Archive for the ‘Yahoo’ Category
Saturday, June 4th, 2005 |
Yahoo Japan is to start dealing in shares on the web through a tie-up with two leading brokers, highlighting the growing popularity of online trading in the country.
Link
Yahoo has tested before the blogs on the japanese market. Perhaps if this will be a success they will roll it out to other countries especially US.
As proved before on the battle with Google, Yahoo is not putting all the eggs in the same basket and is looking for good niches to back up
Posted in General, Yahoo | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005 |
Yahoo integrated today RSS news onto the mail application. On day one you have only the option to choose from premade RSSs from Yahoo News but it’s obviously that a customized version will be out soon.
I think that this is connected with the features that will be implemented this summer:
Ever since Yahoo acquired San Francisco start-up Oddpost last year, speculation has been rampant that the company will unveil a mail interface that rivals Google’s Gmail for usability. Spillane wouldn’t divulge details about that. But he said to expect two or three more big announcements by Labor Day. Clearly, something is in the works, and Spillane can barely contain his excitement about it.
“This is a big deal,” he said of Yahoo PhotoMail. “But we have two or three other things that are as big or bigger….There will be no question who’s the leader in email innovation.”
Source
Google is trying to do the same thing on Gmail for a time but only for a limited number of users.
Yahoo managed to score again 
Guillaume has been faster then me ( :p ) to post this one so check out his review with screen shots
Posted in General, Search Engines News, Yahoo | 1 Comment »
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 »
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
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 |
The public beta is getting closer. See this article
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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
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