Yahoo! launched its Messenger version 8 today, Yahoo which now also supports MSN contacts in one of its special version. The all new messenger has many amazing features including over 180 plugins. Apart from the usual messenger features it has Make Calls From Your PC, PC-to-Phone Calls, Phone-to-PC Calls, Photo Sharing, LAUNCHcast Radio, Yahoo! Games, IMVironments, Search, File Transfer, skins and a lot more.
Yahoo ! is all set to get AJAX’d . Soon after adding ajax to Alltheweb, Yahoo! launched its homepage preview (Beta) .
There are a lot of nice dhtml features on the new site, but instead of covering them again, one of the interesting ideas was the top widget that walks you through “what is newâ€.
As soon as you get into the helper widgets, your screen is taken over and overlayed with a nice walk through. This could be a nice pattern in itself as we could add really interactive help into our ajax applications that are truly builtin and showing you in the REAL application (not just showing screen shots).
- Ajaxian
Yahoo! Recently launched its new website Yahoo! Tech. The any other service it, Yahoo! Tech gives what you need. There are numorous products you can choose from and compare. Tagging makes it search friendly and the layout is completely Web 2.0. It also has 2 more great fetures,
Tech Advisors : Great advices related to tech gadgets and working.
My Tech : You can save any search or product you like and later view or compare them, its great if you have lot of options to choose from. A brief view of this tab is viewed on the right side too for easy navigation.
Yahoo recently launched Yahoo Go. The main competetor for Yahoo! Go is Microsoft’s Media Center , but Mike thinks it’s going to be hard for Yahoo Go to compete with Microsoft’s Media Center as it won’t be built into millions of PCs like Media Center is.
Key Features of Yahoo! Go for TV
photos from communities around the world.
Yahoo! Widget Engine includes these Widgets, and more:
• Picture Frame • Yahoo! Weather Widget • Yahoo! Notepad Widget • Day Planner • Yahoo! Search Widget • Yahoo! Maps Widget • Yahoo! Stock Ticker • Yahoo! Mail Checker • Yahoo! Contacts Widget and more..
System Requirements:
- Windows XP with Service Pack 1 installed or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 installed, or newer, or Mac OS X 10.3 or newer.
- A connection to the Internet.
- 512 megabytes of RAM is recommended.
Yahoo! Releases Instant Search, which is much like Google Suggest. Just that it shows up one result at a time with title and description which looks more like a search result rather than normal drop down suggetions.
Check out a whole range of other Yahoo! Beta’s at http://next.yahoo.com/
Rollyo is an amazing search utility which offers searches direct from the sources they need. Create a Search roll, with upto 25 URL’s and search a word you want to search. Tools include Firefox search plugin, Rollyo Searchbox on your websites and mailing of created search rolls. The Rollyo webmasters do like Firefox a lot ;), the search is Powered by YAHOO! SEARCH.
Rollyo is the fast, easy way to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust.
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Rollyo puts the power of Yahoo! Search in your hands, by giving you the tools to create your own personal search engines - with no programming required. All you have to do is pick the sites you want to search, and we’ll create a custom search engine for you.
Backbase, a website that makes rich AJAX applications has enabled AJAX in Y! Search or say it has built an AJAX Search powered by Y! Search ;) .
The Backbase Presentation Client (BPC) is an AJAX engine based entirely on AJAX technology, and differentiates itself via a generic User Interface declaration language (BXML). BXML is a XML application that also includes many XSLT and XPath functions. BXML is interpreted by the AJAX engine, and translated to native DOM commands in the browser. The Backbase AJAX Engine is developed in JavaScript, and it works in Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox and soon also in Opera and Safari. It does not require any type of plug-in, which differentiates Backbase from other RIA vendors.