—I have no vested interest in the succes... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Startup Roundup: PennApps developers favor Android, PhillyHistory.org gets augmented reality | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Jan 9, 2011 | Frequently Asked Questions About Quora | Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. This will be the first in a series of essays on Quora that he will post on TechCrunch. Shah is based in Palo Alto and you can fo... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | AOL Answers Sees The Light Of Day, 3 Years After AOL's Acquisition Of Yedda | Next November, it will be three years since AOL acquired Israeli startup Yedda in an effort to foray into the online Q&A service business.
Today, Yedda is finally graduating to a full-fledged AOL property with the ‘launch’ of AOL Answer... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Q&A Site Quora Opens Up to Search Engines Tomorrow | Quora, the real-time question and answer service started by two former Facebook employees, will start being indexed by search engines tomorrow, a week after Facebook rolled out the first version of the similar service Facebook Questions.
Bu... |
| Jul 28, 2010 | Ask.com returns to its roots with beta of new search technology | Most Internet veterans would associate the Ask brand with the familiar face of Jeeves, who you could ask a question and usually get the answer that you'd be looking for. However, as the Internet became more sophisticated, that method of sea... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | With Debut of Web Apps Q&A Site, Stack Exchange Perfects Automated Site Launch Process | A site called “Web Applications” (beta) is the newest addition to the Stack Exchange network, a service that powers popular tech Q&A sites including StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser.com and StackApps. Like the others before it, the... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | Google, Facebook Create Q&A Services To Bet Against Traditional Search | Why are some of the internet's biggest companies so concerned with questions? Two months after Google bought a question-and-answer service called Aardvark, Facebook has begun testing a "Questions" function near its ads, according ... |
| Mar 25, 2010 | Review: Olympus E-PL1 micro 4/3 digital camera | This is the year of Micro Four Thirds. While Nikon and Canon still haven’t dipped their toes in this pool, I think it’s time for the average camera user to look at these things seriously and the power and elegance captured in the E-PL1 – an... |
| Mar 18, 2010 | Formspring.me takes off with $2.5M and a hoax | Online Q&A site attracts heavy-hitting investors, millions of users in under 4 months. I’ve used Formspring quite a bit for event registration purposes. The site lets anyone create an online form, and has robust data-collection backend.... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | Free wiki hosting company Wikia to let you create your own question and answer sites | Wikia, a site which allows anyone to create their own free wiki page, has announced a new service, Answers from Wikia, that will enable anyone to create their own question and answer sites as well.
Wikia previously relaunched its Wikianswer... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | Free wiki hosting company Wikia to let you create your own question and answer sites | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Wikia, a site which allows anyone to create their... |
| Feb 26, 2010 | Yahoo Answers Gets A Much-Needed Facelift | Back in October, Yahoo revealed that Yahoo Answers sees 30 million questions and answers per month, with users contributing 2.4 questions and answers per second. Although Yahoo Answers sees a significant amount of traffic, its design and la... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Anonymity, Self-Reference & Q&A: Formspring.me’s Winning Combination for the Social Web | FormSpring.com is a data collection and management system with a particular emphasis in online forms, registrations and surveys. An enterprise-level system, FormSpring.com might seem rather dry to anyone but an online retailer or event coor... |
| Nov 12, 2009 | 3 Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect | With Google’s Social Search experiment, Bing’s integration with Twitter and Yahoo!’s partnership with One Riot, social search clearly has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us search better?... |
| Sep 25, 2009 | Fluther raises $600,000 | Real-time question answer search startup gets seed funded by Ron Conway and other investors
Fluther, a site which crowd sources answers in real-time, has raised $600,000 in seed funding from investors including Ron Conway, Marc Andreesen, D... |
| Sep 25, 2009 | Crowdsourcing company Fluther gets some big-name backers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Fluther, a startup that crowdsources answers for ... |
| Sep 25, 2009 | Crowdsourcing company Fluther gets some big-name backers | Fluther, a startup that crowdsources answers for user questions, just raised $600,000 from some of Silicon Valley’s better-known investors.
They include Netscape founder Marc Andreessen of newly-formed venture capital firm Andreessen Horowi... |
| Sep 24, 2009 | Apple locked us in, but how long will the jail sentence last? | This is a guest post by Paul Fisher a Venture Capital investor with Advent Ventures in Europe Portfolio companies include Zong.com, Qype, Adeptra and DailyMotion. Paul blogs at The Coffee Shops of Mayfair and Twitters at @paulfish.
I have w... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Double Down, But Only On The Right Hand | Last weekend, we watched Casino Royale on the beach in Slovenia, just up the Adriatic coast from Montenegro, where the story takes place. I love the scenes at the poker table, particularly the one where Bond goes all in and loses all his mo... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers | When Jimmy Wales & co earlier this year quietly added Wikianswers to the host of products launched under the Wikia umbrella, we weren’t the only ones who were skeptical about its potential to make waves. Did the Internet really need yet... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | British Red Cross campaign proves the power of social media for charities as tens of thousands of Brits back refugees through online movement | As World Refugee day (20th June) dawns, tens of thousands of people have visited the British Red Cross site to watch movie star Dougray Scott and change their online status in support of refugees as part of the British Red Cross “Look Beyon... |
| Jun 17, 2009 | Ask Waves Its Arms To Tell Everyone It Also Does Q&A Search | One of the most active sub-genres of search right now in terms of startup and new product activity is question and answer sites. Some searches are subjective and best answered by another human being. The success of Yahoo Answers proved this... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | Flickr cofounder launches advice service, Hunch | Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake‘s newest start-up, Hunch, opens to the public today. It’s an advice service that helps you make decisions. It offers up a database of questions you can choose to ask, such as, say “Where should I eat around S... |
| Jun 3, 2009 | Philly police to begin Segway patrols, please take them seriously | If you hang out on Main Street in Manayunk, you should begin seeing the Segway police patrols.
