Category Archives: yahoo

Home and Remote Office Workers… A Good Idea or Just Yahoo!-ing Around?

Posted on February 26, 2013 by glenn

It seems that Marissa Mayer and Yahoo! have stirred the pot a little here with this topic, although honestly, given Yahoo!’s track record I don’t really take much to heart that is coming out of the fledgling Internet company (when … Continue reading →

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BOSS Geo Added to Yahoo! Search API

Posted on October 5, 2012 by glenn

Something new from Yahoo! (you remember them right?)… seems the Yahoo! team is beefing up their API a little with addition of some new geospatial capabilities. Via their dev blog, Yahoo! describes BOSS Geo as being comprised of two popular … Continue reading →

Posted in developer, yahoo |

Yahoo! looks back at search trends – BP tops search and Germans interested in maps

Posted on December 2, 2010 by glenn

Today Yahoo! Inc. has  announced its 2010 Year in Review (http://yearinreview.yahoo.com), the annual Yahoo! look back that identifies the top trends of the year from billions of consumer searches, and the top stories and topics of the year from the … Continue reading →

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The New Yahoo! Goes Loco With Local offers and a Dozen Partners

Posted on November 18, 2010 by glenn

Out of the Web2.0 event this week in San Fran, Yahoo! has lifted the lid off their latest plans to harness the power of location and mobile location tech – enter Yahoo! Local offers. Some details… Yahoo! is launching its … Continue reading →

Posted in LBS, yahoo |

Yahoo! Sketch a spatial search

Posted on March 26, 2010 by gisuser

Yahoo! just recently rolled out Yahoo! Y sketch for iPhone a cool search tool where users simply sketch an area of interest on a map and look for hits of interest returned within the area… very clever!

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Add geo-location to facebook via fire eagle friends on fire

Posted on January 1, 2010 by glenn

A tip for you Geo geeks on facebook… I stumbled onto an update from Yahoo! Fire eagle this morning that enables facebook users to integrate more geo location functionality into their account courtesy of the friends on fire applet http://apps.facebook.com/on-fire/ … Continue reading →

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GeoCities R.I.P as Yahoo! pulls the plug

Posted on October 26, 2009 by glenn

I doubt that there will be very many tears shed, however, one of the web’s old timer resources is shutting down today as Yahoo! pulls the plug on GeoCities. I have to admit, I haven’t even looked at a GeoCities … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Increasing your whereness with Placemaker

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Glenn

From Yahoo1 Dev net today comes Placemaker, a geoparsing Web service that gives you a way to determine the ‘whereness’ of unstructured content. From Yahoo!… This read-only service identifies, disambiguates, and ‘extracts’ places from structured and unstructured text content, such … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! and Google sitting in a tree… K I S S I N G…

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Glenn

Interesting to see how Yahoo! is looking to Google for help in serving up ads for their search results. this comes as Yahoo! tries to fend off hostile takeover from Microsoft. Could Google possible own any more of the online … Continue reading →

Posted in google, Microsoft, yahoo |

WikiNear, the location-sensitive WiKiNear – using Yahoo’s fire eagle + Google maps API

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Glenn

WikiNear, the location-sensitive WiKi… this cool app. uses Yahoo’s fire eagle – you’ll need an invitation from Yahoo! to use this – the skinny of it is that the app. uses your location to locate Wiki pages that are closest … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! maps adds drag and drop routes and compare routing

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Glenn

New from Yahoo! maps… drag and drop your routes, compare old and new routing options. Don’t like the route that Yahoo! maps suggests… no problem, now you can simply drag and drop to create an updated path, perhaps avoiding road … Continue reading →

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Schmap boast Schmap for Mac, online guides, an open developer platform, and customizable widgets using Google, Yahoo! or Microsoft maps

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Glenn

Schmap, the developer and publisher of those very cool, free guides and Schmapplets has not only just passed the 30 million download mark, but they also have some cool updates. Most recently, the company is boasting Schmap for Mac, online … Continue reading →

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