Product Pulse – October 31, 2008

Posted October 31st, 2008 at 10:02 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

 One Comment / Filed in: Product Pulse

There’s a mountain in South Dakota that took this whole costume thing pretty seriously. Sixty-seven years ago today, the last monumental granite visage was completed as Mount Rushmore decided to be Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Jefferson for Halloween. Here are the treats we handed out this week:

• My Election: Want to effortlessly follow the final stretch of the (loooooong) road to the White House from your My Yahoo! with the click of a button? Add the new pre-loaded Election ‘08 tab. You’ll find the latest news from all the major news services via Yahoo! News and blog content from Washington Whisper, The Trail, RealClearPolitics.com, and FactCheck.org. And this being a non-partisan module, you’ll find both official Republican and Democratic party blogs (though you can easily ditch the one you most disagree with). You can even add messages from your favorite campaign HQ to your page. Get it here.
• Virtual voting: Bumper sticker? Check. Campaign button? Check. Window sign? Check. Just when you thought you’d done all you could to get people to vote, along comes Yahoo! Avatars election gear. You can outfit your Avatar with your favorite campaign t-shirt, an elephant/donkey hat or stuffed animal, an “I voted” button, and even put yourself in the Oval Office, the White House Press Center, or in front of Air Force One. (Green, Constitution and Libertarian parties, we’ve got you covered, too.) And if you use Messenger 9.0, you can fire up audibles from influential characters like Abraham Lincoln, Uncle Sam, and the Statue of Liberty. More here.

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niqh | November 4th, 2008 at 8:31 am

The new yahoo! front page is interesting and a huge step forward.
I would like to see mybloglog on the front page
More could be done on the front page but for the traffic it gets and destination it is, this is huge move in the positive direction. Congrats team.

P.S.
I was looking at past yodel posts and noticed many (products/lego blocks) from the past are missing, i wonder what is being made of them now.

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