[photopress:scaled.IMG_1318.JPG,full,pp_image] Got a moment to play with Yahoo! Go 3.0 Beta on Symbian hardware and it looks pretty nice. It has a sort of carousel interface with news, maps, and messaging and, sadly, doesn’t really filter images for taste and aesthetics, as we see here. It works with Blackberries, most Nokias, and the UIQ Sony-Ericssons. They were also showing off Yahoo’s oneSearch on the iPhone, which is a web page optimized for Safari and looks about the same as everything else that’s written for Safari. Strangely, the booth was stuffed way in the back of the show here along with AOL and the porn purveyors. Sad sad sad. [photopress:scaled.IMG_1319.JPG,thumb,pp_image][photopress:scaled.IMG_1323.JPG,thumb,pp_image] Product Page → Read More
The New York Times rightly recognizes that not everyone wants to look like a zero, whipping out a BlackBerry every 27 seconds to check their e-mail. That said, who wouldn’t want to periodically read some e-mail, so long as it doesn’t become obtrusive? Mr. Pogue looks at a few services and apps that lets ordinary cellphones, in one way or another, check e-mail. Woo~! → Read More
I got the chance to play with the Symbian version of Yahoo Go, Yahoo’s standalone networked application that offers news, weather, traffic, and Yahoo! search from a handset. It’s fairly full-featured and even supports Yahoo mail. → Read More
Yahoo! Go for TV will release a new beta version tonight with better Flickr integration, picture in picture viewing capability, movie recommendations from Yahoo! Movies, the ability to access music on your local network and support for a larger number of TV tuner cards. The basic Yahoo! Go for TV product is a downloadable digital video recording service for Windows machines. The first version launched in April. It’s competition with Microsoft’s Windows Media Center, which is preloaded on computers at purchase versus the free download from Yahoo! Yahoo! Go for TV previously allowed users to peruse various general streams from Flickr (“interestingness” for example) but will now provide access to personal photos so those can be shared with a group around the tube. Windows Media Center allows photo display but doesn’t include an online component. The Yahoo! movie recommendation engine on Yahoo! Movies asks users to define their taste on a continuum from indy to Hollywood and then rate up to 10 apparently psychologically revealing movies. It then suggests movies playing in theaters near you, movies available for purchase on DVD and movies playing on TV. The previous version of Yahoo! Go for TV didn’t offer any personalized recommendations. Windows Media Center allows movies to be purchased through MovieLink. The ability to access locally stored music is already available from Microsoft’s product and the feature’s absence was a common complaint when Yahoo! Go for TV launched. I won’t try to do an extensive comparison of the two services here, but if you are interested in a media center type service then you can check out Yahoo! Go for TV will be a more full featured option starting today. Flickr users may be particularly interested. → Read More
Yahoo launched Yahoo Go today, a DVR and general Microsoft Media Center competitor based on the recently acquired Meedio technology. The feature list is comprehensive: Use Yahoo Go to manage photos, search Yahoo videos, watch stored movies on your hard drive, listen to music and manage television shows via a full DVR (like Tivo or Microsoft Media Center). Yahoo Go is only available for Windows machines. It’s going to be hard for Yahoo Go to compete with Microsoft’s Media Center for the simple reason that it won’t be built into millions of PCs like Media Center is. But at least they are now in the game. More from GigaOm (my head still hurts from drinking scotch with you last night, Om) and Dave Zatz. Screen shots below. → Read More
