Yahoo! Hack Day, 2008 Edition

This coming September 12-13, Yahoo! is hosting its second open Hack Day at the main campus in Sunnyvale. This year’s title is “Open Hack 2008“. If you’re interested, check out the teaser video and sign up on the Hack Day site.

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Delicious 2.0 Launched

Today Yahoo! launched version 2.0 of the Delicious bookmarking service: The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and hopefully more delightful to use and to look at. The major changes touted are improved speed, more powerful search, and a brand new UI design. They are also making “delicious.com” the primary domain (switching from the original “del.icio.us”). So far I find the UI changes pretty decent and the speed does seem better. As with many UI overhauls, there’s a bit of the “who moved my cheese?” aspect to it as I discover where everything…

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