Facebook: Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 17:41
“We recently looked at the most shared articles in the US on Facebook over the past year. The stories range from cute to thought provoking and represent the type of news people have been sharing and discovering with friends in 2011.”
TechCrunch: Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 10:25
"Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious. YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the company, says Yahoo, via a “new Internet company, AVOS. … The YouTube founders plan to work closely with the community…
Business Insider: Exclusive: Yahoo Is About To Sell Delicious For $1-$2 Million
Friday, 18 March 2011, 00:28
"Yahoo is about to close a deal to sell bookmarking site Delicious for $1-$2 million, says a source familiar with the discussions."
ReadWriteWeb: Delicious’s Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire
Friday, 17 December 2010, 11:36
"Yahoo! blocks all automated extraction of data from Delicious. The company apparently is going to let this unique cross between a museum, a library and a crazy old collector's attic burn to the ground. I'd like to take a few things with me before that happens, please."
Financial Times Tech Blog: Yahoo plans to kill Delicious, other services
Friday, 17 December 2010, 11:32
Joseph Menn: "Delicious was also a social system ahead of its time–and that gives a glimpse of how much opportunity in the area Yahoo squandered. Users tagged stories on the web with keywords that seemed to fit, then could search on those keywords to see what others found most relevant on the topic."
ReadWriteWeb: R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 23:37
"Yahoo! announced internally today that it is closing down Delicious. It's a loss not just for the many people who used Delicious to archive links of interest to them around the web, it's a loss for the future – for what could have been. Five years later, people are just beginning to appreciate the value of passively published user activity data made available for analysis, personalization and more. That could have been you, Delicious."
Online Journalism Blog: Leaving Delicious – which replacement service will you use? (Comment call)
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 23:36
Paul Bradshaw: "if Delicious does shut down, where will you move to? Publish2? Pinboard.in? Diigo? Google Reader (sorry, not functional enough for me)? Or something else? Please post your comments."
Techcrunch: Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes]
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 23:26
Like I said in my talk to City University students a few weeks ago — never trust a third-party service to be around forever.
currybetdotnet: 5 ways that The Guardian puts external links onto web pages
Monday, 9 August 2010, 10:24
About the "5 different ways that The Guardian puts external links onto web pages."
New York Times: At Yahoo, Using Queries to Steer News Coverage
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 10:39
"Yahoo [will] on Tuesday … introduce a news blog that will rely on search queries to help guide its reporting and writing on national affairs, politics and the media."
Yahoo! Style Guide
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 11:42
"Learn how to write and edit for a global audience through best practices from Yahoo!"
NYTimes.com: With Hirings, Yahoo Steps Up News Coverage
Friday, 2 April 2010, 22:21
"Yahoo has recruited nearly a dozen journalists from traditional and online media outlets and opened a bureau in Washington to push into original content and increase the popularity of its online news site."
Editor & Publisher: More Readers Skimming Google Headlines Than Going Directly to Newspaper Web Sites?
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 15:46
"The 'News Users 2009' study conducted by Outsell Research affiliate analyst Ken Doctor found that 19% of people accessed Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL News for news in 2009, up from 10% in 2006. For newspapers, 19% of those polled went there first, a drop from 23% in 2006. … Fully 44% of those polled said they scan headlines on Google 'without accessing the newspaper sites,' the report said."
Washington City Paper: Eyewitness Confirms: D.C. Cop Freaks Out Over Snowball Fight–Brandishes Gun
Sunday, 20 December 2009, 14:28
Interesting example of a local story with much information added to the local paper's account via material uploaded to Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, blogs etc…