Officers on South Street, in University City, Center City and Southwest Philadelphia also begin using the new toys this week.
Try not to cringe a... |
| May 12, 2009 | Yahoo Answers wins: Microsoft to kill QnA on May 21 | reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating
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| May 8, 2009 | Making Decisions With Machines and People: 3 New Cyborg Q&A Services | The following post was originally titled The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services and ran a week and a half ago. It’s a slow morning around here and we thought readers who missed this the first time might appreci... |
| May 2, 2009 | Anthropology: The Art of Building a Successful Social Site | Picture if you will, a collaborative site that runs on two servers, is managed by four people, and has attracted a third of its target demographic within six months of launch. A site that has had 800,000 posts submitted by its users in its ... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services | One part people, one part machine. Is that a formula for more effective decision making? A number of high-profile entrepreneurs believe it is, and they are starting companies based on the idea.
In the following post we take a look at three ... |
| Apr 10, 2009 | Windows Live Hotmail Service Disruption Locks Out Users | Windows Live Hotmail (former Hotmail) is one of – if not the most – popular free webmail applications on the planet, so naturally there’s a bit of an uproar (warning: highly emotional teenager grunts here) since apparently users have been u... |
| Mar 20, 2009 | Path 101: Matching you to a new career by way of data | Right now is an especially tricky time to be looking for a job. And with more layoffs in just about every industry being announced daily, it can be terrifying to even think about. So it’s an opportune time for Path 101, a career guidance se... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | Littleshoot Adds BitTorrent Capabilities to Any Browser | Have you ever tried to explain BitTorrent to someone who has no clue about P2P? It’s challenging, isn’t it? Things that most of us take for granted really make no sense to users that aren’t all that tech-savvy. Don’t believe me? Just go to ... |
| Jan 31, 2009 | Jimmy Wales Quietly Launches Wikianswers | Here’s a question for you. How many Q&A sites does the Web really need? Already, there is Yahoo Answers, WikiAnswers, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin Answers, ChaCha and dozens beyond. But Wikia (and Wikipedia) co-founder Jimmy Wales thinks th... |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Why is finding a Jasper Xbox 360 such a pain in the neck? | What’s the easiest way to ensure that the Xbox 360 you’re buying is one of those Jasper ones, one with a 65nm CPU that runs cooler and shouldn’t be as susceptible to the red ring of death? On the little cutout on the back of the Xbox 360, y... |
| Dec 16, 2008 | Answerpedia: The Yahoo Product That Never Launched | Yahoo Answers is three years old this week, and it is the fifth most popular property within Yahoo after the homepage, search, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Shopping. (See the table below). According to Quantcast, it attracts 24 million monthly uni... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | Jason Calacanis’ “Project A” is surprisingly compelling Mahalo Answers | Today, Jason Calacanis launches Mahalo Answers — the latest project from Mahalo, his “human powered search engine”. Mahalo Answers is a possibly clever cross between Yahoo’s free-wheeling Q&A bonanza at Yahoo Answers, and Google’s highl... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | Q: What Do You Get When You Add Karate Belts To a Q&A Service? Mahalo Answers. | Mahalo is now answering your questions. The human-curated search engine/ condensed wiki guide is adding a Q&A service called Mahalo Answers to its mix. It is a combination of Yahoo Answers and the long-defunct Google Answers, with some ... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Douche of the Day: Diego Norte/James Brausch | We’ve been getting some spam emails from someone purporting to be Diego Norte offering us exciting notes to post on our blog. These notes include tips on how to cheat on your taxes and how to lure children into vans (I didn’t read the entir... |
| Oct 29, 2008 | Q: Do Baby Boomers Need Their Own Yahoo Answers? A: No. (Someone Tell Boomerater). | Today is the public beta launch of Boomerater, a question and answer service that caters specifically to baby boomers, which is a fancy term to describe people aged somewhere between 44 and 62.
The website is basically Yahoo Answers for bab... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Is Yahoo Trying To Sell Yahoo Answers? | Part of Yahoo’s survival strategy beyond merging with AOL may be to sell of what they consider to be non-core assets for cash. We heard from a source that Yahoo may be quietly reaching out to a couple of potential buyers to see if they’d be... |
| Sep 7, 2008 | Anti-Piracy Scam Emails Target BitTorrent Users | Over the years BitTorrent has attracted some shady figures. We’ve reported on malware ridden BitTorrent clients and media players, a BitTorrent site that infects its users with spyware, and several other scams.
Although most scams can be av... |
| Jul 9, 2008 | SpeedDate: Another Facebook App Bites The Dust | The most recent victim of the Facebook vs. annoying application war is SpeedDate. SpeedDate, an application from the company of the same name, has disappeared from the application list, and the link to the application leads back to the Face... |
| Jun 25, 2008 | Polling Startup SodaHead Raises $8.4 Million | Polls are popular on the Web because they are interactive without requiring too much effort. They are also a good way to collect a lot of data from users across the Web. SodaHead, a startup founded by former MySpace executives Jason Feffer ... |
| Jun 15, 2008 | Yahoo: ‘Everything But The Kitchen Sink’ Approach Not Paying Dividends | There’s been a lot of hand wringing in the media over the weekend about Yahoo’s rejection of Microsoft’s takeover bid. Most of the coverage has focused on the (very serious) financial and people issues that Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is now faci... |
| Jun 11, 2008 | ZoneAlarm Pro misidentifies Yahoo Messenger as a Trojan...again | It's getting more difficult to keep track of the various stages and permutations of malware, whose definition has expanded to mean "anything you didn't ask for and don't want running." But since when did Yahoo IM become malware?
I... |
