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Yahoo! security support update - HeartsongStudios.com

March 13th, 2008 · Comments

After a pretty bad experience with Yahoo!’s merchant services security support while getting HeartsongStudios.com online, the site is finally up and running. Yahoo! does a decent job at outsourcing their support to work-at-home representatives. The one I got, Max, was nice enough.
I’m glad it’s over… Now my father’s site can start working for him.

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Tags: HeartsongStudios.com · Security · Yahoo

Yahoo! security support sucks with a capital S

March 9th, 2008 · Comments

Most of you know I rarely go out of my way to publicly voice such a negative opinion as I’m about to issue. Especially against a company for which: a) I hold stock, and b) I believe is one of the best large companies in Silicon Valley.
Today I signed up for Yahoo! Merchant Services for [...]

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Tags: Etiquette · Facebook · Flickr · Yahoo

Google Contact API finally here

March 5th, 2008 · Comments

Cart dropped a note about long anticipated API addition at Google (so long that most people forgot about they might even still be working on it). Google now has a contact API. This is huge news because up until now only Yahoo! offered a good synchronization service.
I’ve been a Yahoo! Address Book fan for years because of [...]

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Tags: Database · Google · Software Development · Yahoo

Nokia and Yahoo!?

February 17th, 2008 · Comments

Tim O’Reilly twittered this article on the five reasons Nokia should put a bid in on Yahoo!
I’d go for that. I’ve written about what I like about Yahoo! and the reasons I like them as a company without search. Nokia making a play for Yahoo! makes sense. It creates a strong combination as a mobile [...]

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Tags: Nokia · Prediction · Yahoo

Yahoo! - components that matter to me after no search

February 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The news of the week (month/year?) is the $44.6 billion offer from Microsoft to acquire Yahoo!. Robert Scoble blogs the intelligence of Google’s email and Dave Winer drops thoughts on Yahoo’s options based on TechCrunch blogger Mike Arrington’s analysis. Mike Arrington’s latest news is a bit disheartening. Either sell to Microsoft or sell their [...]

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Tags: BlackBerry · Microsoft · Software Development · Wearing · Web Services · Yahoo · iPhone