The updates just keep coming! Yahoo! has just rolled out the latest in a series of product launches and updates to ensure that users are getting the best and most optimal experience on Yahoo! sites. From a new comedy channel on Yahoo! Screen, to a prediction engine that could forecast the results of the next presidential election, Product Pulse has you covered on the latest product news from Yahoo! Stay tuned each month as we keep you posted on the next and best that Yahoo! has to offer.

Flickr Contacts page gets a sleeker makeover
The first phase in Flickr’s 2012 redesign has just launched! Flickr’s contact page has been revamped using the new Justifed layout which will make it easier to see the stories your friends are telling with their photos. While the previous layout choices are still available, the new design optimizes for seamlessly displaying more images at larger sizes, so you can see more of the activity from contacts, friends and family at once. The new design offers Flickr members:

A more elegant layout, with whitespace and thumbnails removed for vibrant, un-cropped photos that way the photo is meant to appear (portrait, landscape, panorama, Instagram square)

Simpler and more dynamic navigation, including:

• Scroll-over functionality gives way to high-resolution pop-up images
• A simple light-box option for a full-screen view of the image selected
• Limitless photo scrolling removes the need to click from page to page

New ways to interact with images, including quick access to “favorite” images and comment right on the thumbnails

Check out the new Flickr contacts page here

Yahoo! Screen introduces the Yahoo! Comedy Channel
The live broadcast of Bill Mahr’s “CrazyStupidPolitics: Live from Silicon Valley” last night kicks off the launch of the Yahoo! Comedy Channel on Yahoo! Screen, which will feature a slate of original web shows from some of the top production companies and renown comedic talent. The lineup includes “Sketchy” a weekly video comedy series starting some of the biggest names in comedy and many others. Missed the Bill Mahr live broadcast? You can watch all the clips on Yahoo! Screen, hear all about his surprise headline announcement, and check out the rest of the video series available.

Flickr Android App Coming To A Language Near You!
Flickr rolled out an update to the Flickr Android app that includes nine new languages, including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Bahasa Indonesian. The popular Flickr Android app, which initially launched in September 2011, allows even more Flickr members worldwide to take photos directly from the app, enhance them with filters, and quickly send pictures to Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere. Check it out here.

The Signal Predicts Obama will win the Election
David Rothschild and David Pennock from Yahoo! Labs made a bold prediction in The Signal last week that Obama will win the general election in November by 303 electoral votes. The Signal, a Yahoo! blog uses the first ever real-time prediction engine that combines powerful scientific algorithms with multiple, real-time and historical data sources to generate predictions. This model does not use polls or prediction markets to directly gauge what voters are thinking. Instead, it forecasts the results of the Electoral College based on past elections, economic indicators, measures of state ideology, presidential approval ratings, incumbency, and a few other politically agnostic factors. To date, the post has attracted over 40,000 comments, a record for The Signal.Stay current on the Signal’s latest posts here.