Marissa Mayer’s Job Is to Be CEO—Not to Make Life Easier for Working Moms Anne-Marie Slaughter, writing at The Atlantic: So let's withhold judgment for a while and let Marissa Mayer do her job. Let's evaluate her on whether she can turn Yahoo around. I've been waiting for a piece like this, since everything I've […]
Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome At The Atlantic. Everything awesome is happening in Russia. (tagged: Cold War Nostalgia Russia Cosmodrome Baikonur ) How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet At Gizmodo. It's long (and I'll admit to having only skimmed much of it), and it's pessimistic, but a lot of it is also […]
I caught the news about Yahoo! via the DF post earlier today. And all I could think was: Well shit, that’s really shitty. I’ve felt for some time like Yahoo! is a weird beast. Before Google, Yahoo! was here I went when I wanted to search. But the company hung on as an iconic web […]
How many users have JavaScript disabled? by Nicholas Zakas (at YDN Blog): The second takeaway is that JavaScript-disabled users exist. While 2% of U.S. visitors may not seem like a lot, keep in mind that over 300 million users visit the Yahoo! homepage each month. That means 6 million users visit each month without the […]
These are my links for February 7th from 07:19 to 07:19
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS Yahoo!’s CSS-based grid system for flexible, componentized layouts… (tags: Yahoo webdesign webdev reference essay framework CSS) VoodooPad online documentation (tags: VoodooPad reference) Locomotive (tags: OSX Ruby Rails dev freeware software todo)