Product Pulse – January 16, 2009
Posted January 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor
6 Comments / Filed in: Product Pulse
Twenty-three years ago today, the Internet Engineering Task Force first met with the mission of developing Internet standards. You know, seeking agreement on minor things like TCP/IP and Internet protocols, so that routers and packets and switches would all cooperate with one another in order to bring you cool things like what we’ve cooked up this week:
- Status on steroids: If you’ve set up your Yahoo! Profiles page, you’ve been reaping the benefits of Yahoo!’s new social capabilities. Today, Yahoo! Profiles ventures beyond these purple walls to include updates from more than 20 sites. That means that you can now see when a contact posts a new review on Yelp, uploads to SmugMug, uploads a video to YouTube, blogs on Blogger, rates a song on Pandora, or tweets on Twitter. The world’s getting smaller as we speak. More here.
- Piping hot news: What do you get when you combine Yahoo! News with Twitter? A breaking news search engine. Yahoo! engineer Vik Singh took his brainchild, Yahoo! BOSS (or Build Your Own Search Service), and put it to use to create what he calls TweetNews. It’s a clever mashup that takes stories on Yahoo! News and combines them with topics that are spiking on Twitter — a new way to find news that is both timely and important. And another great marriage of traditional and social media. Give it a whirl. More here and here.
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Tagged: , Product Pulse, twitter, yahoo! BOSS, yahoo! profiles, yahoo! search
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nobosh | January 16th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Slow week?
gag | January 18th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
some company could try ivr plus geo/gps search now coz anyways that is the future
Carl | January 21st, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Tells us with something interesting comes out for the profiles system…like a blog capability. This new social update is a knockoff of what FriendFeed and MyBlogLog already do. This new profiles appears to be a Jack of All Trades and master of none.
Bruiser | January 22nd, 2009 at 9:52 am
Your “Open and Social” changes were not asked for, and are not wanted. You’ve ruined YProfiles, and are starting to screw up YMail. Don’t believe me, take a look at the comments you’ve been getting from your own users.
Welcome to the beginning of the end for the YTanic.
gag | January 28th, 2009 at 8:55 am
i am not getting to see lots of interesting big products/projects in product pulse posts nowdays
people are getting fed up of present search and ad marketing and their is a market for yahoo! to exploit, it just needs the right people to come up with innovative new products
yahoo! has to hire some mid level researchers to reinvent search and marketing, hire me
Fantasy Football Player Draft Information | August 19th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Well said Carl, I concur your sentiment
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