As an organizer and attendee of events on Upcoming, I noticed a big user experience flaw when it comes to sending notes through Upcoming.org. The problem is that when a note is sent to the attendees of an event, the email that is sent to the receiver, does not include the event that the note belongs to.
Many organizers don’t realize this either, which means that I often receive notes of which I can only barely figure out where they belong to.
Luckily, Yahoo has a suggestion board, and I posted this suggestion there to get it added. Maybe you can help this good cause and vote for it?
A while back I posted a video of my BarcampLondon3 presentation created by Tom Morris. Lucky for me Improbulus took a bit of a better video (which also shows the screen we are all looking at). If anybody is interested in seeing this again, enjoy!
So, I just had my Yahoo Pipes talk here at BarcampLondon3 at Google. It was basically a recap of this blog post, with a nice question and answer session afterwords. Cool thing though is that Tom Morris made a video of my talk and posted it to Blip.TV.
For years I have found Yahoo to be a “shit” company. This is mainly because my mother kept using Yahoo Messenger while this product proved to be very open to hackers. Frequently she asked me if I (as I am a computer science student) could write her a program to restart other people’s pc (in other words hacking) because this often happened to her. Obviously she wanted some revenge.
So I never used Yahoo, not their messenger nor their email. Strangely I do use del.icio.us and Flickr, two sites bought by Yahoo. On Flickr the presence of Yahoo is steadily growing, causing many problems recently when they forced all old-school users like me to switch to a Yahoo account. On del.icio.us though, they are not that present. On the front page they are not even named.
So what is happening here? When Google buys a product they often totally integrate that product in their own services. Is Yahoo aware of their own (bad) vibe with users, and are they becoming more of a consortium of other services besides their own brand? Maybe one day del.icio.us will also be rebranded to a Yahoo product. I must say that I like most of the newly bought Yahoo products, so on that fact they are creating a better vibe in my sense.
