Suggestion : Filtering seems to work only on object keys at the outermost level (e.g full_name in demo). It would be nice to be able to filter inner keys as well (e.g html_url in demo)
Here's an answer based on anecdotal experience; I know maybe a dozen people who have a Yahoo email address and use Yahoo as their browser home page. All of them are of my parents' generation. I think the answer to "what is working" is that Yahoo was able to acquire millions of users back in the late 90's when Yahoo was the only game in town, and many of these users are baby boomers who get very frustrated with new technology, who are familiar with the Yahoo UI due to nearly two decades of interacting with it, and who view switching to Gmail or whatever else as a hassle that is just not worth the frustration of learning how to use another platform.
I still use Yahoo Mail because GMail was changing too often and I had got tired from hunting buttons. Also you can select to see only unread emails in Yahoo. Also, if you send an HTML email to an Yahoo email address you can put the CSS in a <style> tag and Yahoo servers will deal with it nicely and the CSS will work when you read the email on Yahoo's website.
But all this Yahoo is dying nonsense did bring some changes. They modified the UI code and now, sometimes you select an email but you can't click any actions (delete etc.) because the app is confused about the state in which it is. It happent less recently.
Then they pulled Yahoo Messenger, which is how I was notified of new emails, while not having ready the mobile app.
Thankfully the mobile app is really good and I have my other account on it too.
And the ads... they are good. As oposed to google that will follow me with the same ad for weeks even if I already made my purchase or maybe it was just a curiosity. With Yahoo it's more like "here are some things people your age look at".
By writting CSS directly, never. But then you would think all the other newer, "better" companies would have this little detail fixed already. But they don't. And it becomes hugely important as soon as you open your own online shop and you want to send a proper HTML email.
Because (and I have to generalize here since this is a broad topic) partnerships can suck up a huge amount of time, with the following downsides:
1) you get introduced to customers indirectly (the partner's users), this isn't necessarily a bad thing but you'd rather have customers come directly to you.
2) the partner's objectives as a business are not your objectives, they may demand exclusivity of you or prevent you from doing business with their (the partner's) competitors. This may come to bite you if your startup grows, evolves or pivots and a better partnership comes along.
3) partnerships usually involve contracts which cost time and money.
1,2) Agree. I just wanted to get something out of the door :)
3) I didn't think of it that way. Will update it.
4) You can set the dashboard to auto refresh. The button seemed redundant as people are so used to hitting f5 or refresh icon on their browsers
5) Working on it
6) Yes. You download a local agent to your laptop. It can connect to your local databases. No need to enable remote access.
Tech questions:
Jquery-UI for drag & drop. D3 for visualizations.
This is not entirely true. Social media & blogging have indeed provided an alternative to TV news. It has actually changed the "entrenched structure". Even established media giants use tweets or posts to spread information. How many of us prefer tuning in to local news station instead of just logging into fb/t/g+ to stay updated? These platforms have been built by programmers who I am sure are happy about the impact they have created.
