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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

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Yahoo – Merriam-Webster defines “Yahoo” as “a boorish, crass, or stupid person.” Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.” Legend asserts that the name change from Cadabra was prompted by Yahoo’s alphabetized listing of search results.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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End users don’t care about the technical details anyway, so there has been some interesting work on standards for social activity streams and activity stream aggregation. which has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera and many others with Google and Yahoo! The standard to watch is activity strea.ms

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