Product Pulse – December 12, 2008

Posted December 12th, 2008 at 5:38 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

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It’s not always enough to have a flower named after you. Sometimes you just gotta have an act of Congress to honor that flower. Today is National Poinsettia Day, tribute to Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first U.S. ambassador to Mexico and a botany aficionado. He discovered the crimson harbinger of the holidays while walking south of the border and introduced it up north. Here’s what we propagated this week:

• Delicious movement: Yes, your tastiest bookmarks can now be found on your mobile device. The Delicious team just launched their mobile site — http://m.delicious.com. It’s still in beta but it lets you browse your bookmarks, tags, inbox, and other info. You can also browse popular and recent bookmarks and tags from the Delicious community. It also means that you have a good reason to 86 your phone’s bookmarks.
• Tasty noise: Of the hundreds of millions of bookmarks on Delicious, a considerable chunk are audio files. The team (they’ve been busy!) is now making it possible for you to listen to those files with a new integration with FoxyPlayer from Yahoo! Music. Even cooler, it turns bookmarks into a playlist that you can control from your browser. Check out samples for Beck, Chopin, and Christmas. More here.
• Finding Flickr friends: There are days when you totally welcome the opportunity to get lost in an aimless exploration of your Flickr contacts’ images, but sometimes you just want a little order. Thankfully, the team just updated your contacts list page, making it much easier for you to navigate contacts — especially if you have a bevy. You can sort by name, contact type, number of photos, when you added them as a contact, and their last upload.
• Messenger merriment: The Messenger team brings you holiday cheer in the form of Emoticarolers, a personalized singing telegram sung by four of your favorite emoticons. You can customize the lyrics to a popular holiday tune (from Jingle Bells to Auld Lang Syne) and send it off to your friends. Their harmony is impressive, albeit somewhat Hal-like. Create your own here.

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gag | December 13th, 2008 at 4:44 am

i am sorry about the layoffs, i hope Yahoo! raises to become a dominant force online/mobile soon thereby providing jobs for many everywhere

i liked the introduction to this post
tasty noise is interesting and text to voice for emoticarolers could have been better

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it is time for many portals to reinvent and for their researchers and scientist to innovate

-lately portals and browsers do the same and have similar features, if this continues, then portal might become obsolete. hence portal should find ways to better reflect or mirror the web

-portals have apps, services and editorial
where the flow is editorial->services->apps and the opposite for browsers. portals should reinvent and redefine its presence online

Yahoo! should reinvent search, i would be glad to help. Talk to me.

Mandy | December 13th, 2008 at 7:59 am

Let me try to feel the pulse of a specific product…

With the year now nearing the end, I can’t help but wonder what the odds are that the mess that is “Profiles” really gets to be something after all. Yahoo360, originally and repeatedly promised to be migrated to the “new profiles thing” during this year (retaining all user-generated content, of course), is still there, still slow, broken and bug-ridden, barely accessible, and by and large not useable. The new profiles, forcibly put in effect in an early beta state with ridiculous side-effects, still are running low on features and useability and don’t really seem to be making any perceivable progress worth mentioning, or at all. It’s almost as if a single coder is idly toying around with both services part-time and without any vision what to do with it and thus not getting anywhere. I expect a company like Yahoo to do much much better, frankly. I expect progress and open communication.

Could we please get a statement on the state of things there and the future outlook? A profile/ID for personal representation and to network around with is pretty much the prime feature of using Yahoo in the first place, anything else rises or falls with that. I’d really like to know if it makes any sense to continue to wait, or if it’s wiser to jump ship and use something else than Yahoo. Even my patience has limits. Thanks.

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