Category Archives: video

Open source grid computing takes off

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Matt McAlister

This has been fun to watch. The Hadoop team at Yahoo! is moving quickly to push the technology to reach its potential. They’ve now adopted it on one of the most important applications in the entire business, Yahoo! Search. From … Continue reading →

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Interactive journalism: An amazing homicide mashup

Posted on January 16, 2008 by

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sean Connelly and Katy Newton for YDN Theater recently with YDN videographer Ricky Montalvo. They created the amazing (and award-winning) crime data mashup Not Just A Number in partnership with The Oakland Tribune. After … Continue reading →

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What is a MashUp?

Posted on November 29, 2007 by

YDN went to Ireland for MashupCamp and came back with some hilarious footage. Rated PG:

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Investing in video at YDN

Posted on November 6, 2007 by

We’ve been playing around with video as a communications mechanism on Yahoo! Developer Network for a while now. Our casual attempts to generate interest in Yahoo! technologies through interviews, screencasts, tech talks, etc. have worked really well. So, we hired … Continue reading →

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The Hack Day London Video

Posted on June 18, 2007 by

I’m heading back home from Hack Day London tomorrow. What a spectacular event. I did my best to capture the behind-the-scenes action this time, as I think the Hack Day event process itself is really interesting, too. Of course, sharing … Continue reading →

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The Yahoo! Mail Web Service screencasts

Posted on March 28, 2007 by

The Yahoo! Mail team rolled out a groundbreaking service today — the Yahoo! Mail Web Service. As Chad says in the announcement: “With the Yahoo! Mail Web Service, you can connect to the core mail platform to perform typical mailbox … Continue reading →

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Friday fun: The Daily Show on the Viacom vs YouTube dispute

Posted on March 23, 2007 by
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How to layer postproduction visuals in a screencast

Posted on March 5, 2007 by

Jeremy Zawodny and I produced another screencast last week, a look inside Pipes with Pasha Sadri and Ed Ho. The Pipes guys shared their insights while we asked a few questions and recorded the screen and the audio. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Some fun visuals

Posted on February 26, 2007 by

Presentation Zen offered up a great collection of visuals today I thought were worth pointing to here including this stunning use of typography running in parallel with Samuel L. Jackson’s briefcase interrogation in Pulp Fiction (not exactly work safe…turn down … Continue reading →

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A magazine I would love to read

Posted on February 23, 2007 by

There’s a magazine that I’d love to read if someone published it (yes, the print kind). Of course, it’s about the Internet. It’s about the stack that makes up the Internet, the platform or, as many people are calling it, … Continue reading →

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