The leaves’ color transforms to an autumn palette as the brisk cool breeze sweeps through Silicon Valley… change is in the air and My Yahoo! is no exception. Below are some recent changes on My Yahoo!… and yes, preview on the Mail Preview app is back!
First off, we’ve improved the speed of the page by about 500 milliseconds (1/2 a second). This performance improvement may not seem like much, but if you are coming back to the site a few times a day and so is everyone else that uses My Yahoo!, we are literally saving all our visitors over 300,000 minutes every day!
We have a new comics App by GoComics that will give you easy access to dozens of comics. Save a few of your favorites and check them out every day.
There is now an updated design for the Mail app that mimics the layout found on the Yahoo! homepage. We originally had removed the hover preview feature (hover your mouse over an email and get a preview of the message) but have now put it back. Thanks for all the feedback letting us know how important that feature is to you. We actually have several new features coming soon that should make this even better… but that is a secret for now. 
If you have ever saved multiple locations on the Yahoo! network used to get weather data, they were not all recognized by My Yahoo!. We have merged all of these so that you now have one saved weather location repository. You can check it out on the Weather app.
We’ve also fixed several bugs and minor issues… the link in the TV Listings App for changing your time zone is fixed. Just click on “Options” and select “Settings” then click on the “change” link. The local news feeds that started showing stale data should be fixed now. The Fantasy Sports App should be more reliable and stable.
Lastly, we’ve been shutting down some old content delivery mechanisms. We have replaced the old feeds with news ones. As a side effect, you may see a duplicate of a feed on your page. If this happens, simply click on the “Options” menu and select “Remove” to delete the duplicate.
Apps showcased in this post:
- Add GoComics
- Add Mail Preview
- Add Weather
- Add TV Listings
- Add Fantasy Sports
That’s it for now. I’ll leave you with me singing and dancing about Yahoo! with Kimberly Caldwell of American Idol.
Michael
- My Yahoo! Team Lead
I LOVE YAHOO
great job on improvements. could you add a free game app?
Thanks! Here are a few game apps with more coming soon:
Lexulous
Flood-It!
Zynga Poker
Mafia Wars
i thinks thats cool!
any changes and updates are always welcome, espeically when for the better. Sometimes the interent is tricky and not always easy but when someone tried hard to make it better for all of us, it empowers our lives and betters our writing, soical networkings and connections much more than just allowing stagnation station to set in and stay set in.
thanks for the updates and newer, better features on yahoo and yahoo blogs and webs, etc and for the hopes of the continuance of such.
Sincerely,
Naomi Hamm aka delephine.hamm@gmail.com
thanks for the heads up…
The old Comics module was infinitely better! The new one will not display all of the comics on the My Yahoo page at once. You are basicall forced to go to an alternate page that freezes up when it’s loading, just to see your chosen comics. Not good!
Thanks for your comment. I have contacted GoComics and they assure me that they will continue to work on the new app to make it better than it already is. They are looking at adding additional comics to the app and well as improving the performance.
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Seems this old dog just might learn some new tricks after all! I do like the different themes for each tabs. The only gripe I have is the update space needs to have some more space added to it. And the upper toolbar takes up too much space. Can you do any tweeking so we can collapse them without deleting them and any info on them.
thanks for the updates. I love the preview on emails especially since I can no longer access emails from my office address. at least I can know what to pursue later on in the day.
love the new things on here…
thanks for the updates. I love the preview on emails especially since I can no longer access emails from my office address. at least I can know what to pursue later on in the day.
This improvement is nice,Cheer’s to YAHOO
nice features