Product Pulse – June 5, 2009

Posted June 5th, 2009 at 8:20 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

Number of Comments 4 Comments / Filed in: Product Pulse

Whether you spell it doughnut or donut, today’s the official day of honor for these deep-fried morsels. Back in 1938, the Salvation Army declared National Doughnut Day to celebrate the women who went to the front lines during WWI to feed the troops, often cooking doughnuts right inside their helmets. Now you know why soldiers were commonly called doughboys. (Note: This should not be confused with Flickr’s hallowed Day of the Donut). Here’s what we fried up this week:

Surf less, do more: In the spirit of helping you take productivity to the Nth degree, we’re sprinkling great new third-party apps and widgets across our site. Now you can interact with content and tools from providers like Youtube, Mint.com, eBay, WordPress, Showtime, Picnik, and ZumoDrive in places like Yahoo! Mail, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Connected TV and Zimbra email. We call it the gift of time. More here.
Winning the email battle: If your email inbox has become your evil overlord, we’re empowering you with a great new weapon — new filters for Yahoo! Mail. Now you can basically snap your fingers and filter your inbox for the mail you actually want to read. Just click on “Contacts” above your inbox and presto, you’ll only see mail from people who are in your address book. The team is rolling this out to Classic and new Yahoo! Mail users in the U.S. and Australia over the next few weeks, with more countries to follow. More here.
Sticky wickets: The ICC World Twenty20, the world championship of cricket, kicked off today in England and fans the world over won’t miss a single bowl-out, thanks to Yahoo! Cricket. Our T20 coverage includes exclusive cricket content, player chats, videos and images from the tournament. From history of the game to up-to-date statistics on cricketers, cricket.yahoo.com offers elaborate coverage — series stats and records, data on women’s cricket teams, coach interviews, fantasy game, and more. That outta get the Snick-o-Meter going.

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Nicki Dugan
Blog Editor

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4 Comments Add your own

Comment Mike G | June 5th, 2009 at 10:16 pm

How come cricket gets it own site and no other sport does? (ie. baseball, soccer, football, basketball, hockey)

Should have just thrown cricket under Y! Sports.

Comment gag | June 7th, 2009 at 8:16 am

lot online in the future is gonna be video based and hence yahoo! has to concentrate more in this area

a drop down box with program names and when a program is selected like Jay Leno then relevant ads are played like of cars or sports. Its time to have ADS AS A PROGRAM.

I like the fact tv and net is connected at yahoo!, lot can be done, i cant wait to see what the brains at yahoo will create.

Comment gag | June 8th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

in the new yahoo! homepage and in the apps section to the left we can have a ads tab in which we can show videos of ads. Users can select this tab and use it like a screen saver, where popular or selection of ads are played continuously. It should be a single video frame in which all the ads should be played one after the other.

Comment gag | June 11th, 2009 at 7:26 am

in the new home page and in the today’s top searches section, for the first three keywords the link can point to spark like blog post with directory, web and video listings. importance should be given to directory listings.