Yahoo! - Part 2

Yahoo Buzz! is now open to everyone.

Yahoo-buzz-logo-tm Are you banned from Digg? Are you an active person in sites like Digg, stumble ?

If you said yes, then you have a Happy news. As said in the title of this article, Yahoo Buzz! is now open to everyone. Previously it was a closed Beta.

Now without wasting much of your time..I will tell some of the points and you can hurry to grab the Buzz Button.

1. Its an Digg like site of Yahoo!.

2. Believed to be the most powerful (more than Digg — Tested).

3. As almost all net users have an YahooMail Id, many people can Vote for your story on Yahoo Buzz!, than on Digg, stumble etc.

4. Yahoo Buzz! site is looking clean and easier to use than any other Social Bookmarking site.

5. The featured article will be displayed on “Yahoo.com” and not just on “buzz.yahoo.com”.

6. Its now open for everyone.

Now Go Grab the Buzz button. And Buzz my stories also, if you find anything interesting in Technotip.org!

orelse here is a small work around for wordpress blogs…


<script type="text/javascript">
  yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "<?php the_title(); ?>";
  yahooBuzzArticleSummary = "<?php the_excerpt() ?>";
  yahooBuzzArticleType = "text";
  yahooBuzzArticleId = window.location.href;
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js"
  badgetype="text-votes">       
</script>

This code will get the Title, URL, and the excerpt of your article automatically to the Yahoo Buzz site, instead of manually inserting all these details.

And change “text-votes” to “square” or “small-votes” or “medium-votes” or “large-votes” or “logo” or “text” or “small” or “medium” or “large” to change the button type.

If you are using Blogspot, then remove these yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = “< ?php the_title(); ?>“; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = “< ?php the_excerpt() ?>“; two lines, and use the code. I think it will work. I have not tested it on Blogspot, but still hope it works fine. If anyone of you have tried this, then please confirm us, by leaving a comment below this article.

MyBlogLog and Delicious unveiled its new design

Recently MyBlogLog followed by Delicious unveiled its new design. MyBlogLog, has no new features introduced, where as Delicious has added one or two new features. Here are the screen shots.

MyBlogLog(Yahoo! Service):

mybloglog-new-theme

Delicious(Yahoo! Service):

Yahoo’s most popular bookmark sharing service Del.icio.us is now Delicious.com. If you type the old URL, then you will automatically be redirected to the new URL.

And the new design is also cleaner and first time users wont get confused(as was the case with older design). Ok, now take a look at the new design…

delicious-new-design
So whats new in Delicious… click here to explore.

Hope Yahoo! is hard at work to bring some new feel to some of its popular services…

New ad formate in yahoomail homepage

As we all know, search engine giants have always found new ways to show ads in order to make money.Previously yahoo started showing rollover ads(flash ads which start playing once we rollover our mouse pointer over it).

Today moring as I was checking my emails I came accross this peel ad in my yahoomail homepage.

We know that peel ads are sometimes annoying, as it may automatically come inbetween when trying to click something.But yahoo is smart enough.Their peel ad works only when we click on the click to peel option(as you can see in the below screenshot).

Here is the screen shot….

yahoo-mail-homepage-peal-ad

After we click on the click to peel, we get to see some ad in action, and click on it to see more details(taking us to the advertisers website) or you can just close the ad by clicking Close option(as you can see in below screen shot).

yahoo-mail-homepage-peal-ad-inaction-fullscreen

I saw that these ads are not still available in all yahoomail accounts.And I think, as I have my domain registered ( http://technotip.org ) at Yahoo, I am getting these new ad formate in my account.Hope Yahoo thinks me as a loyal Yahoo customer(and I am).

Another ad that I have seen is, a 200X200 ad in the leftside sidebar, inside yahoomail.

Take a look at it:-

yahoo-mail-sidebar-ad-200X200

Hope Yahoo! is working very hard these days, after Microsoft tried to takeover Yahoo.

We have recently seen Yahoo adding two more mail domain Ymail and Rocketmail to its basket, to provoid email address that you always wanted and was unavailable.

And signing up a deal with Google to show adsense ads or Google Adword ads in Yahoo search result pages.

I think these are all some good sign of improvement to Yahoo.

I wish Yahoo! a great success in all its good efforts.

Have you also seen these peel ads in your yahoomail homepage or anyother new ads other than rollover ads(rolled over to all yahoomail accounts) in your yahoomail.If so, please share it with us in the comment section.

