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Laura Lippay of Yahoo!

Monday, October 13th, 2008

The skilled Laura Lippay and Tony Adams too! A day in the life of Yahoo.

Open Social and Search Monkey Developers Needed

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

If you read this blog and you are a developer, you probably should let me know I often have work on neat projects. I have project work for… Open Social developers (javascript) Search Monkey (php / xslt) Facebook (php) Be part of some of the most popular and innovative applications on the web. I should [...]

Yahoo Beats Google to User-Made Widgets in Search Results

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Yahoo Searchmonkey widgets are now live in the search results. What does this mean? It means that Yahoo has beat Google to third party widgets in search results. It means that those of you who ignored SearchMonkey can no longer do so. I think in a larger sense what it means is that Yahoo is [...]

Yahoo and Rich Media Ads

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Anyone who uses Yahoo mail has probably noticed that they serve rich media ads (widget ads). I have been noticing more and more of these, and have been curious why I haven’t been hearing about them more. Yahoo is apparently working with a few of their larger clients on this, but I have seen some [...]

Yahoo SearchMonkey Example from SEOmoz Member

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

A great quick example demonstrating Yahoo’s SearchMonkey results was provided by SEOmoz member Steven T of LocateTV . As with any new thing, it is great to see an example of its use with something we are familiar with. Stephen created a SearchMonkey result using SEOmoz…. Notice how that one screenshot says alot? The photos [...]

Google I/O Coverage – Part One

Friday, May 30th, 2008

By some miracle I was awake when this conference began at 8AM (ouch), and I was impressed by the keynote. I am happy I made it to see it, I was thinking of skipping it. Keynote Speech The keynote, as I said was pretty good. In it, Google products were highlighted, but the real crowd pleaser [...]

SearchMonkey Overview

Friday, May 16th, 2008

It was good to be at Yahoo campus for this event, as it allowed me to directly and intensely ponder the uses of the SearchMonkey product… I will build a couple of examples to illustrate the wide range of results that can be utilized, however at the moment I have a hangover (not sure why). [...]

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Launch

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I am in the San Jose area for today’s SearchMonkey launch party. It will be at Yahoo! headquarters and it looks like it will be interesting. What is Search Monkey? In a way, it is Yahoo’s take on gadgets within search results… sorta. The example they use at their SearchMonkey site is a movie website that [...]

My upcoming events

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

I will be leaving the trail to attend a few things in the next three weeks. I hope to see you there, and also this will be the window of opportunity to get some face time with me if I am working on your projects. Contact me asap to arrage meetings, here is where I [...]