Product Pulse – October 27, 2006

Posted October 27th, 2006 at 1:14 pm by Julie Han, Blog Team

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Wannabes, pack rats and chatterers – we’ve got something for everyone in this week’s product roundup.

• Born to be a web-celeb?: We’ve already announced the Yahoo! Talent Show open call, but here’s a reminder for you die-hard thespians and Mariah Carey wannabes. Jig, yodel, rant, strum or hum, if you’ve got talent, we want to see it.
• Hunt and peck no more. A one-stop publisher shop: We have gathered all our little Yahoo! publisher gee-gaws (badges for Flickr, Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Finance, Upcoming, and del.icio.us; action buttons for your blog; Yahoo! Search Builder search functionality; podcast tutorials; and more) into one convenient place for your publishing needs. It’s all part of the revamp of the Yahoo! Publisher Network home page self-serve. Ain’t it great? Read more here.
• Attention pack rats and chronic organizers: Saving, sharing and organizing your favorites has never been this easy with the new Yahoo! Toolbar and Yahoo! Bookmarks. Thumbnails make it easy to find, drag and drop saved bookmarks, and share your favorite web sites via IM or email. Into the nitty-gritty? Read more here.
• Cut the fat. Shedding unwanted IM seconds: Yahoo! Messenger version 8.1 plays nice with IE7 and makes photo sharing, PC-to-PC phone calls, and personalized avatars a quicker click away. Faster load times mean more time to chit and chat.
• Have we got a deal for you: Yahoo! Travel just got a bit more personal, offering deal recommendations that read like your personal vacation wish list. It’s based on where you live and what you check out on Yahoo!. Better start packing.

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siena k. hintz | October 29th, 2006 at 6:36 pm

I am a retired teacher. I spend a lot of time on the net visiting, researching and reading. People seem to have to say something negative about everything. So, I am sure you will wonder some days why you bother. I love most of what you do and I appreciate that you stay current and innovative. Not many care for the opinions of my age group. I am 67. But many of us have a lot of disposable income and we don’t have to save it any more so we spend it on our families. I buy everything on the Internet. And I begin everyday and end it with yahoo. I am one appreciative person here in Michigan, who thinks you’re doing a pretty good job. Kudos to all of you.

Luís Felipe | November 2nd, 2006 at 5:11 pm

Hi!

Yesterday, I installed Yahoo! Toolbar Beta 7.0 in my work computer. After this, I installed Yahoo! Toolbar Beta in my home computer and signed in. For my disillusionment, the shortcuts that I configured at work didn’t appear when I signed in to Yahoo! Toolbar 7.0 at home. After I tried retrieve shortcuts buttons at home without success, I tried sign out the Toolbar and I saw that the shortcuts buttons that I configured when I was signed in still were being shown when I was signed out. So, I tried sign in to Yahoo! with another Yahoo! ID and I saw that Toolbar wasn’t refreshed with the shortcuts from this other Yahoo! ID and the shortcuts from the first Yahoo! ID don’t disappeared automatically to give place to the shortcuts of the second Yahoo! ID.

I always clicked in “Refresh toolbar” trying to solve this issue, but it didn’t function.

I’m feeling that the shortcuts of this new Toolbar aren’t being stored online.
If you removes the mobility characteristic from the new Yahoo! Toolbar, it will lose its great difference from other toolbars like Google Toolbar or Windows Live Toolbar. It is just the mobility that makes Yahoo! Toolbar be so special.

The only buttons that refresh automatically are the settings button and the button to access the Yahoo! Bookmarks. Ah! And the list of groups under the drop down menu of the Groups button also is refresh automatically when I sign in with other Yahoo! ID.

In addition, I don’t want that other users of the same computer who I use see the shortcuts that I configured and I simply HATED to have to configure ALL the shortcuts ALL time that I access the Yahoo! Toolbar in a different computer!

I want to believe that this is just a beta bug issue that you will fix until the final version release. But if you are really adding this characterist to the new Yahoo! Toolbar I will go to be really DISAPPOINTED and IRRITATED. I like so much to use Yahoo! Toolbar… since that it has mobility!

Think carefully on this.

(I like the new look of the Yahoo! Toolbar but I think that will be better if you add 3D or glossy effects on the icons.)

Thank you Yahoo! Toolbar team!