AOL Revealed Project Phoenix New E-Mail Client
AOL is trying to jump ahead of the Facebook announcement of new e-mail client by revealing their Project Phoenix Email. Looking at the beta version, it closely resembled Google GMail. The new AOL e-mail will allow you to migrate your email accounts from Yahoo, GMail and MSN.
The full AOL Project Phoenix release will come in 2011. AOL will offer other domains like ygm.com, love.com, wow.com, and games.com.
Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Gets Green Light
Antitrust regulators in the U.S. and European Commission have given the green light to allow Yahoo to use Microsoft Bing search for a slice of ad revenue. Yahoo will focus on attracting big advertisers and share the revenue with Microsoft.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said, Yahoo gets to do what we do best: combine our science and technology with compelling content to build personally relevant online experiences to our users and customers.
Closer Look At Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo
Nick Bilton of the New York Times did a great summary comparing the big four tech company, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo. Check out the chart.
Source: A Big-Picture Look at Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo
YouTube Improves Accessibility With Automatic Caption
Google adds automatic caption to YouTube using the same technology as Google Voice. Now you can automatically add text captions to videos using speech recognition.
From Google Blog: As we’ve explained in the past, captions not only help the deaf and hearing impaired, but with machine translation, they also enable people around the world to access video content in any of 51 languages. Captions can also improve search and even enable users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they’re looking for.
Yahoo Adds Photos, Tweets To News
Yahoo is seen to be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon when the company includes tweets, photos and videos to news stories. Microsoft and Google had earlier announced plans to incorporate tweets into their search results.
Yahoo Geocities Shut Down Today
Geocities existed 15 years ago and most people probably forgotten about this web service which was purchased Yahoo for $2.8 billion in 1999. Yahoo stopped any new member registration earlier this year and today Yahoo will pull the plug on the service.
GeoCities allowed anyone to build a custom Web page for free and reserved a small amount of virtual storage to keep pictures and documents. Current Geocities users can move over to Yahoo! Web Hosting service.
Yahoo Finally Sucked In By Microsoft
Yahoo will soon join up with Microsoft in a new search deal. Yahoo will give up Yahoo Search and will start using Microsoft Bing for search engine. All the other Yahoo Services remain intact.
According to CommScore, Google has a 65% share of the U.S. search market, compared with Yahoo’s 19.6% and Microsoft’s 8.4%.
Yahoo Launches New Homepage Design
Yahoo has just launched a redesign of its homepage adding more personalized features and the ability to pull a wide range of third-party services into the website.
There is a new left hand side menu called My Favorites where users can customize links to Yahoo’s and other services, from news to social networks. Like Google apps, you can add over 65 widgets on the new Yahoo homepage. The Trend Setter box copies Twitter’s Trending Topics which features the current top 10 favorite searches.
Check out the new site at: http://m.www.yahoo.com/
Yahoo To Terminate Geocities
Geocities existed 15 years ago and most people probably forgotten about this web service which was purchased Yahoo for $2.8 billion in 1999. Yahoo has now stop any new member registration and will soon close it down. Current Geocities users can move over to Yahoo! Web Hosting service.
Yahoo To Lay Off 700 Staff
Yahoo has been loosing advertising revenues which resulted in profit falling by 78%. The online company will let go 700 staff from specific business units.
This is what came out of CEO Bartz’s mouth, We have engineers almost in every country, and we have way too many product people…We had one product management person for every three engineers. There were a lot of people running around telling engineers what to do, but nobody was [expletive] doing anything.
Source: Yahoo plans more job cuts as sales, profit fall
