Product Pulse – October 10, 2008

Posted October 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

Number of Comments 2 Comments / Filed in: Product Pulse

Cholesterol be damned. It’s World Egg Day. An occasion for celebrating the greatest of all comfort food. Because with times like these, we could all use a bit more of that. Here’s what we hatched this week:

Snazzy schedule: Just like any tween, Yahoo! Calendar was worried about how it looked. So at age ten, it got a serious makeover, ushering this web calendar into a great new age of drag and drop, iCalendar integration, IM/SMS/email reminders, and Flickr loveliness. And coming soon are Outlook and iPhone synching and event discovery with Upcoming and other Yahoo! properties. Our little calendar — all grown up.
Handsfree search: If you’ve got a certain BlackBerry or Nokia phone, it’s time to clear your throat. Voice-enabled mobile search is now available on multiple BlackBerry and Nokia devices. If you have one of a number of Nokia Series 60 phones (like the N95), you’ll find voice recognition in the home-screen shortcut of OneSearch 2.0 (get it here: m.yahoo.com/shortcut). And if you use Yahoo! Go 3.0 (get it here: http://get.go.yahoo.com/) and have select BlackBerry, Nokia Series 40, and Nokia Series 60 models, you’ll be able to find stock quotes, sports score, and just about anything else by simply yapping into your phone. And we know you know how to do that. It’s available in the US, UK, India, Singapore, the Philippines, and Canada.

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Tagged: Product Pulse, yahoo! calendar, yahoo! mobile

2 Comments Add your own

Comment Christiane | October 11th, 2008 at 5:27 am

When I try to install Yahoo! Go on my Nokia E71 (Series 60 phone) I get the msg “We’re sorry! Yahoo! Go currently doesn’t support your Nokia E71″ after inviting me to install it on my E71. I already raised this question at Yahoo! Answers but the question was deleted unanswered. I would really like to use Yahoo! Go if you would let me.

Comment niqh | October 19th, 2008 at 5:39 am

I am not sure but people could soon start reading in briefs. First its a title or words which can be expanded into 2 lines of brief. Then if the user wants he further expands it into 3 three lines of brief. I think people reading paras of text will phase out soon.
Ex:
Product Pulse 10/10/2008
+new calendar fix and mobile search updates
++ {now same topic is given in detail in 3-4 lines}
+++ {now its presented in a para}