Category: Yahoo

• 24 November 2008

  Interesting stuff from around the web 2008-11-24

  The Shape of Alpha – using mass data to reveal the perceived shape of geography [Code: Flickr Developer Blog] “Plotted all the geotagged photos associated with a particular ‘Where On Earth ID’ (a database of places and bounding boxes, which describes the spatial hierarchy between places) to generate a mostly accurate contour of that place.…
• 29 September 2008

  Interesting stuff from around the web 2008-09-29

  Interesting new approaches to search coming out of Yahoo! Yahoo! Glue – a new web search interface When you perform a search on Yahoo! Glue you get a sort of Topic Page – automatically transcluding relevant info onto a single page with a clean URL. For instance, a search for ‘yahoo’ would be at: http://in.glue.yahoo.com/page/yahoo.…
• 3 April 2008

  links for 2008-04-03

  Flickr’s New Friend Finder: Data Portability or Privacy Violation? [read write web] Flickr’s introduction of Friend Finder caused concern because even though they did it right it does allows for a bulk comparison of all your email contacts to the Flickr user database. “Security by obscurity” is important and expected by some. (tags: dataportability flickr…