Thursday’s Yahoo Mail blackout was the source of a lot of headaches, with some 1.2 As of press time, Yahoo’s Wikipedia page has been vandalized (screenshot below) and anecdotal reports continue to pour in from users who haven’t had access to Yahoo Mail for more than 8 hours. million users said to be affected. MORE >>

My favorite filtering tool is Yahoo Pipes , which lets me filter an RSS feed using various criteria: URL, author, date, content and more. Some The image on the right contains a simple Yahoo Pipes filtering example from my SXSW presentation. Uncategorized APIs hacking rss information overload RSS SXSW Twitter Yahoo Pipes MORE >>

On Windows, GmailDefaultMaker is a handy free lightweight application that will open mailto: links in your preferred webmail client; despite its name it can route email links to Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo! It’s also a free download, and comes pre-configured for several popular webmail clients, including Yahoo! MORE >>

Mayer at the Web 2 Summit, San Francisco ( image James Duncan Davidson ) I try to let big news percolate for a few days before weighing in, and it seemes even more appropriate to follow that playbook when it came to the scrum around Marissa Mayer joining Yahoo. The coverage has taken its usual course from “Holy S**t!” customers. MORE >>

From Paid Content, a tale of two very different eras: Yahoo In 1996. Age: 1 year. Annual sales: $1.3 million. Net loss: $0.6 million. Total raised in IPO: $33.8 million. Market value at close: $848 million. Employees: 49. Facebook In 2012. Age: 8 years. Annual sales: $1.2 billion-plus. Net income: $355 million-plus (2010 estimates). MORE >>