Oh my God, they killed the dashboard!
January 2006:
Yahoo! Go Desktop
Yahoo! Go Desktop is a suite of applications that will make it easy for consumers to keep up-to-date on and interact with their world of information. Consumers will be able to use the individual Yahoo! Go Desktop services to connect to the information that matters to them online, but without having to open a browser window on their personal computer.
The initial services available as part of Yahoo! Go Desktop will be the Yahoo! Widgets Engine and a Yahoo! Go Desktop dashboard. The Yahoo! Go Desktop dashboard will connect consumers’ personal content to their services and their Internet community. For example, consumers will be able to link their personal contacts to Yahoo! Local, which will make it easy for them to update their address book with their favorite local businesses.
One year later:
- The whole Yahoo! Go concept has been reduced only to mobile (link)
- Yahoo! Go Desktop is now officialy just the old, plain, boring and pointless Konfabulator (link)
Well…after I stoped believing in fairy tales, I need to stop believing all the fake demos made at CES using probably some flash movies and not real applications.
YOU BASTARDS!
EDIT: In a strange coincidence ( 
), Guillaume asked himself the same questions and also got some official answers
One Response to “Oh my God, they killed the dashboard!”
By GuillaumeB on Feb 8, 2007 | Reply
hello Razvan,
I actually contacted the team on this subjet, you may want to have a look at my write up
http://insideyahoo.net/2007/02/06/on-yahoo-go/
Cheers!