Archive for the ‘Yahoo’ Category
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 |
Yahoo has launched a new product called Yahoo Buzz and its likely have same motif with our Kevin Rose one -Digg.com.
By the way, Yahoo Buzz has what Digg.com doesn’t. Yahoo Buzz has a subject’s buzz score. It’s the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
Buzz index data is collected from Yahoo! search log files. The Yahoo! Buzz Index counts the total number of people searching for specific subjects. Individual users and their searches remain completely anonymous.
If you go to buzz.yahoo.com today you’ll find a page with top search results trends. But if Valleywag is correct, that site will be the future home of Yahoo! Buzz.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 |
Mobile communications that will bring your world to life.
It’s time for a revolution—for a new way of communicating that starts with your mobile phone. Yahoo! oneConnect™ will be the first product that brings it all together—your people, your life, the ways you communicate—seamlessly, into the palm of your hand.
Stay in touch with anyone, any way you want.
With Yahoo! oneConnect you’ll be free to use all your favorite communications tools and services to connect with anyone, at anytime. From IM or text, email or social networks; Yahoo! oneConnect intends to integrate all the ways you communicate into a unique, mobile experience. Imagine having all your contact information at your fingertips; email, phone numbers, text, and IM addresses; in one location—your phone.
See your friends in a whole new light.
Keep up with your social life with Yahoo! oneConnect and stay in the moment with your people. It’s designed to let you view new postings on Facebook®, photos on MySpace or a connection on LinkedIn®. See who’s online, available or nearby, based on your friends’ up-to-the-minute actions. Yahoo! oneConnect keeps a pulse on your people, delivering the most current action, right to your phone.
so here the press release (pdf file)
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 |
Yahoo! Mail has long been my email provider of choice. However, recently, I’ve been using it for more than its intended purpose of email. With Yahoo! now offering unlimited storage space, it has opened up a wide range of possibilities when it comes to uses. For example, I’ve begun to use it to archive all of my important documents, much like a filing cabinet. Having a back up document online gives me a great comfort that I’ll always have what I need no matter what happens to my original document.
To make this work, one needs several things:
* A Yahoo! email account -Their free, but since I use Yahoo! email at work and for my own business, I’ve upgraded to Mail Plus to eliminate the ads that appear as taglines at the bottom of individual emails on the free account.
* An email folder labeled “Docs” - I prefer tags, as folders are pretty one-dimensional, but, alas, folders are what we’re given with which to work. On the left sidebar, click on the “add” link beside “My Folders” and create the folder. Label it “Docs”
* A Yahoo! AddressGuard disposable address - One of the slickest things Yahoo has provided is the disposable address. Designed to thwart web sites that ask you for an email address and then flood it with Bacn, we exploit it to serve a different purpose. It takes the form of a base name (it never changes) and a keyword (an extra word of your choosing) separated by a hyphen. The result looks like this: basename-keyword@yahoo.com (Don’t try clicking on the link to the left, your email ain’t going anywhere!). The concept is simple: Create a disposable address to register for things online. When the spam (or Bacn) begins to flood your email inbox, you simply kill the disposable address and the spam stops. Your original Yahoo! email address is protected and still available to use for personal emailing. You then create another disposable address and begin the process all over. Sweet, huh?
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007 |
Now, mac user can interact with their friends whos are using yahoo messenger. Yahoo has launched their mac version to become a great developers and services.
Yahoo Messenger Mac Version also includes same features as Windows version. Mac user still can Use a webcam to share live video with your friends and family, Express your feelings over IM with these animated smiling faces, Join a live group chat room to discuss a variety of topics or even transfer files to share with their friends. Just drag and drop. it’s same as Windows version. Very easy. But, what are very different is their interface. Windows user, don’t be angry. this version of YM so beautiful. Its developed special to mac, u know. Then, its must be like that. If they don’t, their apps can’t stand on Mac.
This version also include:
* Stealth settings
* Conferencing
* “New IM” indicator in the OS X dock
* Tabbed conversations
* Message archiving
* Stay connected from your mobile phone
* Automatic updates
..//Stay connected
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007 |
AOL — this blog’s parent company — has launched a redesigned home page, and you know, there’s something awfully familiar about the layout. We just can’t quite put our finger on it.
The portal’s easier to navigate, has a nice set of links on the lefthand side — oh yeah, and it looks almost exactly like the Yahoo! home page.
The wise-crackers at digg are having a field day with this one. One of our favorite quotes:
“What are you talking about? This is *so* not a rip-off of Yahoo. For example: Whereas Yahoo has search links of: Web, Images, Video, Local, Shopping …the AOL site has links of Web, Images, *News*, and Local.
You could make the case that this is an intuitive web design for any company to follow, but it does look awfully similar.
For a company trying to reinvent itself as a web portal rather than a internet service provider, AOL really needs to focus on new and innovative services rather than playing a game of follow the leader by copying sites like Google, digg and Yahoo!.
Of course, we have to admit that investing in a blogging network was a great start.
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