Yahoo! is a big company, and there are many ways to watch Yahoo! in action.
Whether you’re a potential employee, investor, competitor, or just a fan of the site, you’ll want to keep tabs on what Yahoo! is doing and where it may be headed. The news sources in this hack should give you a starting point for watching the company, and you can add the RSS feeds for the sources directly to My Yahoo! or your favorite newsreader. Once you subscribe to a few Yahoo!-related feeds, you won’t have any trouble keeping up with the latest news.
You can use Yahoo! to find information about anything in the world, even Yahoo! itself:
- Yahoo! News Search
Search over 7,000 news sources to find mentions of Yahoo! in news stories:
- Yahoo! Finance Search
Track the progress of Yahoo!’s stock and find financial news and analysis at Yahoo! Finance:
- Yahoo! Search Blog
This official weblog from Yahoo!, written by Yahoo! employees and special guest bloggers, gives you the inside scoop on what’s new at Yahoo!:
- Yahoo! Web Services Blog
Find out what’s happening with Yahoo! Search Web Services at this official weblog:
- Yahoo! 360 Product Blog
The Yahoo! 360 development team keeps a weblog with the latest updates and offerings at Yahoo! 360:
- Yahoo! Jobs
Discover where Yahoo! is hiring with Yahoo! HotJobs:
- Yahoo! Next
Yahoo! promotes their latest projects at this site, and you can be sure the latest and greatest Yahoo! offerings will show up here:
- Yahoo! Research
Yahoo! Research is a group within Yahoo! that works on pushing the technology envelope. This site covers who they are and what they’re working on:
- Everything Yahoo!
This page points to virtually every Yahoo! site, and it’s worth visiting periodically to get a general overview of Yahoo! offerings:
Not everything is available at Yahoo! Here are a few other news sources that frequently have information about Yahoo!:
- CNET News.blog: Yahoo
CNET has a special weblog devoted to Yahoo!-related news:
- The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog
This is a Weblogs, Inc., production that focuses on Yahoo!:
- Wired News
Wired News keeps tabs on the entire tech industry, and a search for Yahoo! will yield many articles:
- John Battelle’s Searchblog
John writes about search engines and follows Yahoo! closely:
- Search Engine Watch Blog
This is a Jupitermedia weblog that follows all major search engines, including Yahoo!:
- ResearchBuzz: Yahoo
Tara Calishain covers all aspects of Internet research, and her Yahoo! category is continually updated:
- Google News
A search for Yahoo! at Google will yield news across hundreds of sources:
Yahoo! has over 7,600 employees, so it makes sense that some keep personal journals via weblogs. Most employee weblogs aren’t connected with the company in any way, and you might not learn much about Yahoo! from them. But tune in to a few for a while and you’ll definitely see the company in a new way.
Tip
Yahoo! provides official blogging guidelines to their employees. You can read them at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/yahoo/yahoo-blog-guidelines.pdf.
Here are a few employees with weblogs:
- Jeremy Zawodny
Jeremy is probably the most outspoken Yahoo! employee in the blogosphere, and he frequently discusses Yahoo! on his weblog:
- Russell Beattie Notebook
If you’re interested in Yahoo! Mobile—and mobile products in general—be sure to tune into Russell’s weblog:
- Jeffrey McManus
Jeffery works on developer.yahoo.net, and this is his personal weblog:
- Little. Yellow. Different.
Ernie Hsiung has been writing his weblog for years, and at the time of this writing he’s working on the weblog features of Yahoo! 360:
- Ravi’s Blog
- Premshree’s Personal Weblog
Premshree is a self-described hacker and is a contributor to this book:
- Ian C. Roger’s Y! blog
Ian works for Yahoo! Music and writes about web technology on his Yahoo! 360 blog:
You can probably spot many more employee weblogs by browsing to Yahoo! Search (http://search.yahoo.com) and typing in the phrase "I work at Yahoo" weblog or "I work for Yahoo" weblog.
Even though these sources don’t pass through an editor, and the content isn’t produced by professionals, these sources can provide a unique perspective on the company, point to interesting personal opinions, or refer you to obscure bits of information about Yahoo!:
- Flickr Photos
Public photos tagged with Yahoo! at Flickr are often photos by employees, pictures from Yahoo! campuses, or pictures from Yahoo! events:
- del.icio.us
The social bookmarks service del.icio.us has hundreds of people swapping links, and every day there are several dozen tagged with
Yahoo!:- Furl
Like del.icio.us, Furl is a way to share links, and you can tune into the Yahoo! headlines:
- Technorati
Use Technorati to find weblog posts that mention Yahoo!. Technorati’s Yahoo! tag page also pulls in content from Flickr, del.icio.us, and Furl:
- Daypop
Daypop is another weblog search that can point out mentions of Yahoo! across the blogosphere:
- Yahoo!-related Yahoo! Groups
Check out the Yahoo! category on Yahoo! Groups to see what Yahoo!-related topics people are discussing:
It would be impossible to track everything Yahoo! is doing on a daily basis, but subscribing to a combination of these sources should help keep you in the Yahoo! loop.
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