Product Pulse – May 29, 2009

Posted May 29th, 2009 at 5:46 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

Number of Comments 3 Comments / Filed in: Product Pulse

Tonight marks the end of an era. After 17 years, Jay Leno will give his last “Tonight Show” monologue, joining Steve Allen, Jack Paar, and Johnny Carson in the ranks of former hosts. From taking Hugh Grant to the woodshed for using a prostitute to hosting the first sitting American president on a late-night show, Leno gave you plenty of reasons to delay your bedtime. Here’s what we pulled on stage this week:

Photos without the jail time: If you’ve ever hesitated before throwing that copyrighted photo into a presentation or web page, you’ll celebrate this news. Yahoo! Search has added a Creative Commons license filter to Yahoo! Image Search to help you quickly identify photos that are OK to reuse or modify. No other search engine saves your bacon that way. Not only do we keep you out of trouble, you’ll never even the see the photos you don’t have permission to use — it’s like Eve didn’t even know the apple existed. More here.
Search that sport: That little search box just made you a better sports fan. Yahoo! Search has added a sports team shortcut that helps you keep track of your favorite teams, leagues, and events simply by typing in a keyword or two. When’s the next Lakers game? Who’s winning the French Open? Just go to Yahoo! Search. The sports team shortcut covers the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA, and college sports leagues including the NCAAF and NCAAB. More here.
360 comes full circle: Yes, it’s official — Yahoo! 360 is coming to an end. We know, we know — it took us a while to pull the plug. But rather than rush the process and risk losing your precious photos and prose, we wanted to make sure we had a solution in place — Yahoo! Profiles. You can move your content over to your profile, where your connections can keep tabs on you, or take it to go. You can export your entries to blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, and MoveableType. More here.
Comments with a click: And in the hilarious third-party app category… Feeling too lazy, bored, tired, or uninspired to write a comment for that Flickr photo? Good thing some clever souls from Virginia have developed the Flickr comment generatr. You can choose between simple (“this is super :-p”) or verbose (“i eat up the framing and foto ;-) good job my friend”). Now you can be meaningless without even trying.

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Tagged: creative commons, Flickr, Product Pulse, yahoo! 360, yahoo! image search, yahoo! search

3 Comments Add your own

Comment Kat | May 31st, 2009 at 2:49 pm

The transfer is NOT flawless… I am missing the most recent 2 years!

Comment JSuar | May 31st, 2009 at 3:14 pm

Thanks for mentioning flickr comment generator!

Comment Bruiser | June 1st, 2009 at 1:00 am

I suggest you check out the YProfiles blog to see how people feel about the 360 closing. People are definitely not happy with being forced from a rich, developed application to a beta product with many problems.

I still don’t understand the the thought process for closing down 360, and in so doing losing a large portion of those users, to then expend the same, if not more, energy on something which will have even less users.