Yahoo freestyle design competitions yield pay-offs
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"Hack Days" -- 24-hour day-and-night programming competitions -- result in a maps mashup, shop-by-color feature and other innovations that the company can commercialize.
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As more applications move to the Web, companies like Yahoo are working to nourish their "ecosystem" of software developers.
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Rules for the Rocky Balboa contest.
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For anyone keeping up with the PHP 5 Programming Contest that Zend hosted - the final results have been posted!
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Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz had the chance to pose a question to representatives of the major search engines which has been on the minds of many within the industry; &#8220;how do the engines feel about pay-per-post services on blogs, where advertisers can buy links and product reviews?&#8221; The responses, as Rand reports, were surprising: Yahoo&#8217;s Tim Converse [...]
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Two new tools have grown out of Yahoo's Internal Hack Days, all-day events when the company's employees are encouraged to experiment with its publicly-available data services. One mashup lets users overlay their own map imagery over Yahoo's, and the other lets shoppers search for products similar in color to the one they want.
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After months of diminishing market share in the search industry, Microsoft may have found the answer to competing against Google and Yahoo: Chicktionary. The addictive game, which is available on the Live Search Club site, rewards users with prizes such as software.
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The future of journalism is in your hands. That was the message yesterday as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation handed out more than $11 million in prize money to various bloggers and computer programmers, and organizations ranging from MIT to MTV, for proposals that will empower ordinary people to participate in digital media.
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A Web blockbuster is evolving to try to stay ahead of rivals.
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Anyone for strip poker? Yahoo! folk have thrown a large web 2.0 ball at their search engine by giving it a makeover in an effort to grab market share from rival internet firm Google.â¦
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php|architect has a new note today about a contest that PHP-Editors is putting on...
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More and more young designers are gambling on the mass market. But is it all risk and no profit?
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: New Yahoo Bidding Information - Internet Advertisers Want Sales Not Branding - Strategy Needed for New International Site - Yahoo Integrates Answers Into Search Results, and more.
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Yahoo! has another healthy quarter on the strength of paid search.
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Blog: The arrival of the Yahoo Photos horde has disrupted the statistical popularity contests on display at the Flickr camera finder site.
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Search Engine Friendly Design and Coding (Especially Flash)  Its been almost a year since I attended a session of this nature. I was not too impressed last time, so I am hoping things have changed within the year. Brett introduces the panel, by saying its the first time WMW is doing ...
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As previously mentioned, Nick Halstead will be revealing the top three places in the results from the programming competition he was hosting. Today starts the top three list with third place - an entry from Karol Grecki:   I was really impressed with Karol's entry and if it was not for the fact that it did not 'run out of the box' it would have been a close cut thing to be the winner. The fact is that because it was a pain to get running the two other judges only gave it 1 point each.   The post includes Karol's solution - a method that involved using the Zend Framework as a backdrop. You can see the application in action on Karol's website or just download the code and play along at home.