Yahoo! Music Blog ยป Search, Click, Play, Hear Music.
Yahoo! Search has just added a new feature which allows you to listen to the full tracks of songs you search up on Yahoo! Search. This is within the expanded results it used to give earlier for certain searches - except that you can now hear the full song instead of samples. Which reinforces my point - if you use Y! Search you’ll find that it is pretty darn good and has features no other search engine has. This particular feature is very helpful for people interested in quizzing (like me), because at times I need to search up songs related to some movie for including in / preparing for a quiz, and I need to be able to listen to the track to see iof it’s the correct one. Best of all, the whole thing is legal (because of their tie-in with Rhapsody). The browser-based player they use is pretty darn nifty too.
Ubuntu gets hopping with ‘Jaunty Jackalope’ - Yahoo! News.
‘Jaunty Jackalope’?! I think this whole Ubuntu-should-be-named-with-rhyming-words thing is going a bit to far. I mean, Jaunty Jackalope sounds like the nickname given by some shitty newspaper journo to some serial paedophile.
Yahoo! seems to’ve given up totally on social networking as a viable business. They’d already been ignoring Yahoo! 360 for a while. Then they launched Yahoo! Mash, their beta attempt at a social network. Doesn’t seem to have worked either (obviously, because I’m only one in my circle I know who’s on Mash, apart from Lord Vader that is), because I got an email from them today:
Dear Yahoo! Mash member,
Thank you for trying out our Mash Beta service. We hope you had fun with it.
Please note that we will shut down Mash on September 29, 2008. As a result, your current profile on Mash will no longer be available. We strongly recommend that you return to http://mash.yahoo.com and copy the content that you wish to save onto a separate document.
For a list of FAQs, please refer to the Mash Help Page.
Thanks for trying out Mash!
Matt Warburton
Yahoo! Community Manager
In a way, it does make sense. Yahoo! is concetrating more on developing platforms than services itself. It’s a member of the OpenSocial Foundation, and since it’s anyway too late for the Yahoo! - or even Google - to enter the social networking game they find it easier to create platforms which everybody else uses, like OpenSocial.
