Yahoo copies Netvibes and LinkedIn
It is known that the My Yahoo personal page creation service (created in 1996) with 50 million users is also the most popular RSS aggregator on the Internet , noticeably ahead of Google Reader and Bloglines in popularity. As in the case of Yahoo Mail, the redesign of this service in the spirit of Web 2.0 means that the fashion for new interfaces has gone to the masses. It is Yahoo Corporation, which owns the most popular sites on the Internet, is the "engine" that moves Web 2.0 to the most conservative users, and there are millions of them. Now, Yahoo is no longer creating almost anything new, barely managing to copy the most successful ideas from other startups, although it used to be otherwise: in 1996, My Yahoo was probably the first such service on the Internet.
The new version of My Yahoo ( screenshots, traffic ) does not embody any original ideas. My Yahoo's beta version borrowed the best practices from renowned web-based personal web page services, like Netvibes and Pageflakes , as well as Live.com .
Borrowing is very successful, so the new version of My Yahoo has become much more interactive and functional, similar to a full-fledged program for the desktop. Among the new features is the automatic creation of a preliminary page for a new user based on his profile; support for full-text feeds (previously only headers were displayed); setting colors on a personal page; The export function, when a user can send his entire personal page or individual modules to friends, is very similar to the similar function of Pageflakes, but does not require authorization from the recipient.
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Regarding the upgrade of competitors , the director of the company Pageflakes, who until January of this year headed the division of My Yahoo, spoke out very critically. Among its claims is that My Yahoo service is closed for third-party developers and third-party services, so the content cannot be exported normally and even your personal page cannot be published in the public domain.
The Yahoo Answers Network system ( detailed description ) adds a social networking component to the well-known Yahoo Answers Q & A service. Now each of the 90 million users of this service can ask a question not abstractly to the “whole Internet”, but to a specific group of people. For example, only your friends. This feature is very useful in some personal, intimate matters. Here, LinkedIn Answers social network has become a model for copying. It is possible that similar functionality of social networks will soon appear in other services of Yahoo. In general, the Yahoo portal is gradually turning into one big social network based on Yahoo's social networking services Flickr, Del.icio.us, MyBlogLog, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, MyWeb, Yahoo Video, Yahoo Bookmarks 2.0 and Yahoo Photos.
The Yahoo Answers Network social network is another step towards modernizing the Yahoo portal in the spirit of Web 2.0.
The new version of My Yahoo ( screenshots, traffic ) does not embody any original ideas. My Yahoo's beta version borrowed the best practices from renowned web-based personal web page services, like Netvibes and Pageflakes , as well as Live.com .
Borrowing is very successful, so the new version of My Yahoo has become much more interactive and functional, similar to a full-fledged program for the desktop. Among the new features is the automatic creation of a preliminary page for a new user based on his profile; support for full-text feeds (previously only headers were displayed); setting colors on a personal page; The export function, when a user can send his entire personal page or individual modules to friends, is very similar to the similar function of Pageflakes, but does not require authorization from the recipient.
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Regarding the upgrade of competitors , the director of the company Pageflakes, who until January of this year headed the division of My Yahoo, spoke out very critically. Among its claims is that My Yahoo service is closed for third-party developers and third-party services, so the content cannot be exported normally and even your personal page cannot be published in the public domain.
The Yahoo Answers Network system ( detailed description ) adds a social networking component to the well-known Yahoo Answers Q & A service. Now each of the 90 million users of this service can ask a question not abstractly to the “whole Internet”, but to a specific group of people. For example, only your friends. This feature is very useful in some personal, intimate matters. Here, LinkedIn Answers social network has become a model for copying. It is possible that similar functionality of social networks will soon appear in other services of Yahoo. In general, the Yahoo portal is gradually turning into one big social network based on Yahoo's social networking services Flickr, Del.icio.us, MyBlogLog, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, MyWeb, Yahoo Video, Yahoo Bookmarks 2.0 and Yahoo Photos.
The Yahoo Answers Network social network is another step towards modernizing the Yahoo portal in the spirit of Web 2.0.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/5112/
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