Yahoo’s Open Strategy adds Picnik, Mint.com, and others

Yahoo’s Open Strategy adds Picnik, Mint.com, and others

Yahoo continues to push forward with its “Open Strategy” — which allows third-party applications to plug into services like Yahoo Mail and make those services more social — with the addition of several new applications today.

Yahoo, of course, has been struggling for a while now,… Continue Reading

Yahoo’s Right Media ad exchange was so broken some turned it off

Yahoo’s Right Media ad exchange was so broken some turned it off

After Yahoo confirmed it has been experiencing problems with latency at its Right Media exchange on Monday, I’ve heard from those at ad networks using RXM, verifying latency issues were widespread. How bad was it? One Right Media client actually turned off Right Media exchange… Continue Reading

Is Latency Crippling Yahoo’s Right Media? Yep.

Is Latency Crippling Yahoo’s Right Media? Yep.

Right Media, an online ad exchange that Yahoo acquired in 2007, is having some serious technical hiccups, sources within the online ad world tell us. This is leading to problems with capacity and latency. Think messaging service Twitter and its formerly-frequent use of the Fail… Continue Reading

Roundup: Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down, Montalvo’s mobile chip and more

Roundup: Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down, Montalvo’s mobile chip and more

1. Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down
2. Montalvo Systems vs. Intel, with chip for handheld devices
3. Fox Interactive to introduce “music Hulu for MySpace”
4. Yahoo’s board moving against Yang
5. Google searchers are wealthier, buy more online
6. Xobni hires Jeff Bonforte away from Yahoo, to be its… Continue Reading