Y!OS Developer Release is Live. Yahoo! is open!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Today, Yahoo opened the developer interfaces to our Y!OS platform stack through the release of the Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP), Yahoo! Query Language (YQL), Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), and the YDN developer dashboard.  This makes Y!OS a reality for an essential constituency: developers.  Now, anyone on the ...

Yahoo Web Analytics (Beta) - Far more better than Google Analytics

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Born out of our acquisition of IndexTools in May, Yahoo! Web Analytics (beta) provides powerful data and insights reporting that help website owners evaluate their marketing performance and tweak their website designs. They’ll get custom real-time reports and graphs that help them slice and dice metrics like sales, page views, ...

YAHOO! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn

Monday, July 21st, 2008

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 21, 2008Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company’s 2008 annual meeting of stockholders. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, eight members of Yahoo!’s current ...

My Interview with Yahoo-Inc! (Part 1)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Hello Friends, Last month I was interviewed by Yahoo-Inc! for a job as software engineer. Here I would like to point out the discussions and various question/answer sessions I went through before I got my confirmation letter :) Probably someone looking to join yahoo can take some tips from here. In total ...

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft toolkit for startups

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Welcome, Well there is some good news for young entrepreneurs out there. Google released Google Apps which can be used by for your websites email, hosting needs. You can use all the google applications (Gmail, Gtalk, Google docs, Calendar, Page Creator etc) for your site and all for free. This really ...

How to write crawlers and parse a page using Perl (Part 1)

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Hello all perl freaks, One of the most powerful thing which we can achieve using perl is, extracting any content from a website you want to. For example, you can use perl to extract information of all the artists from All Music, extract information about all cricket players and matches from ...