Tag Archives: yahoo

Comparing NLP APIs for Entity Extraction

Posted on January 2, 2010 by mfagan

Update: a number have people have pointed out some small errors and some additional APIs that I should look at. See my half-hearted followup: Entity Extraction APIs, once again. As part of a project I’m working on (more on that … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month

Posted on December 23, 2009 by mfagan

Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month – of all the services Yahoo’s been killing, this one is just sad. MyBlogLog was pretty innovative and just as useful today as it always has been, despite years of nothing new. At the … Continue reading →

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Term Extraction Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services – YDN

Posted on August 13, 2009 by mfagan

Yahoo!’s Term Extraction Web Search is about to be discontinued. very sad wait, nevermind

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WordPress › MyBlogLog: Just for you « WordPress Plugins

Posted on August 11, 2008 by mfagan

WordPress › MyBlogLog: Just for you « WordPress Plugins – I doubt this will get much uptake, but it is actually really neat. Anyone with a mybloglog cookie, when viewing a blog with this plugin, will see a list of … Continue reading →

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Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web – Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry

Posted on March 13, 2008 by mfagan

Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web – Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry – wow. Watching things grow sloooowly for a long time, and then it finally seems like things are picking up… very exciting. Update: link is … Continue reading →

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randomness

Posted on August 10, 2006 by mfagan

work seems to be keeping me rather busy Yesterday I got around to fixing a several-month-old bug with my University of Waterloo search engine. Turns out the problem was Yahoo having changed their query parser. The query I was sending … Continue reading →

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TechCrunch » Rumor: Yahoo Acquired Jotspot

Posted on May 10, 2006 by mfagan

TechCrunch » Rumor: Yahoo Acquired Jotspot – I don’t usually report on breaking news rumours but this one is very interesting, because Jotspot is such an amazing company/product.

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Yahoo! buys Upcoming.org

Posted on October 5, 2005 by mfagan

This is a very significant move. Need I say more? Events and calendaring are gearing up to be huge. Does this deal have anything to do with the Google Calendar rumours? Via Software Only.

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What’s wrong with MSN’s RSS search

Posted on August 31, 2005 by mfagan

News from Luigi about RSS search from MSN leads me to think MSN Search knows what they’re doing. Or not. They are putting RSS/Atom search integrated right in with their web search. This is good. But… they’re displaying RSS feeds … Continue reading →

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Google Maps API

Posted on June 29, 2005 by mfagan

Google Maps API – finally, and thank goodness. I haven’t looked at the API yet, hopefully it still leaves a place for Mikel’s fantastic worldKit. Via Google Blog. Update later June 29: also today, the Yahoo! Maps Web Service. All … Continue reading →

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