Yahoo Changes Appearance and Features
June 16, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Communication, Software & Online Apps
I opened my Yahoo! Mail page this evening to check my email and noticed there’s a whole new version of interface. Like everyone else they’re providing the opportunity to do more "social" stuff like updating a status. The general appearance and layout has been cleaned up and sharpened a bit too.
I’m still working on some in-depth feature improvements. Texting isn’t new, unless I can get it to really work this time then that would be an improvement. The discussion about what’s new with social networking stuff included a twitter icon and YouTube, but still working on what’s involved in that …read more
Yahoo 360 Shutting Down
May 29, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Social Networking
Yahoo 360 was developed as a new social media portal platform that in my opinion never really took off. It was supposed to combine a social network functionality with all the content aggregation from other sources that you’re actively involved. It’s not a huge shock to me it’s shutting down.
I had a Yahoo 360 account because I had a Yahoo account. I’m not sure I ever used the Yahoo 360 platform. Did anyone really use it on purpose? To me it was just another one of those services that really wasn’t thought through well and didn’t offer anything new that …read more
Digg Adds New DiggBar Functionality
April 7, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Social Networking, Software & Online Apps
Digg.com has had its share of media exposure both good and bad. I’ve never been a huge Digg.com user, but will Digg pages that I find interesting and I think about it. I’ll regularly Digg stories from friends as well, but not blindly, only after I’ve read them and I think they’re worth Digging as well. That little process has been a bit clunky in my opinion, but Digg.com has made a change/addition that will make it a little easier.
You can click on the image above to see the full-version and notice the new Digg bar that they released that …read more






