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.
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…
From Nate’s blog, I discovered an excellent photographic news blog on Boston.com: The Big Picture: The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm’s MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery – with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting. Online news sites seem to be shrinking their images (Yahoo! News had larger images…
If you’re looking for a better Yahoo! ID, or you like to collect “yourname@” on all the different web services, Yahoo! is opening up two new domains today: ymail.com and rocketmail.com. Go to the new mail addresses page to get started. Read the official release on Yodel Anecdotal.
This blog has recently been hit by a barrage of spam comments linking to “adult videos” pages on Google Notebook. If you click through onto the site, you’ll get to a page that appears to be an adult video site, but clicking on anything drops you into an install process for an “ActiveX control” which in fact is a virus or trojan. This must be a new wave because Akismet hasn’t been catching most of them. I finally put in an additional spam filter that junks any comment with “google.com/notebook” in it.