ReoCities: A project that was started to restore GeoCities
Yahoo shut down their GeoCities service a couple of days ago.
With this, we lost one of the most popular online brands of the 1990s.
ReoCities was a project started by a couple of guys who took it in their hands to salvage as much data [...]
Yahoo Mail not working for some users
If we are to believe the reports from Twitter, Yahoo Mail is currently suffering from accessibility problems.
Yahoo Mail is one of the most popular webmail services with more than 300 million active users worldwide.
Google Gmail usually makes news for such kind of accessibility problems. Looks like [...]
Yahoo Geocities shutting down tomorrow
Yahoo would turn off the plug on their Geocities web service which has enabled millions of users to host a website on the web for free.
The service began as Beverly Hills Internet way back in 1994. It was one of the first to offer free hosting space online for [...]
Flickr finally has face tagging feature!
Yahoo owned photo sharing service Flickr has finally added a face tagging feature.
There is no face recognition technology though. You would have to manually tag faces with names.
The feature was made popular by services like Facebook. Picasa and Apple iPhoto have it with recognition capabilities.
Flickr said that [...]
Yahoo closing down Geocities on October 26
US based internet media giant Yahoo has given its final warning to the users who are still hosting their web pages on Geocities web service.
The company has warned them that the service would shut down on October 26 this month.
This is one of the many web services [...]
Xoopit for Gmail service ending
Xoopit has some bad news for their users on Google owned Gmail service.
The developers have announced that they are closing down Xoopit for Gmail.
The service would stop working from November 13 this year.
They would now focus on the My Photos for Yahoo! Mail feature.
The developers stated in [...]
Delicious update with new features
Yahoo has updated their delicious social bookmarking service with some new features.
Delicious now features a more capable search engine that enables you to search for real time data.
Users get the ability to search during a period using an interactive graph!
Yahoo has also update the mobile edition of [...]
Zook.in is a new local and media search engine
Zook.in is a new web based service that is aimed to provide local and media search services.
It is based in India and uses search engine technologies provided by Yahoo and Microsoft.
The service uses data gained from search engine data to provide localized search content. [...]
Yahoo wants you to build an app for their homepage!
US based internet media giant Yahoo is calling developers to build applications that can become part of their homepage.
The company said that they are already offering around 400 such applications that can be added by their users on their Yahoo homepage.
By building apps [...]
Yahoo adds its own branding to Flickr Logo
Yahoo continues to annoy Flickr users with their policies and actions.
The internet media giant has now added its own branding on the Flickr logo on the service.
The logo now states: Flickr® from Yahoo!
Yahoo is now facing a major user protest for this new development.
Flickr [...]
