April 24, 2008

Ari Balogh - Web 2.0 Expo Keynote

Ari Balogh, CTO at Yahoo! just offered a preview at Web 2.0 Expo of a very new kind of Yahoo!. One that invites developers to take advantage of our huge scale to write applications that build on our existing properties (think Mail, Sports, Search, our front page, mobile, My Yahoo!, etc.), tap into millions of loyal users, and make Internet experience more relevant and useful.

Aristotle “Ari” Balogh is currently Chief Technology Officer at Yahoo!. He is responsible for company-wide product development which includes optimizing resources, speeding innovation, and ensuring the quality of Yahoo!’s products and services. He is focused on establishing a common architecture and building blocks to drive development aligned with corporate strategy and on improving the overall effectiveness of Yahoo!’s engineering efforts.

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April 23, 2008

Conference Conversations: Web 2.0 Expo

We enlisted the help of Karen Nguyen from Y! Video and hit the expo floor at Web 2.0 to see what was happening. In this clip, Karen runs into iJustine, plays the "name game", drives a monster truck with a cell phone, and takes her aggression out on a Brat's doll.

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April 21, 2008

Indi Young

Indi Young, co-founder of strategic design firm Adaptive Path, spoke at Yahoo! earlier this month to introduce her new book, Mental Models. Subtitled "Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior," Indi's book explores the reasons for different user behaviors and provides practical guidance for designers, developers, product managers, and everyone else involved in the creation of useful, engaging products. You can also find a collection of images from the book on Flickr.

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April 11, 2008

ThingFo

The Thingfo widget and API system enables successful websites to activate users, embed activity and community on their sites, and publish to the next generation of social networks. MyBlogLog's Ian Kennedy sat with ThingFo's Mike Grishaver who gave us a little screencast.

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April 11, 2008

The Business of Open Source

For many years, free and open source software was exclusively associated with the research community, in contrast to the closed source products developed by commercial software vendors. Yahoo! recently invited Tom Wasserman to give a keynote talk that describes the emergence of open source business, focusing on the growing commercialization of open source and offers some predictions for future directions related to the business of open source.

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April 3, 2008

Experts @ Work: David Ciemiewicz (aka Ciemo) on Pig and Hadoop

What exactly is a "Search Excellence Guru"? Jeremy Zawodny sits down with David Ciemiewicz (aka Ciemo) to find out.

Highlights from the conversation include Ciemo’s thoughts on how to use Pig and Hadoop to sift through petabytes of user logs to gain an understanding of user wants, needs, and desires; why he likes Pig Latin more than SQL; and why the map-reduce compute grid paradigm makes a great alternative to traditional databases such Oracle and MySQL, data warehouses and data marts.

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