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iGoogle Integration Kills Need to Go to Google Reader
louisgray.com —
... Integrating Google Reader with iGoogle will make it more attractive to mainstream users who are still figuring out RSS, and now need one less site to go to in order to get their fill of news. While iGoogle hasn't exactly dominated the market, still owned by My Yahoo!, the integration is smart, and for early adopters like me who aren't huge fans of pretty search-based portals, this just might be enough to do the reverse, and get me using iGoogle. ...
iGoogle attacked by giant widgets
Webware.com —
... iGoogle should be rolled out to all U.S. users by the end of Thursday, Ewing said. At the moment, 15 percent to 20 percent of users are on the new platform.
Competitors include My Yahoo, My MSN, Netvibes, and PageFlakes. ...
Yahoo in the Hands of Developers
Mashable! —
... So, why is all of this important? Yahoo is still one of the most highly visited websites. My Yahoo is still considered to have the largest user base for a personalized homepage. Yahoo Mail is still one of the largest Web mail installations. ...
Low RSS Adoption: Is It About Tools or Needs?
Profy —
... course some of them can be pretty difficult to comprehend as they are built by developers and for developers - not for the general population. But there are tools that are very straightforward and the learning curve must be short enough to adopt them if the benefits outweigh the pain involved - say, Google Reader or Bloglines.
There are also tools that are easy to explain to consumers as their dashboards to the web - the start pages are offered by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft as well as by independent developers like Netvibes or Pageflakes. ...
Social Desktop Aggregator Sobees Launches Public Beta
TechCrunch —
... desktop environment instead, including search, weather updates, RSS feeds, YouTube videos, social networking sites, etc.
The bootstrapped startup wants to provide a seamless user experience fit for a mainstream audience when it comes to accessing online content or handling repetitive internet tasks, without the need to constantly switch between browser windows, tabs and multiple desktop apps. Customizable start pages like Netvibes, iGoogle / Google Desktop and MyYahoo are the biggest challengers, as well as the widgets you can add to your Mac or Windows ...
When Will RSS Get Some Love?
BIA/Kelsey Blog —
... all types of media.
RSS falls in line with these trends and can be a great tool for customizing and managing your daily consumption of news, weather, sports, classifieds,etc. It’s like an email alert but better, because it cycles in new headlines and pushes out older ones within your RSS reader (rather than clog your inbox).
Some of the more innovative RSS readers to be developed over the past few years include NetVibes, Pageflakes and MyYahoo!. Google has also put RSS on the map in a more meaningful way by acquiring ...
MacVoices #8128: Guy Kawasaki Delivers a ‘Reality Check’ on His New Book and Alltop, His Information Aggregation Site
MacVoices —
... challenging economic times. Guy shares some wisdom on how to survive and thrive, regardless of the industry you are trying to dominate.
Links:
Chuck Joiner on Twitter
Guy Kawasaki on Twitter
Alltop
Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki
NetNewsWire by NewsGator
iGoogle
My Yahoo
TidBITS by Adam and Tonya Gnest
The Unofficial ...
A quick endorsement: Popurls, the home page for lazy geeks
Webware.com —
Despite my fondness for customizable start pages (Netvibes, iGoogle, My Yahoo, etc), I have found myself continuing to use PopUrls, a pre-built aggregation page that's almost as useful as a customizable page.
Unlike other start pages, PopUrls is not general-purpose like iGoogle or My Yahoo. It is an aggregation site for dweebs, with a focus, by default, on tech-friendly user aggregation sites Digg, Delicious, and Reddit. It does, to be fair, grab headlines from the NY Times and Google News, but also does so from Slashdot and Wired. A top content ...
Yahoo Tests New Front Page
ReadWriteWeb —
... Of course, with My Yahoo, Yahoo already has a highly customizable portal solution. It is not clear if the front page redesign will also be extended to My Yahoo, but the screenshots of the new home page we have seen so far do not feature a link to My Yahoo anymore. This leads us to believe that Yahoo might be slowly abandoning this service in favor of the redesigned front page. ...
Yahoo! Glue Is Like Mahalo Lite, Without The Jason Calacanis Fireworks
Podcasting News —
... have some information on a 4-year old technology used by tens of millions, wouldn’t you? And if they don’t have Glue results for podcasting, they could at least fail gracefully and include the Yahoo! search results for podcasting!
While some are impressed with Yahoo! Glue, they may want to take a deeper look.
I thought Yahoo! Glue might do better with something easier, like a search for one of Yahoo!’s own services, like My Yahoo!.
Here are the results:
Nice picture of a dog, ...
Would You Pay for a Web App That Delivers the News?
ReadWriteWeb —
... or My Yahoo, will be the way you pay for its services with your attention. In addition to the small monthly fee, the service would manage your attention to deliver premium content. So for example, when you look at an ad, that would create a payment that would be credited to an account where it will go to offset your purchase of premium content later on. This model effectively makes attention the currency with which you make your purchases./ ...
Google maps out Chrome's RSS support
Webware.com —
... tags," according to the developer document about Chrome support for RSS and Atom, a similar technology for letting people sign up for update "feeds" such as new blog postings. "When a feed is available for a page, we will display an RSS icon in the address bar."
Firefox shows the standard orange feed icon in its address bar when it encounters a site that has offers a feed; clicking it lets a person subscribe to the feed with a Web service such as Bloglines, My Yahoo, or Google Reader. Internet Explorer lets people subscribe to the feed using itself ...
RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks
louisgray.com —
... and My Yahoo!, which are themselves RSS-powered, sites where my own action is required to make them useful, from retail sites like ...
