Well, another end-of-an-era is upon us.  Verizon (owner of Yahoo!) is shuttering yahoo groups.  This is a service that I've used on-and-off since the late 90s.  Early in my college days we used it as an asynchronous place to meet with people that we knew from Yahoo! Chat (which was synchronous).  This spawned groups like Ελληνικό Καφενείο, which was tied tot

Another one bites the dust - at least for me.  In 2018, after 10 years of using Tumblr I decided to stop using this service (it's questionable how long it will be around anyway).  Initially, early in September I lost access to my account.  I had enabled 2FA (2 factor authentication) but none of the the security tokens on my 2FA application would work.  Argh...   After

Yahoo Messager "classic", the service that existed when I was in high school and college has been defunct for a little while now, but Yahoo! decided to reinvent itself in the messaging app business by revamping...or rather starting a new service and a new app and calling that yahoo messenger.  This also included Yahoo's own version of a two factor authenticator which I actually rather

Τέλος εποχής λοιπόν για το Yahoo! Messenger, ή όπως το γνωρίσαμε αρχικά: Yahoo! Pager! Τις προάλλες είδα στα νέα πως στις 5 Αυγούστου η Yahoo θα πάψει πια να υποστηρίζει τα API που χρησιμοποιεί το original messenger. Αυτό που δεν είχα συνειδητοποιήσει

Well...another service bites the dust!  This time around Yahoo is cleaning house with Yahoo Screen.  It's pretty funny because a day or so before I read the news of the closure of the service I deleted the app from my iPad.  I had originally downloaded the app in order to view the last season of Community.  Once I finished that (and I sure did take my sweet time to watch

The other day I finished (finally) watching the Yahoo Screen sponsored (produced?) season of community.  I am not sure if this is the series finale, but the little bit at the end was hilarious :-) I don't think there is a spoiler, but if there is, you've been warned:

Well, another useful piece of the internet is pulling the curtains as its show is complete.  Yahoo Pipes was an interesting "Web 2.0" service that came out when we were all hot and heavy on RSS-goodness, and had open ways to get content from one site, remix it with another, and create our own new thing. At the time of its announcement I was listening to a Greek Podcast by vrypan, and other

Well, I think that I will call this the year the Year of the Web 2.0 Bubble Burst.This collapse has claimed another victim, Yahoo!'s own Social Network, Yahoo! 360. I have a Yahoo! 360 account (you probably saw it as one of my social networks on my homepage start page), but I guess I will be removing it from there soon given that Yahoo will be decommissioning the service in mid July. This just goes

Πάει και το καφενέιο :-( Πραγματικά μεγάλη εποχή που μας πέρασε, πρέπει να γράψω για αυτό κάποια στιγμή αφού ήταν μέγαλο κομμάτι της ζωής μου για αρκετό καιρό (και εκεί γνωρίσαμε παλιούς καλούς φίλους) Να τι έγραψε η Κάτοχος

Είδα το σχετικό άρθρο στο TUAW χτες.Με την νέα αναβάθμιση 10.5.3 μπορείς πια να συγχρονίσεις τα ονόματα του iPhone σου με το Google, και φυσικά με το Yahoo! Το σπαστικό είναι πως αυτή η δυνατότητα υπάρχει μόνο εάν έχεις ένα iPhone συγχρονισμένο