Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day
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Tribute Videos - 164 days ago
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, tragically died today from an apparent heart attack. Whatever you thought of the guy, you can't deny his incredible influence on music over the last thirty years, and it's sad to see him go so soon. Many of my... Topics: Cool Thing du jour

Scraping along with YQL - 166 days ago
I haven't used YQL nearly enough, and I'll need to do some sort of nice overview post at some point to make amends for the general lack of coverage. But there's only 4 minutes left in the day, which does not give us time for an actual... Topics: Cool Thing du jour

Let’s Site Search! - 167 days ago
I am continually amazed by the sophistication expressed by browser bookmarklets these days -- there's almost nothing you can't do with a moderately short Javascript function embedded in a button, apparently. A particularly awesome example... Topics: Cool Thing du jour

More like Yahoo! Coolbar - 171 days ago
I'm not a heavy toolbar user -- the Awesome Bar in Firefox has only reinforced my penchant for typing out URLs (I just don't need to type out the entire thing any more) and if I need a built-in search box, I'll probably use the built-in... Topics: Cool Thing du jour

Open Sesa-My! - 173 days ago
This is another announcement that's a few weeks old but is still new over in Y! Cool Thing land -- My Yahoo! is becoming way more Open. We talked about Open Apps when they were first announced back in December, and the general idea is the same,... Topics: Cool Thing du jour




























