RSSYahoo Enhances Bookmarking Service
By Ed Oswald | Published October 25, 2006, 12:35 PM
Yahoo made significant changes to its online bookmarking application, bringing it more in line with a similar offering from Microsoft in Windows Live Bookmarks. Whereas the company's del.icio.us product covers social bookmarking, Yahoo says the new Bookmarks product is intended for strictly personal use.
The bookmarking feature would also be more tightly integrated into Yahoo's toolbar product with a more prominent button advertising that feature. According to the company, nearly 20 million people use Yahoo Bookmarks, the most of any online service.
Among the changes are a redesigned user interface, thumbnails to allow for easy organization and access of saved bookmarks, advanced search functionality, "drag-and-drop" functionality, and the ability to save bookmarks through the Yahoo Messenger service.
Users of Yahoo's MyWeb product would be able to migrate to either Yahoo Bookmarks or del.icio.us depending on their needs.
"By focusing on the Yahoo! Bookmarks and del.icio.us brands we are able to deliver to consumers market-leading products for both personal and social bookmarking," Yahoo search product management director Tomi Poutanen said.
Wow, my "MyWeb" bookmarks were already there. Looks pretty slick. This is the kinda thing I was hoping for from Google bookmarks since I use most of the other Google services. I was a del.icio.us user for a long time, but before Y! bought them, they started getting slow and going down. Has anyone seen problems with del.icio.us lately?
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This is really a great News. I am going to post it on www.yahoofanclub.com Most of the Yahoo users hang out there. I think Yahoo's Bookmark is good idea. I format my PC regularly.
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I really love how much Yahoo! has been reavamping all their services...
- Josh
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Much better than Windows Live Favorites in ever regard.
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I am liking this new UI for the Bookmarks, and not only that, you can also get the beta for Yahoo toolbar 7.0. I like the toolbar too.
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