Product Pulse: Messenger media, Flickr Search, Delicious refresh
Posted August 7th, 2009 at 8:22 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor
2 Comments / Filed in: Product Pulse
Today is a day near to my heart — Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day. On this occasion, we are united in cursing impervious plastic packaging that even your sharpest scissors can’t cut. And those maddening wire twisties that slow the toy-to-child introduction rate by a factor of 27. Manufacturers, are you listening?! Here’s what we made easier to open this week:
- Photo hunting: There are more than 3 billion photos and videos on Flickr — guaranteeing that you’ll find awesome captures of just about anything. Now it’s easier to wade through that massive library with the new Flickr Search. The search results page has been redesigned with new “view” controls that let you dictate whether you want the thumbnails as small, medium, or detail. There’s also an option to view search results as a slideshow. You can also click on a particular photo to launch a popup preview with more info. And, since Flickr is all about serendipity and discovery, you’ll see links to the groups, photographers, tag clusters, and places that relate to your search. Try this search for polka-dotted poodle. More here.
- Fresh and Delicious: The team over at our favorite social bookmarking site unwrapped some tasty treats this week. Delicious now has new search tools, including the ability to search within a date range and filter by tags. You’ll also find rich content (YouTube videos, Flickr images, Yelp data) right on the search results page. Since we all want to know what everybody’s up to, Delicious has added the “Fresh Bookmarks” tab to let you see the most recently-saved bookmarks that are buzzing on Twitter. And speaking of Twitter, you can now tweet your bookmarks from right within Delicious. Ditto for emailing. More here and over on the Delicious blog.
- More Messenger movies: Baby panda videos. Movie trailers. Tour de France photos. The kind of stuff we love to share. If you have Yahoo! Messenger 9.0, it’s now all that much easier to ping friends with great videos and photos. The team had added support for a slew of sites to Messenger’s inline media player — ranging from Hulu, Facebook, and Vimeo to twitpic and CollegeHumor.com. All that because you told them to. Ask, and ye shall receive. More here.
Finally, a shout-out to reader Dennis Marks for suggesting we ditch the date in our Product Pulse headlines in favor of content clues (made good sense to us!).
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Nicki Dugan
Blog Editor
Tagged: del.icio.us, Flickr, Product Pulse, yahoo! messenger
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Linda | August 12th, 2009 at 3:42 am
Why doesn’t Yahoo have twitter on the new home page???
gag | August 14th, 2009 at 8:20 am
we could see apps on mobiles being networked
ex: user A has Going Shopping app (calculates discounts, has information about shops etc:)in his mobile and then user B searches the network for the app Going shopping coz he has not loaded it onto his mobile and uses app of user A in some way
so its basically people having these apps which are tagged and searchable which are networked and can be used by each other in someway without downloading every app
so in a way mobiles will be networked for more then communication
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