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, a pattern continuing in the most recent quarter under new chief executive Carol Bartz. There’s been some question about whether this strategy can “save” Yahoo, and while it seems unlikely… Continue Reading
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 for a period until latency issues improved. It’s not clear if the problems have been fixed for everyone yet, though, or what the problems were. As of this writing, Yahoo… Continue Reading
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 Whale, but instead of not being able to see what everyone is doing for happy hour, people are losing real dollars on real ad investments.
I’ve heard that when serving ads,… Continue Reading
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 new CEO
7. Stormfisher raises $350 million for biofuel project
8. Cable veteran Philip Balboni moving to online news site
9. Nielsen buys Audience Analytics
10. Air commuter conference coming up this spring
11. Report:… Continue Reading