No idea about any one else, but I got an email from google telling me that iGoogle was going to be shut down. Not happy as that is my home page. So, I for one will be going back and using My Yahoo in its place. Couldn't care less about new staff or redesigns, its just going back to what I know. So, I wonder if this will attract users back, or new users.
Marissa Mayer Rolls Out a New Yahoo.com
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#72One way to lose the late-nineties/early-oughts associations with Yahoo: kill the toolbar once and for all. Who uses those things? Is that really a revenue-generator for them? And if so, at what cost to their image as a holdover from a bygone era?
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#73It's disappointing that Yahoo = Mayer now in the media. I'm sure that plenty of talented people spent a lot of time on this, only to have it sound like Marissa Mayer coded the whole damn thing herself.
Yahoo! needs to regain credibility after Bartz ran it into the ground amid claims of overcompensation. Having someone like Mayer as a public leader with accountability will be a positive thing.
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#74No idea about any one else, but I got an email from google telling me that iGoogle was going to be shut down. Not happy as that is my home page. So, I for one will be going back and using My Yahoo in its place. Couldn't care less about new staff or redesigns, its just going back to what I know. So, I wonder if this will attract users back, or new users.
Can you add any arbitrary OpenSocial app to the My Yahoo thing?
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#75I know this may not be appropriate but wow is she cute [1] and hot [2] at the same time. And on top of that she is brilliant, regardless of how her gig with Yahoo! turns out. Which makes her even more attractive.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marissa_Mayer.jpg
[2] http://www.glamour.com/images/women-of-the-year/1103-marissa...
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#76Infinite scroll breaks the metaphor of the sidebar! The indicator no longer tells me how much more content there is on the page. I've hated it ever since Facebook started doing it with photos.
Seems like the next step is to put the scrollbar under programmatic control.
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#77Their search looks like Google looked some years ago. Not bad, though. The design is now a bit more clear to navigate. But I still don't know what Yahoo is about. Is it a search engine? Is it a news page? Is it for email? What is it? Too much stuff at the same time is confusing. I have been using Yahoo since 1997 (I think), and I still can't answer that question. Its like AOL.
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#78"Overall it was important to me that the page be dynamic, that it feel very fresh, and that it be very intuitive, and that it really tries to embody beautiful design" Is that really supposed to mean anything? It sounds like buzzword soup. It should kind of go without saying that she wants the site to be fresh, intuitive, and beautiful. I don't think anyone wants a stale, frustrating and ugly website. That said, news…
This is a fluff piece aimed entirely at nontechnical readers. "Beautiful", "intuitive", "dynamic", "personalizable", and so on are exactly the words this audience wants to hear. They wouldn't understand anything more jargon-y and don't care how the site was built, they just want to know how they're going to feel while using it.
I wasn't looking for an explanation of how the site was built at all. I really think she could have came up with an explanation of the goals of the redesign that actually meant something. For example:
"We wanted the site to feel fresh, intuitive, and beautiful which why we put a lot of work into the new real-time news feed, gave the homepage a simpler, less cluttered design, and took inspiration from designs that are both modern and timeless".
What was really lacking in the original quote was substance. She could have used the very same first half the quote then pointed at one thing that qualified the redesign as being each of those adjectives and it would have went from buzzword soup to a meaningful statement.
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#79I know this may not be appropriate but wow is she cute [1] and hot [2] at the same time. And on top of that she is brilliant, regardless of how her gig with Yahoo! turns out. Which makes her even more attractive. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marissa_Mayer.jpg [2] http://www.glamour.com/images/women-of-the-year/1103-marissa...
may not be appropriate???
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