Appendix . Reinventing Yahoo!

Since its inception by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 as “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” Yahoo! has built itself into one of the leading destinations for information and entertainment on the Web.

An Interview with Jimmy Byrum

Yahoo!’s status as a bellwether of the Web was apparent in its recent push for standards. Its implementation of Web standards and creation of tools to build standards-based Web applications has not only created a fresh, uniform look and feel, but Yahoo! has garnered a great deal of goodwill with the Web community by openly releasing its research—and the fruits of that research—on its developer site, developer.yahoo.com.

We chatted with Jimmy byrum, ...

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