Product Pulse – November 21, 2008

Posted November 21st, 2008 at 4:00 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

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Thirty-nine years ago today, the Cardinals and Bruins set aside all rivalry when computer scientists at Stanford and UCLA created the first permanent link between their two shiny new ARPAnet routers — paving the way for modern networked computing and eventually the means for all of your tweets, pokes, LOLcats, and smileys. Here’s what we hooked you up with this week:

• T-Mobile triumph: If you’re a T-Mobile subscriber in the U.S., you’ll be spending a whole lot less time trying to find things with your mobile phone. That’s because Yahoo! oneSearch is now the default mobile search for T-Mobile’s new web2go service, serving up search results designed specifically for your cell phone. After all, it’s an awfully small screen and wading through a sea of links is downright irritating. More here.
• Sticky search: Faithful Product Pulse readers will remember when we unveiled Glue Pages in India, an experimental concept for search that sticks text, images, and video content together into a single results page. It’s now a U.S. import, available as a slightly different experience as Yahoo! Glue beta. It assembles content from across the Web into a veritable microsite about your query. Topics are limited for now (we’ll expand over time), but go check out how it handles popular people, places and things like cupcakes, Sarah Palin, Twilight, and Citigroup. More here.
• Feel-good news: Recession, deflation, layoffs, bank meltdowns. C’mon, isn’t there some good news out there? Why, yes, there is. And the good people at Sears want to make sure you see it. Head to Good News Now, a new video channel on Yahoo! News that sees the world through rose-colored glasses — spotlighting strictly uplifting stories in the news. You’ll find profiles of heroes, medical triumphs, baby Obamas, charitable neighbors, natural disaster survivors, and more. The channel will run through New Year’s. Maybe headlines will improve by January?
• Britney, Britney, Britney: Whether you’re a tabloid subscriber or just read copies at the dentist’s office, you’re all too familiar with the world’s fascination with Britney Spears. Well, the volume increases on Monday, when Yahoo! TV will premiere the exclusive trailer of MTV’s upcoming documentary, “Britney: For the Record.” Then we’ll spend the rest of the week gearing you up for Britney’s 27th birthday and the release of her new album “Circus” on December 2, with special coverage across Yahoo!. On Monday, check out “Britney’s 27 Wildest Moments” on Yahoo! Music; Friday, omg will share “Britney’s 25 Most Memorable Looks;” and next Sunday, Shine will take a look at Brit’s relationships. Mark your calendar!
• Big time in no time: And a final note… I’d like to congratulate the team behind Primetime in No Time, the show that gives you a rapid-fire recap of the TV you missed the night before. They’ve just served their 100 millionth stream since launching in March, becoming one of the most successful original programs in the history of the Internet. Hosted by comedian Frank Nicotero, the show is clearly addictive. w00t! More here.

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5 Comments Add your own

gag | November 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 am

i love the way you write Nicki. Its interesting, fun and captivating.

TheErector | November 23rd, 2008 at 5:53 am

It it Cardinal, someone who has such a “high profile” job should know… or else they don’t deserve to be there.
which you don;t

Nicki Dugan | November 24th, 2008 at 1:03 am

@gag – Thanks so much! Feel free to copy-cut-paste that sentiment and use it generously across my posts. :p

@TheErector – Come again?

gag | December 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 am

the new yahoo! front page seems lean and dynamic which is good but to highlight many yahoo application/services and properties why not run a special (Halloween blog) type page everyday accessed by clicking the yahoo! logo, maybe a team could even work out some animation or we could have this during weekends

right now the featured section is doing an awesome job of highlighting various yahoo properties

gag | December 3rd, 2008 at 5:18 am

why do we have to search, their much be a better way to seek knowledge

data now is in giga bytes and their are soo many sites, their must be better ways to yahoo! information

i told you about visual search n others but it seems stupid right now, their must be something good

i am sure your researchers are working hard to solve this issue but still

i am blank, taking inspiration from song n music and how we search song do you think users should be given playlist of search genre app (maybe something like a search mailbox or ipod playlist) where they can store search terms and where the app is intelligent enough to run
-search query through all yahoo services
ex delicious, answers, pipes
-search based on past searches as stored in the playlist
ex sports, news, lifestyle
-give results based on past search selections
ex selected wikipedia, imdb, selected images

infact we can provide search results as a mailbox with calender, filters, rules etc.,

i dunno the above seems dumb but as a gemini i am fed up of this old fashioned kinda of search