Nicolae Sfetcu

RTML is a proprietary programming language used by Yahoo!'s Yahoo! Store and Yahoo! Site hosting products.

Yahoo! Inc. is a computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail.

David Filo is the somewhat media-shy co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.

A native of Moss Bluff, Louisiana, he earned his BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University and an MS from Stanford University.

Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server program, written in C, would provide Filo Server Pages that brokered requests from the Yahoo home page.

As a philanthropist, in 2005 he donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University.

People

Yahoo! Buzz is a community-based news article website, much like Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their's or another person's site that links to a full story of the information, therefore driving traffic to that person's website and creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories, such as CNN or smaller, privately owned websites.

Other Services

AlltheWeb is a major search engine. It was debuted in mid-1999 introduced by Fast Search and Transfer and used primarily as a show piece site. Fast started their search engine in 1997. Although rivalling Google in size and technology, AlltheWeb never became as popular.

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