Yahoo’s release of Twitter usage statistics, reported earlier this week by Mathew Ingram , presents some interesting pointers for organizations striving to build strong social media presences. According to the Yahoo study, “Organizations … devote a surprisingly small fraction of their attention to business-related news.&# MORE >>

iPhone/iPod touch only: Yahoo OneConnect is a free application that brings a handful of communication and social networking tools to your iPhone or iPod touch. Oh yeah, it works with Yahoo Messenger contacts, too.) OneConnect is a free download from the iTunes App Store, requires a Yahoo account to use. 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>