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Happy 13th Birthday, Yahoo!

Aww, how cute… Yahoo homepage back in 1995:

Yahoo! homepage in 1995

Yahoo!

Glen Scott

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Fixing Yahoo Mail Push Problem on iPhone

For the last few weeks, the Mail functionality has been broken on my iPhone. When looking at the Inbox, I had one message that said “Load another 25 messages…”, and selecting this did nothing. I scoured the web, and found a couple of possible solutions: resetting the iPhone, removing the mail account and setting it up again, but neither of these worked for me. Finally, though, I have found a solution and can enjoy Mail again:

  • log into Yahoo! Mail on your desktop machine, not your iPhone.
  • Create a new folder called temp

Adding a new folder in Yahoo! Mail

  • Choose the ‘Select All Messages’ option from the ‘More Actions’ menu in your Inbox

Selecting all messages in Yahoo! Mail

  • Move messages to the temp folder

Moving mail to temp folder in Yahoo! Mail

  • Check on your iPhone that your Inbox is empty: you may need to refresh
  • Move messages back from temp to Inbox

Bingo!

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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Yahoo! Opens up Search Platform

This open search platform enables 3rd parties to build and present the next generation of search results. There are a number of layers and capabilities that we have built into the platform, but our intent is clear — present users with richer, more useful search results so that they can complete their tasks more efficiently and get from “to do” to “done.”

Yahoo! Search Blog: An Open Approach to Search

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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Yahoo! Buzz Launches

Yahoo! Buzz features the most popular stories right now, determined by people around the Web. A story’s Buzz Score is based on your votes, searches, emails, and more.

Yahoo! Buzz

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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Updated: Yahoo! Maps plug-in

Plug-inI’ve updated the plug-in so it’s now a Universal Binary:

Yahoo! Maps Plug-in for Apple Address Book

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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Search engine snippets, part 2

This is a follow-up to my earlier post, Search engine snippets. My site has now got a meta description tag and Google and Yahoo have both picked up on it:

Google:

Google snippet for glenscott.co.uk

Yahoo:

Yahoo snippet for glenscott.co.uk

Google shows just the content of the meta description tag, whilst Yahoo also adds some content from the top of my blog.

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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links for 2008-02-21

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Glen Scott

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Search engine snippets

An interesting comparison of what content the two main search engines have chosen to display for my blog:

Google:

Google search result for 'glen scott'

Yahoo!:

Yahoo! search result for 'glen scott'

Google seems to have just picked up the footer of my site , whereas Yahoo has picked up the header, some post content and the footer.

At the moment, there is no meta description on the page which I’ll add soon to see how the listings change.

Glen Scott

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Yahoo Maps Plug-in for Apple Address Book

I’ve put together a tiny plug-in for the Address Book application in Mac OS X that allows you to view a map of your contacts addresses:

Yahoo! Maps Plug-in for Apple Address Book

Glen Scott

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Yahoo! reject Microsoft bid

What’s Yahoo’s plan B?

It’s highly likely that we’ve already heard Yahoo’s plan B on its earnings conference call just before the Microsoft bid. Given that fact this Yahoo rejection is really just the start of negotiations. Yahoo has turned down Microsoft, but the game is far from over.

Yahoo reportedly says no to Microsoft, but the game is far from over

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