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View your Facebook news feed items via Yahoo! Mail

kuanhoong — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:02:21 +0000

Yahoo! is integrating most of Facebook features into Yahoo! Mail. Previously, Yahoo! Mail users can import Facebook friends email addresses into Yahoo! and also post Facebook status from Yahoo! Mail. Now it is possible to get latest Facebook news feed items from inside Yahoo! Mail.

To turn on these features, first link your Yahoo! and Facebook accounts by clicking on the “Add to Facebook” link in the status section on the What’s New page in Yahoo! Mail.

As per Yahoo! Mail Blog:

Like many of you, I am an active Facebook user and have been using many of the Facebook-related features we’ve added to Yahoo! Mail since we announced our plans to integrate Facebook more deeply across all of Yahoo! last December.

Specifically, in Yahoo! Mail we’ve enabled you to import Facebook friends email addresses into Yahoo!, made it simple to post your Facebook status from Yahoo! Mail, and more. Today I’m thrilled to announce another new integration launching to all users* that enables you to view, comment, and like your Facebook news feed items – all right from Yahoo! Mail.

Facebook activity from your friends will now appear in your Updates section, alongside your friends’ activity on Yahoo!, Twitter, Flickr and so on. Now you can get all your Updates in one place, right when you log in to Yahoo! Mail.

By default, both Yahoo! and Facebook items are intermingled, however you can have the option to filter – All Updates, only Yahoo!, only Facebook – by clicking on the tab.

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Update Your Facebook Status via Yahoo Mail

kuanhoong — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:22:44 +0000

Besides the recent feature where you can import Facebook contact into your, now there is another new feature from Yahoo Mail. Now you can update your Facebook status while Checking Yahoo! Mail.

To turn on these features, first link your Yahoo! and Facebook accounts by clicking on the “Add to Facebook” link in the status section on the What’s New page in Yahoo! Mail.

To update your Facebook Status: Simply start typing what’s on your mind in the status box, and then choose where you want to share it – Yahoo!, Facebook or both.

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Galleries – Flickr allows you to create gallery to showcase photos

kuanhoong — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:42:00 +0000

Galleries is a new feature by Flickr. Basically, with Galleries, you can create showcase and assemble collections of up to 18 photos –and this time not just your own shots.

According to Flickr blog:

There’s a long list of features that we’ve wanted to develop for our members. Giving our members a way to celebrate the creativity of their fellow members has always been high on that list. Today, we’re thrilled to launch our newest feature: galleries.

For whatever you find interesting, fascinating, or mind-blowing on Flickr, galleries are a way to curate up to 18 public photos or videos of your fellow members into one place around a theme, an idea or just because.

To create a Gallery just go to a photo or video that you want to add and click "Add to gallery." From here you can create a new gallery or add the image to an existing one. The "Add to gallery" icon will be available on "safe" photos and videos. If you’re viewing content and don’t see the icon, it’s because the member has decided not to allow their content be available for galleries.

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Attach up to 100MB files to your Yahoo! Mail

kuanhoong — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:11:00 +0000

Yahoo! Mail now allows you to attach up to 100MB files via the integrated drop.io’s s pre-installed Attach Large Files application. The application allows people to seamlessly share groups of photos, documents, movies and more, combining the power of drop.io as a media & file sharing backbone with Yahoo! Mail.

As per Yahoo!Mail Blog :

Today, we’re pleased to announce that people using Yahoo! Mail now have the ability to attach up to 100MB of files to each email using drop.io’s new Attach Large Files application. Best of all, it only takes one click and there is no sign-up or registration!

Drop.io is the simplest way to privately share exactly what you want with whom you want online – all in real-time and across all platforms (web, mobile and more).

Our application makes it easier to share groups of photos, documents, movies and more, by combining the power of drop.io as a robust media & file sharing platform with Yahoo! Mail, one of the world’s most popular email services.

People can access the Attach Large Files app from the Applications Box in the lower left-hand corner of their Yahoo! Mail inbox and using the app is simple:

Click “Attach Large Files” — this brings you to the drop.io welcome page

Next click “Select Files” — add as many files from your computer as you want up to 100MB. You’ll recognize drop.io’s distinct upload interface that displays the queued files, their file size and allows you to cancel any of them either before or during upload.

Next click “Upload and Compose Email” – users are brought to a new email, populated with thumbnails and links to view and download the attachments.

You may check out drop.io’s video screencast for more details about how the app works.

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Now you can twit via Flickr

kuanhoong — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:08:55 +0000

With the soaring popularity of Twitter, now you can also twit via Flickr. Recently. Yahoo has released a feature that lets user post Flickr photos to their Twitter accounts.

The Twitter2Flickr feature requires that you enable Flickr as an approved application that can tweet under your username. When you click the “blog this” link above a photo at Flickr, you’re presented with the option to twitter it. The tweet will come with a “flic.kr” shortened URL.

If you’d like to Twitter your Flickr then check out the following three FAQs for easy setup and use:

How do I Twitter my Flickr photos?
Can I post to Flickr and Twitter from my mobile?
How do I Twitter from Flickr?

