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How do candidates’ web sites perform?

Posted on February 5, 2008 by

Yahoo!’s Nicole Sullivan analyzed the political candidates’ official web sites comparing performance for each using ySlow: In honor of Super Tuesday, we thought it would be fun to take a poke at the Presidential Candidates web sites and share with … 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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A handy music playlist tool

Posted on January 10, 2008 by

I’ve been looking for a way to share playlists on my blog and elsewhere online for a long time. It’s been surprisingly hard to find a really convenient way to do it. DRM and industry lockdown have been a big … 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 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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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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Micah Laaker joins us on YDN

Posted on February 28, 2007 by

Friend and colleague Micah Laaker just joined us on the YDN team. You may recognize his name from the classic ACLU Pizza video that he directed. Here it is in case you haven’t seen it or forgot how great it … Continue reading →

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Screencasting with Yahoo! partners

Posted on January 22, 2007 by

An exciting part of my job is the exposure I get to startups that are doing new and interesting things. Last week, for example, Jeremy Zawodny and I sat with the Renkoo team while they walked through all the ways … Continue reading →

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