February 7, 2012
Search engine Yahoo! may be down, but it’s not out. They’re still trying to find ways to remain relevant, and one way of doing that is a new app search feature. It is what it says. When you search for a keyword on Yahoo! you will now receive app results when appropriate. They are above [...]
November 4, 2011
This week, Yahoo launched its own magazine style app, Livestand, exclusively for the iPad. Similar to well established and popular apps like Flipboard, Zite, and Pulse, Livestand offers full access to the type of featured content you’re no doubt familiar with on the website. Though Livestand comes a little late in the game, it does contain a few unique features that might appeal to ardent iPad users.
October 17, 2011
If you and your Facebook friends are active readers of Yahoo-posted news, Yahoo has recently developed a way for Facebook members to share links to news articles they read from within the Yahoo News site. Called Yahoo News Activity, the service was launched at the Facebook f8 conference held a few weeks ago in San Francisco.
September 19, 2011
The long established, popular social bookmarking service, Delicious.com, is undergoing a major facelift after being acquired by the founders of YouTube. Although there’s not many details about the exact changes to the site, existing Delicious members must agree to let Yahoo transfer their bookmarks to the new company AVOS, by September 23 2011.
March 24, 2011
Yahoo launched a competitor to Google Instant this week called Search Direct, which aims to provide searchers with instant answers for their searches where possible. Search Direct has begun with 15 categories of instant answers, but hopes to expand to hundreds of categories in the near future. Yahoo intends to focus on delivering the answer directly to the user, rather than supplying a list of links which the user then has to click on.
October 28, 2010
Whether or not you’ve heard the news, if you have a Yahoo account then you’ve probably noticed subtle differences in many of the screens where your contacts and your status updates are managed. In December 2009, Yahoo Mail was integrated with Facebook. These days, if you’re a Yahoo user, you’ll discover connections to Facebook all [...]
October 26, 2010
Yahoo! recently released its latest update to the Yahoo! Messenger 2.0 [App Store link] application for the iPhone. This app lets you connect with your IM friends and make free voice and video calls to everyone on your Messenger account. You can also use it to make low cost calls to land line or mobile [...]
September 21, 2010
As the editor of MakeUseOf Answers I see a lot of tech-related questions every day. Since every question is moderated, most of the embarrassing fun is edited out and the most ridiculous questions never see the light of day. From an entertaining point of view that is too bad, but on the other hand, we [...]
September 8, 2010
One of the issues I’ve always had with my free Yahoo email account is the fact that it’s so difficult to deal with it anywhere outside of the online Yahoo Mail system itself. There aren’t very many online email systems that will let you extract email from your Yahoo account as easily as you can [...]
August 4, 2010
For all the jokes made at the expense of Geocities – and there are quite a few, including the hilarious Geocitiesizer – the fact is that for quite a long time it was the place for amateur web enthusiasts to build their own website. Most of the content may have been crap, but the fact [...]
