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I enjoy reading about social media in all it’s forms. It’s really interesting to see what the whole thing has morphed into. Some of it causes a lot of problems; I work with teenagers, and cyber bullying has become a really big thing. But, there’s other parts that really pique my interest. This article really [...]

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Make money promoting the Thesis Theme on your blog, especially if you’re using it on your blogs like I am. Here are the easy to follow steps: Sign up for the affiliate program at Share a Sale. Hover over ‘Merchants’ in the Header Select ‘Search for Merchants’ Search for ‘Thesis’ Select ‘DIY Themes’ Apply to [...]

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Support your favorite pirate today! Yeah, it’s on the 19th this year, but I like to party like a pirate a little early. Never heard of Talk Like a Pirate Day? Only cool people do it, so if you aren’t doing it… Well, you already know you’re ‘that’ guy.  Sad… Anyhoo!  Javascript insert created by [...]

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Open Yahoo! – Hackday 2008

by Robyn Tippins on September 12, 2008

It’s always nice to be around a throng of smart people, but when those people are developers and those developers are crazy creative and ready to hack, it makes your day even better. Hackday 08 has finally arrived! Since Web 2.0 Expo, a few trickles of information has been coming out about what we’re planning, [...]

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Why is everyone bitching because this app was not approved? I’m trying to find out where the outcry is coming from… Why is it a bad thing that Pull My Finger was removed? Editorial control (ie real human actually looking at apps) is what we’re all begging for on most platforms. Is the argument that [...]

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Open HackDay At Yahoo!

by Robyn Tippins on August 27, 2008

This is one of those things that you don’t want to miss. It’s limited to a few hundred developers and priority is being given to those devs who are hacking. Please request an invite here and add your name to Upcoming if you want to attend. We’ll be sending out invites shortly so act fast.

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Yahoo! Developer Network – Interns! from mattt on Vimeo.

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After a cease and desist letter from Fedora, we learned our logo was a bit too much like theirs, and rather than waste resources saving the logo and fighting with a company many of us like, it seemed to make more sense to just ask the community to help us come up with another one. [...]

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Yahoo Offers Up OpenID

by Robyn Tippins on January 17, 2008

Via TC: But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon. Today, there are only approximately 120 million valid OpenID accounts. In one move, Yahoo more than triples that number. I found out about this in late Dec, but couldn’t say anything. I was [...]

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Twitter Is Dangerous Yeah right… Bloggers with their gloom and doom are more dangerous. The gist of this ‘fear twitter’ story is that people are, gasp, talking to more than one person! Imagine this scenario: 20 people are in a confidential meeting, one of them using Twitter. This attendee broadcasts an off-hand “tweet” (Twitter comment) [...]

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