Product Pulse – January 11, 2007

Posted January 11th, 2008 at 11:19 pm by Julie Han, Blog Team

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What’s your New Year’s resolution? If it’s being a better dancer, get into syncopated rhythm as it’s the 44th anniversary of the first discothèque in the U.S. (keep the polyester pants at home, please). After you’ve done your best John Travolta pose, read on for our fresh new moves.

Totally wired: If you missed CES, we’ve launched some pretty mobilicious updates to help you stay connected on your crackberries. To start off, the Yahoo! mobile homepage has gotten a New Year makeover with added juice to make the mobile web experience all about you. Make sure to check out the customizable content modules called Yahoo! Snippets for previews of news headlines that interest you, and a new update (since your last visit) of the latest photos on Flickr, recent emails, and the status of your Yahoo! Messenger friends. Also get instant results for your oneSearch queries, including content from Yahoo! Answers and Wikipedia. Jerry highlighted in his keynote that we also launched Yahoo! Go 3.0 (beta) with easy access to news, email, and services you want (think widgets that let you mobile bid on eBay or stay on top of celebrity chatter from MTV News). Developers and publishers, listen up. We’ve opened our mobile platform so you can create widgets for Yahoo! Go 3.0 and essentially any mobile browser – write it once and run it everywhere. I did say these were mobilicious updates, right?
Homeowner’s delight: At no cost to you, brokers and franchisors nationwide including Prudential Real Estate and Realogy Corporation (who owns CENTURY 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA and Sotheby’s International Realty) will be sharing their full catalog of property listings on Yahoo! Real Estate. You now have access to the widest range of real estate information possible online, for free. Not to mention a straight shot to all sorts of new guides for home buyers, sellers, and owners, a cool School Search that helps you find the right school through a map interface, a Foreclosures Center with trends and tips on foreclosure properties, and a Neighborhood Search that gives you the skinny (demographic, housing, education stats, maps, local shops) on the hood you’re moving to.
e-Post-Its: Stop using crumbled napkins and the backs of receipts to jot down your important thoughts. Add the new “Note to Self” module on My Yahoo! to log your ah-ha moments or reminders to buy milk on the way home. The best part is that you can do it while you’re multi-tasking!
Music with one line of code: The latest Yahoo! Media Player can be added to your web site or blog to play music from whatever media application your readers already have installed on their computers to play back files – all this with one line of code. Add the Yahoo! Media Player JavaScript to your HTML and the media player will identify and insert play buttons next to any audio links on your page. When you press the play button, the Yahoo! Media Player will appear and voila, music to our ears. Read more here.
Will this be the year of sequels?: Get some popcorn, grab a seat, and take a looksee at the most anticipated movies of 2008 and their trailers on Yahoo! Movie’s new Year End lists. Or just take a look back at last year’s top ten movies, most popular trailers, and movie stars that shined the red carpet throughout 2007 .