MyYahoo updates, tries to save face

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MyYahoo updates, tries to save face

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Because being in the brink of destruction is not something of worry enough for Yahoo to stop their scheduled updates now the new My.Yahoo is out. this just after Microsoft has soft launched My.Live and updated MSN with a beta and of course the new iGoogle looms closer as a unstoppable menacing force in terms of startpages that come from any of the big 4.

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some of the updates along with a new fresher look are:

More modules from content providers (New York Times, WSJ, etc.)
More modules that integrate content from other parts of Yahoo’s network (Flickr photos, Calendar, Movie Showtimes)
Better support for Third party email (Gmail, POP) and other services (Netflix and Facebook)
More layout options, tabbed browsing, other navigational improvements

Yahoo has reacted too slow in this area and while it remain the Top Starpage it has lost lots of users to Facebook, other social networks and of course other Startpages.

This makes this last update underwhelming because of the threat they face from Google, AOL, Ask, Microsoft and even Netvibes in their Space. pretty much the ONLY worthwhile announcement to come from it is that My.Yahoo will finally allow to third parties to develop Modular Startpage widgets for My.Yahoo. even then. this comes out so late that it is very doubtful My.Yahoo can keep from losing more users.

New MyYahoo

via Techcrunch