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How Is Yahoo’s Massive “Metro” Homepage Redesign Going? It Depends on Who You Ask
BoomTown —
... is the homepage that was rolled out in September 2007
This is a homepage rolled out in September 2007 that includes more outside apps
This is the homepage rolled out in September 2007 that shows how email from Yahoo and Google and AOL would look
This is a screenshot of Yahoo’s current home page
And here is the full text of the Bhat post from last night below.
Update on our new homepage ...
Yahoo Close to Launching New Homepage
WebProNews Feed —
... for its homepage, but the company s ays it is now getting close to a final design . The other day Yahoo issued an update on the homepage testing and included a recap of what has been done and what is still being done. The biggest thing so far has been the addition of the Apps section. Now they've announced over 25 new apps for things like eBay, Wired.com, Forbes.com, etc. They've also beefed up the Sports and Finance apps with elements like providing schedules, team standings, blogs links, and one-click access to stock portfolios and stock quotes. ...
Yahoo! adds more apps & lightens colors on new home page
D' Technology Weblog —
... Yahoo! has announced that the the first phase of their home page test is about done now, with insights from US, UK, France and India. In addition to new “My Apps” section, Yahoo! is currently testing about 25 new apps; new additions include: apps from eBay, Forbes.com, Wired.com and more top brands. Thet’ve also beefed up the Sports and Finance apps, by providing schedules, team standings, blogs links and more, plus one-click access to your stock portfolios and stock quotes. ...
Yahoo Leans Towards A Less-Radical Home-Page Makeover
paidContent —
... in September and the second one that appeared in February. Gone is the big box that featured a "dashboard" of outside applications. Instead, there is a box of links to outside applications from third-party sites that looks very much like the box that currently links to other Yahoo services on the home page. In its announcement, Yahoo seems to acknowledge that previous iterations might have been too radical. "We recognize that many of you like your homepage just the way it is, thank-you-very-much, so the overall look and feel of the page will be familiar," ...
Yahoo Plans to Unveil a Revamped Home Page
Bits —
... and again that it wanted to provide something of a dashboard that offered its users a view not only into their favorite Yahoo content and services, but also into third-party applications and sites that they use frequently, like Facebook, eBay or Gmail. The idea was also to make it easy for users to customize that experience. Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder and former chief executive, had described the goal as making Yahoo into a “starting point” for users on the Web. In the Carol Bartz regime, the preferred catchphrase appears to be putting Yahoo at the “center of people’s ...
Bits: Yahoo Plans to Unveil a Revamped Home Page
NYT > Technology —
... and again that it wanted to provide something of a dashboard that offered its users a view not only into their favorite Yahoo content and services, but also into third-party applications and sites that they use frequently, like Facebook, eBay or Gmail. The idea was also to make it easy for users to customize that experience. Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder and former chief executive, had described the goal as making Yahoo into a “starting point” for users on the Web. In the Carol Bartz regime, the preferred catchphrase appears to be putting Yahoo at the “center point of ...