New email domains for Yahoo! – Ymail and Rocketmail

Yahoo! Inc. Today is a celebration day…..atleast at Yahoo Inc.As they have just announced their two new email domains Ymail.com and Rocketmail.com.

Launched in October 1997, Yahoo! mail claims more than 260 million users worldwide, as a result of which many desirable e-mail addresses have already been taken for the yahoo.com( and yahoo.co.in or yahoo.co.uk or yahoo.co.au etc) domain.With the introduction of two new email domain choices, Yahoo! is will make millions of new email addresses available to the online community.

Ymail is expected to compete directly with Gmail of Google.
Rocketmail is rather a old email domain, and at one time was one of the most widely used and a fast webmail services which was regarded as an rival for Hotmail. Yahoo acquired Rocketmail.com in 1997 and used its technology as the foundation of its Yahoo Mail. After the Yahoo! acquisition of rocketmail , no new Rocketmail.com email addresses could be registered.But the earlier users were left to use and retain their email addresses.

Now we can register for any/all these 3 mail domains with our favorite ID names.

Many have tried to register for ymail or rocketmail by going to ymail.com and/or rocketmail.com(but it redirects to the same old yahoo login page.

Then how to register ?

Relax, just goto the same login.yahoo.com page and click on the signup now link.You will then be taken to the regular registration page.There you can select your email ID as well as the email domain.

A common Yahoo! ID will work for everything across the Yahoo! network, from checking email to checking out Messenger, Flickr, groups, finance, MyBlogLog and the rest hundreds of yahoo acquired sites and services.

The new mail domain comes with:-
ymail-login-page

Easily transition contacts and emails from other mail accounts with a handy wizard.

The @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com addresses deliver all the great features you love about Yahoo!

Find the @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com email address that’s you always wanted and was unavailable.

However you cannot change your current email address to the new ymail.com or rocketmail.com email address.

“A happy user is one that stays around and is a Yahoo! user for life,” Kremer Vice President, Yahoo! Mail, said.

NOTE: To login using your ymail or rocketmail ID’s, just open yahoomail.com and then type your full email ID( Ex:- technotip@ymail.com) and then enter your password(in password field) and then hit Signin, this will take you to the new ymail or rocketmail.

“If you have an email address that is your name at ymail, that becomes part of your identity.”

We already grabbed out technotip@ymail.com. What about you guys ?

MyBlogLog – Some tricky uses

We have seen many cases where people try to hack and crack some popular sites and damage the reputation of it.It has been true in case of MyBloglog too.

But lets concentrate on the things by which we can get advantage of.

MyBlogLog is owned by Yahoo Inc.

Now I will show you how to track the recent 127 visitors(Who are also members of MyBlogLog).

Click on add a website/blog link.Fill the small form and get your blog listed under your
My Sites and Services option.Now click on the widgets link below the website/blog listed.

It will look like the one shown in below image…

MyBlogLog

Your code will also look similar, except the ID number i.e., 200711051214522 in above case.

Just look for your code and copy the ID number(Just the number) and past it in one notepad or any other text editors.

Now look at the below code…


<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pub.mybloglog.com
/comm2.php?mblID=2007110514214522&c_
width=800&c_sn_opt=n&c_rows=10&
c_img_size=f&c_heading_text=&
c_color_heading_bg=FFFFFF&
c_color_heading=ffffff&
c_color_link_bg=FFFFFF&
c_color_link=FFFFFF&c_color_bottom_bg=FFFFFF">
</script>

Now replace the ID number(i.e., 200711051214522 ) from your ID number.

That’s it….now copy and past the entire code wherever you want to show your recent 127 visitors who are also members of MyBlogLog.
Optional: In the above code we have made the color of widget texts Powered by MyBlogLog into white, you can change it to the color of your blogs background.

One more use of MyBlogLog is, we can encourage people to comment on our blog.

i.e., we can get the logo of members who are currently viewing your blog(if he/she is logged into their MyBlogLog account).

Here goes the code…


<img src="http://ipub.mybloglog.com/i/v2005051600562336_req.jpg"
 alt="" width="48" height="180" />

Just copy and past the above code(without any modification), anywhere in your blog to get the profile pic.

Below is one such use, to ask the visitors to share their opinion/knowledge by commenting about the article.(make sure you are logged into MyBlogLog to see the effect in this page).

Please share your opinion/knowledge by commenting about this article..