Product Pulse - March 27, 2009
Posted March 27th, 2009 at 1:03 pm by Nicki Dugan
Filed in: Product Pulse
If you've never really liked your name, today's your day to give it a rest. It's National Joe Day, when everyone's can introduce themselves as, well, "Joe." So throw it out there legitimately when you order that venti triple-caff non-fat soy mocha latte. Here's what we built for you Joe Schmo's this week:
- The Interwebs invade your TV: You probably won't ditch your computer any time soon, but now your TV can do more than just coddle couch potatoes. The new Yahoo! TV Widgets are here, debuting in Samsung's new LED TV 7000, letting you multitask with a vengeance as you watch the boob tube. Without interrupting your program, you can check out content from Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Weather, and Flickr as well as (coming soon) great third-party brands like Twitter, the New York Times, Netflix, eBay, CBS Sports, Showtime and MySpace. You'll find these widgets on TVs and devices from Sony, LG Electronics, Intel, and VIZIO starting this summer. Watch a demo here.
- Inquisitor goes global: A few weeks ago, we rolled out the Inquisitor app for the iPhone for people in the U.S. Now the mobile search app is available in ten more countries, autocompleting keywords and making suggestions so you can spend less time fat-fingering your query. And according to the Twitterverse, it appears to be scoring a spot on quite a number of iPhone first pages. (Note that you'll need to change the country default in the options menu if you don't want U.S. search results.) More here.
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