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Flickr goes for homepage redesign – less cluttered now

Flickr goes for homepage redesign - less cluttered now

Flickr has redesigned it’s homepage and added activity stream to the site. The new homepage clearly cuts off the clutter and puts ‘your’ information at the center. The ‘Recent Activity’ has been made customizable and one can select which activities … Read More »

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ymail/rocketmail goes viral with kaunhoonmain

ymail/rocketmail goes viral with kaunhoonmain

Yahoo’s newly launched ymail/rocketmail has gone viral with kaunhoonmain. Watch out the spoof and do share your comments!

   

Yahoo! strengthens it’s mobile offering in Asia –voice search in local accent, partners with MTNL, Idea, CSL

Yahoo! announced localized versions of Yahoo! Go 3.0 for India, Australia and Southeast Asia, including a local language version for Indonesia, and an English version of Yahoo! oneSearch with voice that recognizes regional accents (Indian and Singaporean accents.) The OneSearch … Read More »

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Yahoo India Launches new Search Experience – Glue Pages

Yahoo India Launches new Search Experience - Glue Pages

Yahoo India has launched a new kind of search experience that collates contextual information and presents that in a visual form (look at the screenshot below, for “aishwarya rai” query) The serp collates information from wikipedia, Y! properties (like in.movies), … Read More »

   

Microsoft drops Yahoo Bid – And the Game Begins

Microsoft drops Yahoo Bid - And the Game Begins

So finally the 3-month old story comes to an end. Microsoft finally walks out of the deal (Steve Ballmer still screaming ‘developers developers developers!”) If you look at the entire story (has it really ended?), I think it’s a classic … Read More »

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Of Flickr video, user loyalty/riot and community management

Of Flickr video, user loyalty/riot and community management

Flickr users love Flickr and any forced change/disruption in usage behavior makes the community rip off their fav picture sharing site. The newly launched Flickr video is going thru’ a similar riot and users are creating Flickr groups like NO … Read More »

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Yahoo and Tatas Join Hands for Cloud Computing

Couple of months back, I wrote about Tata’s Eka , Asia’s fastest and world’s fourth fastest supercomputer. Yahoo and Tatas have joined hands and CRI (Computational Research Laboratories, which is owned by Tata Sons) will make available to Y! researchers, … Read More »

   

Of Y! Live, server choke and FastCompany

Of Y! Live, server choke and FastCompany

So the entire world is cribbing about Y! Live’s server choke and Scoble goes on to say “I’m so disappointed…The service doesn’t work. Says “Yahoo! Live is an experimental release. We’ve experienced heavy traffic and are taking a breather to … Read More »

   

Internet is still not governed by intellects

Internet is still not governed by intellects

And that has been proved time and again! Y! has released it’s top search queries in 2007 and like 2005 and 2006, Britney Spears is on everybody’s mind! 2006 top 10 searches were: Britney,WWE,Shakira,Jessica Simpson,Hilton,American Idol,Beyonce,Chris Brown,Pamela Anderson and Lindsay … Read More »