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Newspaper widget review: Yahoo! Widgets
I recently gave a presentation at the Miami IA Summit about Information Architecture and user-centred design ideas for widgets, and I very often blog about newspaper websites on currybetdotnet, so it seemed like an obviously great idea to put the two together, and blog about newspaper widgets. Well, obvious maybe, but it turned out not to be such a great idea after all. Rather than ending up with a lengthy series of posts looking at all the available widgets and...

Read the full post - Published May 12, 2008 in Newspapers, Widgets, Yahoo

Newspaper "Site Search Smackdown": Round 6 - Google vs The Search Engine All-Stars
I've been running a series of Newspaper Site Search Engine Smackdowns to see which papers were able to index their own content faster than Google could. It turned out that the answer was not many, with only The Daily Express, Daily Mail and The Independent getting close to indexing news stories faster than Google's web search did. Although it is the dominant player in the market, Google is not the only search engine, so I also carried out the...

Read the full post - Published April 13, 2008 in Google, Microsoft, Newspapers, Search, Yahoo

Making the most of blog comments: Part 6 - Making a unified blog post and comment feed with Yahoo! Pipes
I've been writing a series of posts looking at various aspects of implementing comments on blogs. This week I've been concentrating on the way that blog comments can be output as RSS. Yesterday I explained how to add a recent comments RSS feed to Movable Type. Today I want to look at how you can publish one feed from your blog, which features both the entries written by the author, and the comments left by users. What I want...

Read the full post - Published February 28, 2008 in Blogging, RSS, Yahoo

Flickr users protest about Yahoo! takeover. Again.
The interweb's tubes have been buzzing that Flickr users are already in open revolt over Microsoft's offer to take-over Yahoo!, Flickr's parent company. Image by sebestyenistvan "A splinter faction of Flickr photo-sharing community members is threatening a symbolic 'mass suicide'" - Wired "I'm not cross and I'm not bitter - I'm just a little sad because I have a belief that things can be good/great without taking the obvious route". - grange85 "My fear is that over time they won't...

Read the full post - Published February 6, 2008 in Flickr, Microsoft, Yahoo

IA Summit bloggers mash-up feed
Last week I published a list of 37 bloggers who are participating in the 2008 IA Summit in Miami in April. As well as in individual list, there was an OPML file to allow you import all of the sites into your feed reader of choice in one go. I've now put together an alternative way to subscribe to them. I've mashed 35 of the feeds together using the awesome Yahoo! Pipes - partly thanks to Kevin Cheng who features...

Read the full post - Published February 4, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, RSS, Yahoo

24/7 TV news websites: Part 10 - Search
Having individually reviewed the websites of 8 24/7 news channels that broadcast in Europe to identify their Web 2.0 type features, I wanted to look specifically at the way they handle a very Web 1.0 piece of functionality - search. Al Jazeera Al Jazeera is the only site I looked at with a search service that does not have a search box on the homepage, or in the templates of story pages. Instead, the user has to select a text...

Read the full post - Published January 22, 2008 in BBC, CNN, Search, Television, Web, Yahoo

Grade 'F' all round for British newspaper homepages on YSlow
Last week the Yahoo! Developers Network released a Firefox add-on called YSlow. It combines with the fantastic Firebug add-on to allow you to assess a web page against Yahoo!'s 13 criteria for delivering a really fast scalable web service. I thought it might be interesting to benchmark British newspaper homepages against the YSlow performance metrics, to see how well they performed. Some of the technical solutions that Yahoo! recommend require significant investment in infrastructure. I suspect most newspaper editors in...

Read the full post - Published July 30, 2007 in Newspapers, Web, Yahoo

ITV advertise using the keyword 'iPlayer' on Google and Yahoo!
Well, here's one amusing thing that I didn't predict about the day of the BBC's iPlayer software launch. Early yesterday morning, ITV - or someone making mischief on their behalf - were buying up keywords on Google and Yahoo! related to the BBC iPlayer, to trumpet their own streaming on demand service. Boasting that there was no software to download, there seemed to be two or three variations of the advert, which stopped appearing around lunchtime. Some BBC properties, like...

Read the full post - Published July 28, 2007 in BBC, Google, Yahoo, iPlayer

A tour of Tour De France news sites - Étape 5: Eurosport / Yahoo!
Like the majority of cycling fans, I have been watching this week's events in the Tour De France unfold with dismay. Most other weeks, someone claiming to be from ETA letting bombs off on the route would be a major story, but yesterday with the expulsion of yellow jersey wearer Michael Rasmussen and the exclusion of the Cofidis team, that hardly seemed to matter. Of course, there is an argument that says that out of the couple of hundred...

Read the full post - Published July 26, 2007 in Cycling, Tour de France, Usability, Web, Yahoo

Flickr imprvment
I'm well behind the curve on this, as I see it was announced at the end of February, but yesterday I noticed a significant user interaction improvement on Flickr around adding photos to groups you don't currently belong to. The old way was a bit cumbersome. Someone would spot your photo of the lesser-spotted outer Mongolian tortoise-shell widget, and you'd get a Flickrmail saying: Hi, out of your 6,512 photographs, I notice that once, in the corner of one,...

Read the full post - Published March 23, 2007 in Flickr, Yahoo

Yahoo! door-stepping ex-Google Answers researchers

Published December 7, 2006 in Google, Web, Yahoo

Sitemaps in search engine news

Published November 16, 2006 in Google, Search, Yahoo

Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet - Yahoo!'s "social search" concept

Published October 11, 2006 in Search, Yahoo

Searching for pictures on ImageShack and Yahoo! Photos

Published August 8, 2006 in Product review, Search, Yahoo

Yahoo! Answers - Beta AND (New)

Published July 7, 2006 in Search, Yahoo

Sloppy search on Yahoo!'s World Cup site

Published June 23, 2006 in Football, Search, Yahoo

A history of the online World Cup

Published June 13, 2006 in Football, Web, Yahoo

"You can only select 2 teams"

Published June 4, 2006 in Football, Web, Yahoo

Yahoo! points to the Firefox search box

Published April 22, 2006 in Search, Yahoo

Yahoo My Web 2.0 Beta - My 6 month report

Published December 1, 2005 in Search, Yahoo

Yahoo! Using Flickr To Supplement News Coverage

Published September 1, 2005 in Flickr, Web, Yahoo

Searching For Google Talk

Published August 24, 2005 in Google, Search, Yahoo

Firefox Search Plugin For Yahoo! My Web 2.0 Beta

Published July 2, 2005 in Search, Yahoo

Google and Yahoo! Playing With Video Search

Published April 17, 2005 in Google, Search, Yahoo

Yahoo! and MSN both tweaking their search

Published July 4, 2004 in Microsoft, Search, Yahoo

Andy is back...and blogging?

Published May 20, 2004 in Blogging, Web, Yahoo

Searching for the "War on Iraq"

Published March 25, 2003 in BBC, Politics, Search, Yahoo

Early Christmas present for Yahoo!

Published December 26, 2002 in Search, Yahoo