I’m just completely amazed at the amount of cool stuff that Yahoo! cranked out this year. It’s truly been the year of the product. While I was only personally involved in a few of the released, it’s great to be at a company where so much exciting stuff is happening. <\/p>\n
Here’s a list of significant acquisitions and product launches in 2005. I’ve highlighted the ones I think were the most important.<\/p>\n
Jan 10 Desktop Search released<\/a><\/strong> There’s two trends I see here – making Yahoo! a platform for developers and building community into products.<\/p>\n I’m looking forward to 2006!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m just completely amazed at the amount of cool stuff that Yahoo! cranked out this year. It’s truly been the year of the product. While I was only personally involved in a few of the released, it’s great to be at a company where so much exciting stuff is happening. Here’s a list of significant …<\/p>\n
\nJan 20 My Yahoo Ticker released<\/a>
\nFeb 2 Y!Q released<\/a>
\nFeb 9 Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox released<\/a>
\nFeb 28 Yahoo! Developer Network launched<\/a> with Yahoo! Search Web Services<\/strong>
\nMarch 10 Mobile RSS launched<\/a>
\nMarch 21 Flickr acquired<\/a><\/strong>
\nMar 23 Creative Commons Search released<\/a>
\nMar 28 Yahoo! 360 released<\/a><\/strong>
\nApr 4 Farechase Hotel Search released<\/a>
\nApr 18 Yahoo! Shopping RSS feeds<\/a>
\nApr 26 My Web 1.0 released<\/a>
\nApr 27 News Redesign released<\/a><\/strong>
\nMay 4 Video Search released<\/a>
\nMay 10 Yahoo! Music Engine<\/a> and Yahoo! Music Unlimited released <\/a><\/strong>
\nMay 18 Yahoo! Messenger Beta released<\/a><\/strong>
\nMay 25 Yahoo! Movies Recommendations launches<\/a>
\nMay 26 PhotoMail launches<\/a>
\nJun 6 Yahoo! Auctions becomes free<\/a>
\nJun 14 Blo.gs acquired<\/a>
\nJun 15 Dialpad acquired<\/a><\/strong>
\nJun 16 Subscriptions Search launches<\/a>
\nJun 28 My Web 2.0 released<\/a><\/strong>
\nJun 30 Maps API released<\/a>
\nJuly 6 Mobile SMS services released<\/a>
\nJuly 15 Yahoo! Finance RSS feeds released<\/a>
\nJuly 25 Konfabulator acquired<\/a><\/strong>
\nAug 2 Yahoo! Publisher Network released<\/a><\/strong>
\nAug 2 Shopping API released<\/a>
\nAug 3 Audio Search Beta released<\/a>
\nAug 12 Yahoo! Video Games redesign released <\/a>
\nAug 13 40% of Alibaba acquired<\/a><\/strong>
\nAug 15 Health Blogs released<\/a>
\nAug 16 Yahoo! Local redesign released<\/a>
\nAug 23 Verizon Yahoo! DSL released<\/a><\/strong>
\nAug 29 Yahoo! Mail Search Improvements <\/a>
\nAug 30 RSS feeds from Yahoo! Weather released<\/a>
\nSep 12 Kevin Sites in the Hotzone released<\/a>
\nSep 13 Mobile Shopping Search released<\/a>
\nSep 15 Yahoo! Mail Beta released<\/a> (based on Oddpost)<\/strong>
\nSep 26 Yahoo! Finance columnists<\/a>
\nOct 5 Upcoming.org acquired<\/a>
\nOct 9 Yahoo! Podcasts released<\/a><\/strong>
\nOct 10 Blog Search released<\/a>
\nOct 18 Whereonearth acquired<\/a>
\nOct 24 Richard Bangs Adventures released<\/a>
\nOct 26 Travel Trip Planner released<\/a>
\nOct 31 Yahoo! Autos Custom released<\/a>
\nNov 2 Yahoo! Maps Beta released<\/a><\/strong>
\nNov 7 Yahoo! Photos, Weather and Traffic available on TiVo<\/a>
\nDec 7 Yahoo! Answers released<\/a><\/strong>
\nDec 9 Del.icio.us acquired<\/a><\/strong>
\nNov 14 Shoposphere released<\/a>
\nNov 29 RSS Reader in Yahoo! Mail Beta released<\/a>
\nDec 1 Blog Alerts released<\/a>
\nDec 12 Konfabulator upgraded and relaunched as Yahoo! Widgets<\/a> <\/p>\n