Is it just me, or is del.icio.us more flaky since it was bought by Yahoo?

I go to the west of Ireland for a weekend, and Yahoo buys del.icio.us. I can't leave you people out of my sight for a minute, can I?

For a moment, I thought I'd be able to ditch my multi-network software in favour of a single IM client.

So yahoo have broken third-party interop with their messaging network again. My sole reason for getting a yahoo account was because someone organised a party using yahoo's mailing list doohickey, and I've only hung around because my mother uses yahoo as her IM client. Now I can't connect to it unless I use their official client, which - on unix - ( Read more... )

We'll sign all the messages and have the ISP check the signature!

Mostly content-free article about Orkut on News.com. It does mention that there are only three engineers working on the system, but most of the rest seems to be handwaving. I was interested in the comment from the Yahoo! guy; technically, Yahoo! is probably the longest-standing social network of them all, so they should have a lot more useful ( Read more... )