Category: yahoo
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Since I’m a Yahoo! Employee… (from 2008)
1. there is so much potential upside to the stock and for the company. It’s still the #1 (2008) web property in the world and lots of new projects and direction changes only can mean good things in the future 2. there is so much to do, for someone who can take the initiative, he…
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Perspective On Work
I worked for SGI from 1993-1999 and was bleeding SGI blood. I was the cheerleader for the company and our group. I left SGI when the company just couldn’t deliver the financial results it promised. A friend from SGI mentioned to me that when I left SGI, I swore I would not be emotionally involved…
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Help someone at work tomorrow
As we start the year, look around your work cubicles, these are the people you will spend every weekday with. Ask yourself what you can do to help your fellow co-worker. Some ideas: * Give constructive feedback how on she is running a meeting. * Send one less reply-all email to a plea for help,…
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Why I Came To Yahoo! And Why I Am Still Here?
In 1999, I was working for Silicon Graphics but I decided to work for another company because SGI at that point was not performing well and I believed that the company was not financially viable any more. When thinking of which company to apply for a job, I looked to Yahoo! From the outside, Yahoo!…
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Flips and Jumps at Acrosports Gym in San Francico : My First Published And Paid Writing on Yahoo! Contributor Network
Yahoo! bought a company named Associated Content, which was recently changed to Yahoo! Contributor Network. I am the software architect on the backend content management system for Yahoo! Media and actively working with the engineer trying to integrate the great tools from Associated Content into the Yahoo! infrastructure. In order to truly understand the power…
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Yahoo! Homepage gets a tablet version
I was very pleasantly surprised when I browsed to Yahoo! on my iPad and was redirected to a very clean page optimized to my iPad, with swipe action.
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Photos from Google vs. Yahoo! Badminton Tournament
It was a fun day where employees from 2 companies met up to play our favorite game. I played in 3 events: Men’s Singles A, Men’s Doubles A, Mixed Doubles A and lost all 3 and went into consolation rounds and won the Mixed Doubles A consolation. It was fantastic to organize it and meet…
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Most Emailed News : 7 Years Ago
memory flashback. Y! News launched it’s Most-emailed stories and photos page back in Feb 2000 and New York Times wrote an article that we were the first ones to aggregate and show the data back to users Back then, we looked at what users were emailing, when we troubleshoot the system and noticed a lot…
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Dream Big
Yahoo! News reached 40 million unique users per month recently. Today I was sitting around the conference with my co-workers chewing the fat. I was telling them that in my mind, we are at a second phase of Yahoo! News. It’s a phase of large numbers.In the next 3-5 years we can grow to 80…
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the unthinkable, 57.5 mile drive to work
(photo is of the Dragon Beard candy from Koi Palace) Today I was driving into work from Berkeley after dropping off Kate at school. It’s a 46 mile drive if I went on a straight route along 880. Today 511.org said there where 4 accidents on 880 so I decided to take 580, 680 and…