Scott Gatz’s Blog

Seems like a busy day today, but I’m psyched that we can finally talk about the news about WordPress and Yahoo! Web Hosting. Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress) announces the WordPress on Yahoo deal.
What this means is that if you sign up for Yahoo! Web Hosting, you can now get WordPress in a one-click [...]

At last week’s Syndicate conference, I got the chance to give a lunchtime keynote in front of about 200-300 attendees (its hard to count while you are presenting ).
I walked through the work my team has been doing around RSS, gave a demo of the new Yahoo! Mail beta, and talked a little bit [...]

Last night I was invited to attend a dinner to discuss issues that marketers and aggregators are facing as people are beginning to use RSS as a marketing channel. People in traditional email marketing businesses are asking how they can deliver “One-to-one marketing” via RSS - that is, how can they track and [...]

This week is the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco.   When I went to the first Syndicate in May in NYC, I was floored at the idea that there would even be a whole conference dedicated to content syndication/RSS.   When we started working on RSS here, Dave Winer had just launched RSS 2.0 we weren’t sure [...]

I’m really excited about the news that Josh Schacter and his del.icio.us service are now part of the Yahoo! family.
I know that we’ve been talking for a long time about how to work together, and I’m so glad that its come to fruition.
I personally believe that harnessing the power of [...]

Yesterday, we put out TWO new products.    One was the much blogged about/talked about RSS Reader in the new Yahoo! Mail.    The other, was the ability to get IM, SMS or Email alerts to any RSS Feed out there.   We call it Feed/Blog Alerts and its live now on http://alerts.yahoo.com/
If you have never used Yahoo! Alerts, [...]