Product Pulse: Homepage apps, new Search, Messenger update, Zimbra milestone

Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

 4 Comments / Filed in: Product Pulse

Quick – who said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”? That’s right, Mahatma Gandhi and today would have been his 140th birthday. Take a little time to honor his legacy by celebrating justice, tolerance and creating change through nonviolent resistance. Here’s the kind of change we enacted this week:

• Homepage is more apptastic: If you’ve been playing with our new homepage apps, you’ve discovered our gallery of recommended apps. This week, we added more than a dozen new ones, with more to come. You can balance your personal budget with Mint, learn how to pair the right wine with your meal with an app from MyRecipes and Snooth, discover weekly deals at Target, get movie info from Flixster, or manage posts and comments on your WordPress blog — all from the Yahoo! Homepage. And because we’ve opened it up to third-party developers, expect that list to grow. More on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog.
• New Yahoo! Search: Notice anything different about Yahoo! Search? After a month of testing, we’ve rolled out a brand new Yahoo! Search that ups the ante in personal relevance. You’ll see new tools that let you explore related concepts; display only results from popular Yahoo! and third-party sites like Wikipedia, YouTube and IMDB; and narrow results by types of content like people, videos, and discussion forums. We also give you quick access to our Search Scan/SafeSearch tool, to protect you from viruses, spyware and spam, and Search Pad, which lets you take notes during your queries. More on the Yahoo! Search blog.
• Yahoo! Messenger kills bugs dead: The bug hunters on the Messenger team have released new versions of both Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta as well as Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone. In the former, they’ve fixed issues with webcam detection, added messaging to tell you when your friend needs to upgrade versions, offer better handling of unanswered calls, and explain when your Internet connection downgrades you to a voice call. Over on the iPhone, they’ve addressed the mysterious contact list disappearances. Download the upgrade in the iTunes App Store. More here and here on the Yahoo! Messenger blog.
• Zimbra milestone: Ok, what do Zimbra and South Africa have in common? People. Fifty million of them now have paid Zimbra mailboxes, just a bit more than the population of Africa’s most southerly nation That milestone comes amidst the launch of Zimbra Collaboration Suite 6.0, which now lets you more easily sync to your mobile, read and write emails with tabbed views, create presentations without external software, receive read email receipts, choose from among calendar views, and remotely wipe your phone if you lose it, among other features. More over on the Zimbra blog.

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Nicki Dugan
Blog Editor

Tagged: iphone, yahoo! homepage, yahoo! messenger, yahoo! search, zimbra

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4 Comments Add your own

Sean | October 4th, 2009 at 6:44 am

Us users, the new management, have been reporting the same bugs in the core messenger applications for months now, version 9 and 10, and the Yahoo! Messenger team have failed to address any of them.

Seth Wisely | October 4th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

If only apps were privacytastic!

Coby Hunt | October 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am

Hi,

My name is Coby Hunt and I think what you guys are doing is just great keep up the good work and don’t let anyone bring you down. Ohh and for the record I use the Yahoo IM all the time for the radio and to chat but mainly just the radio dont ever remove that and were good.

Thank You,

Coby Hunt

Lea Charlton | October 6th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

I also use the Yahoo radio while Im working. I am a SEO so I work from home full time and I gota tell you that little radio on Yahoo IM keeps me going so big thanks Yahoo love ya guys.

Thank You,

Lea Charlton