MyYahoo! gets Web2.0
March 9th, 2007 by pamela
MyYahoo! has had a bit of a Web 2.0 overhaul, making the world’s most popular customisable homepage (the service has 50 million monthly users) even more easy to personalise and holds more interactive features than ever before.
According to a post at Read/Write Web, who managed to get a look at the private beta version (only a small number of users being offered a beta account at http://cm.my.yahoo.com/upgrade. Yahoo will use their feedback to make any necessary changes before a full launch later this year), the MyYahoo! upgrade has some great new features including;
- pre-built personalized page for each user, based on data Yahoo has already gleaned from their usage of Yahoo properties - the design of the page is closely aligned with yahoo.com;
- Category pages for topics such as cooking, plus “content suggestions”;
- Users can further customize their page with drag-and-drop modules, and new four-column and small search box layouts;
- Feed previews and a full post reader on the page;
- Editable Personal Assistant with instant access to things like Yahoo! Mail, horoscopes, local traffic, etc;
- Redesigned modules from Yahoo! and select partners, with games, music, commerce, sports updates, weather, finance portfolios, TV listings, etc;
- Sharing feature, enabling users to send their My Yahoo! page or favorite modules to friends and family - note, this is very similar to Pageflakes’ sharing feature, only Yahoo told me that their sharing service doesn’t require sign-ups;
- More “new interactive modules” to come
There are some great screen shots here, and it seems to be a positive upgrade. We’ll just have to hang on for a while to see the real thing.
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