Yahoo! is relaunching My Yahoo!, their personalized home page service to respond to the fast changes on the web by Google, MS Live, and even Netscape recently. I'm not using the My Yahoo! Service since long time, though the participation in the new beta is very limited (already closed at the time I'm writing this) I'm not really sure if I will switch from Google personalized home page.

Many new features are announced in the new My Yahoo! beside getting an AJAX lifting, you can create your own page with personalized content and share it with your friends. Page shared will be added automatically in your friends home pages, but the negative point here is that Yahoo! (as usual) will show you advertising spot that you cannot remove, thing that others personalized home page service are not doing. Currently My Yahoo! doesn't support but this is planned in the future according to Yahoo. (Via TechCrunch)

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Just launched, Yahoo Suggestion Board is not a Digg clone, but an excellent way to hear feedback from users to improve Yahoo! Services. The idea looks amazing, how to make users improve services in a very social way with a web2.0 interface.

It's excellent also to see what do people think about Yahoo! services and what feature they want most. What I find great is that Yahoo! guys are listening and answering all comments, many suggestions have been closed already. Suggestion is available for Autos, Mixd, TV, YDN, Gallery, localmaps, Travel, food, hotjobs, realestate, upcoming, siteexplorer, Custom, Pipes, answers and groups. It's not everything, but already a big list, and don't try to find a board for Suggestion itself because there is not anyone.

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After lots of rumors about the deal MyBlogLog and Yahoo!, the news is now official that MyBlogLog is now part of the Yahoo! Developer Network. Jeremy Zawodny posted the news on his blog and the YDN blog, the deal size haven't been disclosed but rumors talking about $10 millions. Jeremy announced also on his blog that plans are to help MyBlogLog to grow as fast as it can while adding a ton of useful features, and I think it will began by supporting the Yahoo ids for logins. You can read more about the acquisition on the MyBlogLog Blog. MyBlogLog is becoming a part of Yahoo! We're all moving to San Francisco. We officially bleed Purple and Yellow (although unofficially, I'll always bleed Orange and Blue - Go Gators! National champions in basketball AND football, yo!).

Yahoo! is going to put loads of resources into MyBlogLog and help us roll out a ton of new features. Plus, we're moving to their infrastructure, which should help with those occasional slowdowns.

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Yahoo! have just launched Yahoo! Food a new delicious website which prove that Yahoo! is still on top of portals on the web. The design is very original and very web 2.0, powered by the Yahoo User Interface library. The website offers everyday recipes, depending on what you are looking for : something quick, healthy or classic with recipes provided by many other websites such Allrecipes.com, Eatingwell.com, Food & Wine ... etc.

There is also recipes for special days, and many guides for local dining, restaurants, special occasions, entertaining, cheers, healthy ...etc. I find the website really consistent and really rich, you can even find the buzz recipes that people was looking for most like : banana bread, chili, potato soup, cupcakes, pumpkin bread, applesauce, tamales, butternut squash, sugar cookies, French toast. In addition to experts blogs and Videos, Yahoo! Food become one of the most rich food websites, until it add international cuisine it will become certainly my favorite.

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Yahoo! Tech have just been launched with very neat user interface, design, and great features. You can search and fine your tech products with price comparaison feature, in addition to reviews and rating of products which will help considerably to choose the right product you are looking for. With Yahoo! Tech you can :

* Sort products by price, brand, and expert rating
* Read reviews by real consumers, or write your own
* See picks from Consumer Reports, and more

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Congratulation to Yahoo! Mail, Hitwise awarded Yahoo! Singapore Mail as the No.1 Mail in Singapore.

Source image from Flickr

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