Hackday imminent

June 14th, 2007 @ 12:44 comments(0)

This weekend is hackday in London. I’m looking forward to it as it will be my first. It’ll be nice to catch up with people I haven’t seen in a while as well as building some fun stuff. We have a whole load of extra music related feeds available on the day which are normally internal, so we’re hoping people are going to build some fun stuff with them.

Filed Under: BBC, Yahoo, geek, hacking

del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family

December 9th, 2005 @ 20:53 comments(0)

Blimey, Yahoo has bought del.icio.us. There can’t be many more startups available for purchase.

Filed Under: Yahoo, delicious

Yahoo buys konfabulator

July 25th, 2005 @ 21:30 comments(0)

So I’m sure most people have read today that Yahoo have bought Konfabulator. This I guess is good for MAC/PC users as you no longer have to pay for it. I messed around with it at work a while back and then promptly uninstalled it as it kept saying ‘register me!’ all the time. Now we also all know that Apple has Dashboard in it’s latest OSX build. I’m sure everyone has seen a ‘Apple ripped of Konfabulator‘ story.

Because of the work I did on the BBC Listen Live widget and the many requests we are getting for a ‘Konfabulator‘ version I thought I would have a bit of a look into that. After much searching I have to say I don’t think it is possible? It seems that you can’t embed the RealPlayer plugin into a Konfabulator widget and this is why no-one else has managed to create one yet.

It seems that the fact that you can use web technologies in Dashboard makes it way more powerful. I would be interested if anyone knows any different?

Filed Under: Yahoo, Widgets, Konfabulator

Yahoo buys Flickr

March 21st, 2005 @ 10:05 comments(0)

Well it was only a matter of time I guess. It seems that Yahoo has bought flickr and Ludicorp. I initally though ‘oh dear’, but I guess this could be a good thing. After all Yahoo has lots of cash. Just as long as the concept remains the same.

My biggest concern though, are we going to start to see adverts and the whole horrible yahooness take over the flickr site. I really hope not.

Filed Under: Yahoo, Flickr