{"id":283,"date":"2008-06-19T21:29:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T04:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2008-06-19T23:25:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T06:25:06","slug":"do-i-still-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/06\/do-i-still-yahoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I still Yahoo!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common point of debate within Yahoo! was whether employees should feel compelled to use Y properties (&#8220;eat your own dogfood&#8221;) or whether said properties should have to compete on pure merit to earn internal usage. But in any case, there&#8217;s always pressure, even if subliminal, to use internal products.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve free of such influence for six weeks now. What Yahoo! services do I still use? Which ones not so much?<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Answers: not so much. Even the 1 point-per-day for visiting doesn&#8217;t entice me. If I had a burning question that would be a good fit for a community answer, I&#8217;d go back.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Mail: all the time. I used Yahoo mail long before I worked there, and I&#8217;ll be using it long after.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo News: almost daily. Still a good collection of global, national, and local news.<\/p>\n<p>My Yahoo &amp; Finance: multiple times daily. I&#8217;ve peeked at iGoogle, but the Y is too comfy, and the competion isn&#8217;t easy enough to get comfortable with. But often the page takes up to 30 seconds to load. If that doesn&#8217;t improve, I&#8217;ll leave.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Search: still my default. But only because of tweaks I put in place with <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/searchmonkey\/\">SearchMonkey<\/a>. The baseline quality of results is right on par with Google. I still recommend Y search to friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Maps: rarely used. Google maps is just better, particularly street view.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo 360: Abandoned. Tons of site bugs, no fixes on the horizon. In fact, they&#8217;ve announced shuttering of the service, to be replaced with some unspecified alternative. But who knows when that will happen? So the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.360.yahoo.com\/meadblog\">Meadblog<\/a> is on hold until further notice. I&#8217;ll still check once in a while for postings from friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo front page: Still use it to check whether wireless is working. Most often with ping, not HTTP though. :-)<\/p>\n<p>What Yahoo services do you still use? Comment below. -m<\/p>\n<p>Update: a few more inspired by the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Delicious: still use, mainly through the browser extension.<\/p>\n<p>Flickr: still use, but I&#8217;m not much of a photos guy. I&#8217;ll be using it again shortly to upload screenshots for a blog-post tutorial I&#8217;m writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common point of debate within Yahoo! was whether employees should feel compelled to use Y properties (&#8220;eat your own dogfood&#8221;) or whether said properties should have to compete on pure merit to earn internal usage. But in any case, there&#8217;s always pressure, even if subliminal, to use internal products. 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