Yahoo Meme is their answer to Twitter?
Twitter remains one of the most popular web services.
We have seen a couple of rival services emerging and then disappearing.
Jaiku and Pownce struggled to compete with the popularity of Twitter and are now practically history.
Yahoo however seems to be out with their own Twitter challenger named [...]
Yahoo Messenger 10 beta released
Yahoo has announced details on their upcoming updates to their core products.
The company also launched a beta version of their upcoming instant messaging product Yahoo Messenger 10.
Yahoo also talked about the upcoming changes to the Yahoo Mail webmail service.
Yahoo Mail would now feature new social networking features. Users would [...]
Gmail overtakes AOL Mail in USA
Google Gmail is now the third most popular webmail service in the US market.
It has just overtaken AOL Mail and now trails Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.
These results are from the latest figures released by comScore.
Gmail now has around 37 million monthly visitors in USA compared to 47 [...]
Yahoo to discontinue Term Extraction and Contextual Web Search services
Yahoo Developer Network has announced that they are going to close two of their services:
Term Extraction
Contextual Web Search
These services would no longer be available after the end of the current month.
A message on the Yahoo Group stated:
We now have an official closure date of [...]
Yahoo updates Delicious with new features
Yahoo has announced another updated feature on one of their services.
This comes just as the company has launched a new search engine on their Flickr photo sharing service.
Delicious has been updated with some new features which are aimed to more relevant in today’s times.
Yahoo has added updated [...]
Flickr Search now improved a lot!
Flickr is one of the largest photo hosting and sharing services in the world.
This Yahoo owned service is also a popular destination for professional photographers to showcase their stuff.
However, the service lacked decent searching features making it hard for you to find out what exactly you were looking for. [...]
Yahoo Image Search enhanced with points of interest feature
Yahoo has upgraded their image search service to make it more powerful and user friendly.
They have added a new service which highlights the points of interest when a user searches for a place.
If you search for a particular city, Yahoo would respond with popular travelling spots in [...]
Yahoo acquires Xoopit which makes Gmail ultra cool
Yahoo recently announced that they were acquiring a small tech firm Xoopit.
Xoopit is mostly known for their Firefox plug-in that changes the way you manage file attachments in Gmail.
Yahoo would probably use their expertise to make their Yahoo Mail service more powerful and capable.
Yahoo spoke [...]
Yahoo shutting down Geocities on October 26 this year
Yahoo has now confirmed that Geocities would be closed down later this year.
The closing day is set on October 26.
Yahoo had already closed new accounts on this service. All existing sites hosted on Geocities would disappear in October.
The company is advising people hosting sites on [...]
Yahoo releases a test version of Delicious add-on for Google Chrome
A lot of users complain that Google Chrome lack support for add-ons.
Google has been working on that and we are already beginning to see some results.
Yahoo developers have released an early edition of an add-on for Google Chrome.
This add-on is for their Delicious [...]
