Sprint’s Mobile Email service may have been one of the best kept secrets in the world of feature phones. Back in the days before the modern smartphone era, push email was something reserved mostly for BlackBerry handsets. This is because a BlackBerry data plan included access to a server to push emails to your handset in real […]
In a recent Yahoo press event discussing changes to the Flickr photo sharing service, CEO Marissa Mayer was asked why the Flickr Pro service was being discontinued. Her response, given 46 minutes into the interview, was a bit of a bombshell. “…there’s no such thing as Flickr Pro, because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, […]
Flickr is one of those web services that almost everyone uses, yet it feels like no one talks about. Before Apple had PhotoStream or Google had Picasa, people shared photos via Flickr. Acquired back in 2005 by Yahoo, the image and video sharing site was slowly been getting eclipsed by newer, flashier services. Until yesterday, […]
In a press release sent out this morning, Yahoo! confirmed rumors that spread last week that it is indeed purchasing the microblogging and social network Tumblr. At a total of approximately $1.1 billion in cash, the buyout is expected to go through in the second half of this year. David Karp, Tumblr’s CEO who founded […]
Hi, Yahoo! I still use you for my email because you’re a comfortable old friend. But there’s not much else I want from you. I don’t want Yahoo! search, Yahoo! news, or Yahoo! chat. So, how do you become relevant again? People have moved on from your email service. Gmail is all set with Google, and […]
Hi all! I am just brimming over with ideas for everyone. So, in this new column, I’m going to share them. Let’s start with Google. Google gets slammed a lot by people who don’t trust it. Interestingly, I’ve seen friends post to Facebook about not trusting Google, seemingly unaware that Facebook actually has sold consumer […]
Yahoo, the chosen web portal of the 50+ set (alongside AOL) and once a giant of the industry, has seen itself marginalized in recent years. While the search engine still generates an insane amount of traffic, the company just announced a second quarter earnings statement that was, at best, passable. Revenues of $1.08 billion fell […]
Every now and then, someone on the Facebook team gives us another reminder that users are not their primary customers. Tuesday, it was project manager Austin Haugen’s turn when he announced a landmark for third party timeline apps. Some of the most innovative companies are launching new timeline apps this week at SXSW in Austin, […]
Somehow I missed the news in May that Yahoo had sold the Delicious brand to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. After Sunday’s New York Times article on their plans for the once-preeminent online bookmarking service, I’m positively stoked. When the men heard about Yahoo’s plans to close Delicious, their ears perked up, and […]
