In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. wasn’t seeing the feed because the system had no idea I had two accounts (and I had forgot). MORE >>

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# Overture was sold to Yahoo! Heresy. for $1.63 MORE >>

sure wish the founders of Yahoo! But for years Yahoo! If you think you’re on to a really big idea and everybody else thinks so, too, then most likely it’s already conventional wisdom and you’re too late. If – and this is a big IF – you have other ideas. It happens. ” Hallelujah. MORE >>

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, And because Delicious was bought by Yahoo! It seems the urge to be a naysayer of Twitter is really strong for some. MORE >>

Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. didn’t have any grand ambitions other than to write, share ideas and try to build awareness of who I am through my thoughts. MORE >>