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How to link your Twitter status updates to your Yahoo Messenger

kuanhoong — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:14:16 +0000

Twitter is the most famous micro-blogging web service at the moment. With the introduction of Yahoo! Profile, you can now easily link your Twitter status updates to your Yahoo Messenger 9.

In fact, you can roughly link up to twenty networks outside of Yahoo e.g. Picasa Web Album, Smugmug, Last.fm, Zooomr, YouTube, Pandora, Stumbleupon, and many more. You can also track your whereabouts more thoroughly within Yahoo’s network, like the sports, movies, and shopping silos.

Here are steps to link your Twitter status to your Yahoo! Messenger 9:

Step 1 : Login to your Yahoo! Profile by using your Yahoo! username and password

Step 2 : Select "Updates" and select "Share More". Enter your twitter username. You can select other web 2.0 services from here too. Simply enter the relevant usernames.

Step 3 : Select "Manage My Updates". Make sure "Share My Updates" is ticked, and allow "Twitter (tweet)" to be viewable by "Anyone".

Step 4 : That is it!. You are done. Continue with your tweets, and the tweet updates will be shown in your Yahoo! Profile as well as your Yahoo! Messenger 9 status.

It is that simple. Give it a try.

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Yahoo! Messenger is now available for iPhone/iPod Touch

kuanhoong — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:49:30 +0000

The all new Yahoo! Messenger is now available for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The latest Yahoo! Messenger iPhone app allows users to chat with their online buddies and it also comes with some new cool features. To download the new iPhone app, you can do it from this iTunes link.

http://vimeo.com/3951867

As per Yahoo! Messenger Blog:

Here are the top features of the new app:
Instant message: Send text messages back and forth with your friends, including emoticons and web links.
Photo sharing: Take a photo on your iPhone and send that, or grab one from your photo gallery to share.
Stealth settings: Sign in as invisible, or change your status to invisible once you’re in the app.
Custom status message: Enter a custom status message for your friends to see. You can even include a web link with it.
Recent conversations archive: Under Messages, tap a contact and you’ll see your most recent conversation. You can type in a message from there to start chatting again.
Special idle state: If you have to leave the app for whatever reason, like a call comes in or you click a link in an IM that takes you to Safari, the Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app will keep you signed in but change your status to idle. That way you can continue to receive messages and provided you return to the app within ten minutes, pick up where you left off.
Additional settings: Tap the Settings icon to change the sort order of your contact list, or to show or hide offline contacts in your list.

If you are not an iPhone or iPod Touch user, Yahoo! Messenger is available for other types of mobile phones including the Blackberry. Visit Yahoo! mobile site to find out what works with your phone.

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Yahoo! Sideline : Watch, search and monitor twitter timeline

kuanhoong — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:07:31 +0000

Yahoo! has launched a new application called SIdeline that lets you keep track of trends and search terms in Twitter from your desktop. In a nutshell, Sideline is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest.

Besides the ability to search terms and see messages from all Twitter users using those terms, you can also create Search Groups with the combination of multiple terms. e.g. “online streaming”, etc. If you would like to keep track of all the popular topics, there’s also a Trends area where you can check out popular topics across the Twitter network at the moment.

Sideline is an open source application released under the BSD license. The first beta release is out and the code is hosted on github.

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Yahoo! Image Search : Find Images Fast with New Filters

kuanhoong — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:16:05 +0000

If you are looking for images online, besides the Google Image, you can try to search images via Yahoo! Image Search. Now there is a new filter that helps you search images based on your requirements.

According to Yahoo! Search Blog :

The array of images available on the Web can be both a great resource and a daunting challenge. So, based on recent user tests, The Yahoo! Image Search team built new filters to make searching for images on the Web easier and faster.
This new set of filters helps you find what you want quickly, whether you are looking for black and white photographs of flowers, a sunset wallpaper, or images on Flickr. With the new Image Search filters, you can narrow down image results by color or black and white, by size, or even by specifying dimensions for the image results. You can also choose whether the images come from Flickr.
These filters are just the first improvements we will be rolling out in the coming months for Image Search. Stay tuned for more features that will make finding what you’re looking for a breeze.

Yahoo! Image Search.

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Yahoo Pingbox : Chat privately with visitors on your website

kuanhoong — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:08:00 +0000

Yahoo Messenger Pingbox is an embeddable IM application for web pages, social networks and blogs. With Yahoo Messenger Pingbox, you can sign in to your Yahoo account and start chatting with your visitors.

It takes only 3 steps to use Pingbox.

Step 1 : Style your Pingbox

You can start by creating your own Pingbox. Customize your Pingbox according to your favorite background, size, color, personal greetings and many more.

Step 2 : Add Pingbox to your page

Add it using our one-click button, or copy and paste the code to your page.

Step 3 : Chat with your visitors

Sign into Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 and receive private IMs from your visitors.

According to Yahoo Messenger Blog, Pingbox is now available as Facebook application :

Now you can put a Pingbox on your Facebook profile, and visitors to your page can IM you without having to download or sign into Yahoo! Messenger.
To add a Pingbox to your page, visit the Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox application page on Facebook. The same customization tools are available in the Facebook version, so you can personalize your online and offline greeting, choose from dozens of designs, and if you wish, require your visitors to give themselves a nickname before they can IM you.

Create your own Pingbox.

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