Yahoo Adds Capabilities to YQL

Last year, Yahoo debuted its YQL language, which lets users query, filter, and join data across web data sources or services on the web. YQL or Yahoo Query Language is based on a SQL-like language, and it helps apps run faster with fewer lines of code. Today, Yahoo announced a new feature for YQL, and that is the Insert/Update/Delete feature. A spokesperson for Yahoo tells…

Yahoo Settles Lawsuit With NFL

Yahoo and the NFL Players Association have reached a settlement over the use of players' statistics, images and other information in Yahoo's fantasy football games. Yahoo sued the NFLPA last month arguing it should not have to pay additional royalties to use players' data in its fantasy football games because the information is publicly available.

Following Up with Website Abandoners

SeeWhy shared some interesting findings from a survey of over 150 Google Analytics about website abandonment. They discussed "post session remarketing" and say it is going to grow rapidly. Post session remarketing is basically going after individual users who have abandoned your site. "Of all the techniques out there, remarketing in real-time (thru e-mail specifically) is set to grow 152 percent," a representative for SeeWhy…

Chad Ochocinco and His Tweeting Ways

The football player formerly known as Chad Johnson is ruffling some feathers with the National Football League. He has told the media that he plans to use Twitter during games. I haven't seen any official statement on this from the NFL itself yet, but sports analysts seem to pretty much agree that it's just dumb.

Will Google Chrome OS Challenge Windows?

Google has announced that it is working on an operating system based on Google Chrome (their browser). The company says the project is an attempt to "re-think what operating systems should be." The OS-in-progress is simply called Google Chrome OS,  it is open source, and it will initially be aimed at netbooks. The announcement came on the same day that Google dropped the "beta" tag…