Nobody Wants to Hear Lloyd, originally uploaded by mlaaker.

Shortly before I left the halls of Island Def Jam to come to Yahoo!, the company began promoting little-known Atlanta artist Lloyd on their Murder Inc. sub-label. After one spin, I smelled a stinker, and said so.
“No, no, no. Lloyd’s gonna be hot,” I heard.
Today, at [...]

MyBlogLog has been on a tear lately, releasing FOAF support, XFN support, and verification of sites.
Most interesting to me, however, has been their quiet rollout of MicroID support last week. ClaimID quickly posted, Fred Stutzman followed suit, and the MicroID blog alerted folks as well.
MicroID, for the uninitiated, is a snippet of code (which [...]

My good colleague Max recently released his Yahoo! Media Player Wordpress plugin. This add-on uses the Yahoo! Media Player, recently released on the Developer Network, to automatically create an embedded MP3/audio player for every link to an audio file you have in your posts (or every file linked from an XSPF playlist).
Additionally, Max’s plugin makes [...]

Tom Coates recently announced the news I’d been dying to share: Yahoo! will be hosting an open Hack Day in London this June.
We have all the official information up on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog, as well as the official open Hack Day site.
And, as with last year’s event here in Sunnyvale, this will [...]

One of the great benefits of working at Yahoo! is participating with a diverse pool of colleagues in our quarterly Hack Day competitions. Google has its weekly “20% time,” where individuals go off and build whatever they’d like; Yahoo! takes a less time-intensive, but fundamentally different, approach which really resonates with me:

Every 3 months, [...]