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Moving On. August 19, 2008 on 12:04 pm | by ayman

End of summer. The beginning of the 2008 academic year. It’s a time when we start to think about our accomplishments and ask ourselves ‘what’s next?’. To date, Yahoo! Research Berkeley rocked. We released several project prototypes, published work in major conferences, and gave talks around the world. Most importantly, our work has now become part of what’s next for Yahoo! - which jives with what our lab set out to do in its charter. Zync is now a key video sharing component in Yahoo! Messenger. The ZoneTag cell spotting is incorporated into Y!Go 3.0. We transformed Fire Eagle into reality (and watched it launch publicly last week). And there’s more on the way.

Part of graduation is moving on. While our work continues to filter into the real world, so do we. The Yahoo! Research Berkeley team has been largely assimilated into different parts of Yahoo!. You can find our “graduates” and “alumni” all over the place: from Yahoo! Brickhouse to Yahoo! Research to Flickr, Yahoo! Mobile, and Yahoo! Groups.

As our work here is done, this blog will no longer be active. We don’t want to leave you without a fair share of entertainment, so let us list a few choices. You can check out new things that are happening in research at Yahoo! You can also follow us individually on various fronts. Ayman and Naaman take their show on the road right here with rants and complaints galore. The Racing Geek is posting his thoughts on technology (and racing). Some of our super-interns are posting their thoughts as well - check out Ryan, Dean, Chris (we are still learning from them!).

Finally, you can continue to follow some of our projects via a new venue; some of you have seen us posting there already.

See you in the future!

All of us on the Y!RB Team.