Archive for May, 2005
Saturday, May 28th, 2005
What is Mindset? A new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources).
Link
Some tests already performed with its relevancy
My quick question:
If you do a query like site:www.sitename.com, on a blog that has the same type of content why you get different results 
But a promising demo after all. I want to see it integrated in the official search
Good job Yahoo 
Edit:
Here you have an interesting test. I laughed a lot while looking at Microsoft results
Posted in Search Engines News, Yahoo | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 26th, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is introducing a test version of a new service called PhotoMail that lets users insert up to 300 digital photographs into the body of an e-mail and store an unlimited numbers of photos on the Web and media company’s computers.
Full article
More details
And…the future is here
The only minus I see…is that is for IE only
Posted in General, Yahoo | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Google’s failure in fixing the 302 redirect problem is causing them problems again
Full article
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
When Google bought Hello perhaps they had some big plans with it, some of them being to use the IM platform. Unfortunately after the aquisition nothing big happened and very few users know of this software.
Now, with the new Yahoo messenger this is software is made obsolete, YIM incorporating it’s features through the photo sharing service.
Too bad that Google bought the software without promoting and developing it
Posted in Google, Yahoo | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
Get it here
Free worldwide calls.*
Use Yahoo! Messenger to call and talk over the Internet just like you’re on the phone. All you need is a headset, or a microphone and speakers. It’s that easy - just click the Call button. If no one’s there, leave a voicemail!
You can also get much better sound quality than regular phone lines. Try it out - you and your friends will really hear a difference.
Drag-and-drop photos
Need something to talk about? Just drag and drop pictures into your IM window to share them with your friends.
Find, add, share friends…
It’s easier than ever to add and invite friends to Messenger. You can even send your contact information to a friend’s Address Book.
Plus lots more, including:
* Drag-and-drop file transfer
* Custom ring tones
* Support for USB headsets
* Contact cards for one-click communication and access to Address Book
* Easier access to Yahoo! Search
* Indicators for new Yahoo! Mail, new voicemail, and updated Yahoo! 360° content
* New tabs for Yahoo! Buzz Index and Entertainment Tonight
* Maintain control with spam reporting
Posted in General, Yahoo | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
SANTA CRUZ, CA – May 18, 2005 – Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE:PLT) today unveiled the new Yahoo! ready .Audio™ 70 multimedia headset, designed to optimize PC-to-PC Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication using the public beta of the next generation version of Yahoo! Messenger.
Press release
Posted in Yahoo | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
The public beta is getting closer. See this article
Posted in Yahoo | No Comments »
Monday, May 16th, 2005
Lately I saw that Technorati doesn’t respond on all tags while indexing and they seem to count only WP categories names.
Here is a good post and a detailed response from Technorati
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Saturday, May 14th, 2005
For a few days I started wondering when a new Yahoo Messenger version will come up. Today I found out the first rumors (article removed by author)
I’ll keep an eye on technorati for further details
EDIT:
Here is a better post and some other usefull informations. Thanks Guillaume
EDIT 2:
Some Features of v7.0 (Beta) :
- Contact Card (like MSN 7)
- New Audibles have being added up.
- Mail address or websites typed on the conversation windows are changed to hyperlinks and underlined.
- Cleaner neater interface Looks (better than v6.0)
- New Entertainment Tab (in place of LaunchCast)
- Couple of new options for Archiving
- Audibles with CAPTIONS (something you should wait for !)
- Send File Integrated in Messenger Window (Like MSN)
Via GO4i.NET
Posted in General, Yahoo | 2 Comments »
Friday, May 13th, 2005
For quite a long time I have noticed on Yahoo Blog a link to Google’s Official Blog. I thought it was quite a nice thing to do and a rare thing in this business where links have the value they have.
Now is Google’s time to make their step.
Congratulations. Better later than never
Edit
That’s fun they even listed Jeremy’s blog I like the guy for his unconventional style to write bout Google’s mistakes
Posted in General, Google, Yahoo | No Comments »