Netvibes Appears to Be Dying
ReadWriteWeb —
... Start-pages are highly customizable services that display RSS feeds and lots of other little tools inside widgets on a page. The most successful have been MyYahoo and ...
Kosmix Introduces Meehive to Deliver Personalized News Pages
louisgray.com —
... Meehive is nothing if not diligent in trying to make you the perfect news site. Upon registration, users are walked through a series of preference pages, where you can choose, based on the topic at hand, from Business and Finance items, to Sports, to Entertainment, and US & World, Lifestyle, and others. You can also add RSS feeds directly to the site, like you can with portals from My Yahoo!. ...
Yahoo! Rolls Out New Mobile Web Campaign
ReadWriteWeb —
... more) on virtually any web-enabled cell phone at this URL: mobile.yahoo.com (if that isn't active, try this link).
Sponsor
OneConnect
We'll talk about the iPhone app a little later, but let's cover the OneConnect technology in a little more detail. From what we can gather, it combines a lifestream aggregator (like FriendFeed), RSS aggregator (like Google Reader), web app widgetizer (like the My Yahoo! or iGoogle start pages) and pushes them through an abstraction engine, ...
Foxden runs multiple Web apps in one tab
Webware.com —
... Sites like Netvibes, My Yahoo, and iGoogle are great for organizing multiple feeds and widgets on a single page, but what about if you want to get your hands on full Web pages? New Firefox tool Foxden does just that, letting you set up a framed page that renders separate Web pages within the same space. This doesn't work on all sites, especially ones that like as much screen real estate as possible; but for some it's a handy way to consolidate pages you want to keep open without filling up your available tab space.
To set it up you simply pick ...
7 Ways to Create Your Own Social Start Page
Mashable! —
... No start page guide is complete without discussing the very popular My Yahoo start page. Just like its Google counterpart, My Yahoo uses widgets to help you customize and organize information. ...
Desktop gives your Firefox bookmarks a new look
Webware.com —
... , and My Yahoo, there's something nice about keeping that page of bookmarks local, so it will always work without requiring you to be logged in somewhere. ...
Mint Takes its Personal Finance Tools to My Yahoo
Mashable! —
... Starting today, My Yahoo, the internet start page for millions of mainstream users, will support a Mint application that includes a balance-free view of a user’s budget, spending trends, and account status with charts and graphics. The application will also show cash versus debt, investment performance, and categorized spending. ...
Yahoo Adds a Number of New Apps and Widgets to Its Sites
Mashable! —
... Yahoo’s personalized portal My Yahoo has also been treated with several new widgets, including personal finance app Mint, a recipe app called What’s Cookin’ Food & Wine Pairing, as well as environmentally-friendly app Mokugift. ...
More OpenSocial Apps Invade MyYahoo: Mint, kaChing, WordPress
TechCrunch —
... Yahoo just opened its doors to a bunch of new OpenSocial apps. People who use MyYahoo as a startpage can now add apps from Mint, KaChing, WordPress, and more. The apps include a small view which appear on your MyYahoo page, but can also open up into a canvas view (which is essentially a dedicated page on Yahoo for that particular app). The Mint app, for instance, gives you a dashboard view of your finances and alerts. The WordPress app lets you do a quick post to your blog right from Yahoo. All together, Yahoo added 14 new apps for users to choose from. You can check your ...
How well do Netbooks work with Web apps?
Webware.com —
... story we're going with free tools. DimDim, one of my personal favorites, makes for a good test subject. Its free version lets you screen share, video chat, voice chat, work on a whiteboard, co-view Web pages, and even record the entire session to view later. I did all of those things, and while there was a little slow-down when co-viewing Web pages, the person on the other end said that the video and voice were coming in loud and clear.
Google Reader/iGoogle/My Yahoo/Netvibes--All of these RSS and widget news pages ran with ease. Similar to the ...
Yahoo’s New Homepage Won’t Save It From Google or Microsoft
Mashable! —
... it’s cleaner, offers more personalization, pushes up the search bar, and is simply nicer on the eyes. But that’s not the question we should be asking. Instead, we should ask this: Will Yahoo’s new homepage help it rise back to prominence?
Our answer: almost certainly not. While these new features and widgets are wonderful changes, they’re not new innovations – it’s borrowing concepts from iGoogle and its own My Yahoo start page tool.
Yahoo believes that users are looking for one place ...
Yahoo's New Home Page Trumps My Yahoo, iGoogle Pages in Simplicity
Google Watch —
... Ostensibly, Yahoo's home page has become a sort of customizable platform, not unlike the company's own My Yahoo page, or iGoogle, which is where I live for applications. ...
Yahoo’s New Look: Quite Nice
Technologizer —
... It’s still full of Yahoo features, such as Autos, Finance, HotJobs, and Maps. But it’s also got some major non-Yahoo destinations, such as eBay and Facebook. If you click on a item, you’ll go there. But when you hover over most items, a window pops up that lets you do stuff without leaving the Yahoo home page. Here, for instance, is what Facebook looks like on my Yahoo (Not to be confused with My Yahoo, which continues to be available): ...
Yahoo Opens Home Page To Developers; Will Allow Sales Of Virtual Goods
paidContent —
... ). That may all be about to change. Yahoo now says that any outside developer will be able to build an app for the Yahoo home page, in the same way that many already do for the personalized My Yahoo site. To mark the announcement, it is introducing a host of new apps to Yahoo.com that already exist on My Yahoo, including one from personal finance site Mint and a movie app from Flixster. ...
