Product Pulse? It must be Friday
Posted September 22nd, 2006 at 12:09 pm by Nicki Dugan
Filed in: Product Pulse
Big and small, here's what kept us busy this week — the second weekly installment of product highlights to fuel your fancy.
- It’s Game Time!: Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Basketball launches for the upcoming NBA season with a fresh new look and game experience.
- 60 Minutes on Yahoo! News: If you missed that "60 Minutes" interview everyone's talking about, fret no more. "60 Minutes" debuted this week on Yahoo! with highlights and exclusive outtakes from Howard Stern's interview. Next up — Katie Couric's interview with Condi Rice.
- Mail and IM on your Crackberry: Blackberry users who suffer withdrawal from Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger can stop twitching now. Get more done away from your desktop.
- Calling all Ruby and Flash hackers: The Yahoo! Developer Network just launched resource centers for Ruby and Flash to let developers mash up with Yahoo! services. And they've made it easy-peasy with how-to's, downloads and community resources. Hack on.
- Yahoo! Messenger knows your 'hood: Ok, you have to try this. Add "ylocalbot" to your Yahoo! Messenger friends list. Then send it a message with a local keyword and your zip code (ie, "dry cleaner 94107") and it will reply with a list of joints, addresses and phone numbers. Add "ymapbot" and you can ask it for directions (ie, "701 First Ave Sunnyvale CA to San Francisco"). But the coolest thing? It now works on your mobile!
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Can you get there from here?
Posted September 21st, 2006 at 10:09 am by Nicki Dugan
Filed in: General
Yahoo! Maps has just added dirt roads to its navigation databases, or so it would seem from this cartoon, which recently ran in newspapers across the country. Special thanks to reader Brinke Guthrie for sending it in.
In case you're wondering who the runner is, he's Chipper Jones of the ...
