{"id":9565,"date":"2014-09-26T12:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=9565"},"modified":"2014-11-21T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T18:24:05","slug":"yahoo-to-shut-down-qwiki-yahoo-education-and-the-yahoo-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/yahoo-to-shut-down-qwiki-yahoo-education-and-the-yahoo-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo To Shut Down Qwiki, Yahoo Education And The Yahoo Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo announced today it\u2019s shuttering a handful of products, including Qwiki, a mobile app Yahoo acquired last July for $50 million, which helps users create movies from the photos and videos in their Camera Roll. Also getting the boot are Yahoo Education, a site designed to connect users to educational content and providers, as well as Yahoo Directory, the 20-year old listing of websites which is how old people used to browse the web. Yahoo says that the Yahoo Directory will be shut down on December 31, 2014 and Qwiki, the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2010 winner, will be closed down on November 1st.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/yahoo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/yahoo1-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"yahoo\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/yahoo1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/yahoo1-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/yahoo1-195x110.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/yahoo1.jpg 1684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View original story <a title=\"Yahoo To Shut Down Qwiki, Yahoo Education And The Yahoo Directory\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/09\/26\/yahoo-to-shut-down-qwiki-yahoo-education-and-the-yahoo-directory\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Yahoo suppose to launch Axis search tonight.  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Also getting the boot are Yahoo Education, a site designed to connect users to educational content and providers, as well&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/yahoo-to-shut-down-qwiki-yahoo-education-and-the-yahoo-directory\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[961,1],"tags":[2217,297],"class_list":["post-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-uncategorized","tag-qwiki","tag-yahoo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-2uh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9568,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions\/9568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}