{"id":306,"date":"2005-06-29T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T08:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/?p=306"},"modified":"2005-06-29T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T09:22:06","slug":"yahoo-my-web-20-quick-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/yahoo-my-web-20-quick-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! My Web 2.0 Quick Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#39;ll find here and there news about Yahoo&#39;s next service, <a href=\"http:\/\/myweb2.search.yahoo.com\/\">My Web 2.0<\/a>, a &quot;<em>social search product<\/em>&quot; as described by <a href=\"http:\/\/jeremy.zawodny.com\/blog\/archives\/004859.html\">Jeremy Zawodny<\/a>. For the official introduction, go read the announcement on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ysearchblog.com\/archives\/000130.html\">Yahoo! Search Blog<\/a>. For my unofficial quick review, just relax and sit back :)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Setting up My Web 2.0<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/yahoomyweb_main.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/yahoomyweb_main-s.gif\" alt=\"My Web 2.0 main page\" class=\"imgleft\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/myweb2.search.yahoo.com\/\">My Web 2.0<\/a> main page is your regular search page, from which you can dig either the whole web, or your owned tagged bookmarks. Hmm&#8230; Is it me or is there a <em>Flickrish<\/em> pink &quot;B&quot; in MyWeb ? ;)<\/p>\n<p>When setting up your account for the first time, you&#39;re politely asked if you want to install Yahoo&#39;s Toolbar, and if you want to <strong>import links <\/strong>from : <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your Yahoo Bookmarks (heh, I didn&#39;t even know I add some)<\/li>\n<li>your MSIE bookmarks. The cool thing is that it gets and stores your favorites from your disk in one click. Hmm, let&#39;s hope it&#39;s not fetching some private data as well :P The less cool thing is that there is nothing similar for Firefox.<\/li>\n<li>an RSS feed. It can be either a local feed (exported from your feed reader for example) or an online feed. You can for instance fetch your whole del.icio.us collection (<em>http:\/\/del.icio.us\/rss\/Yournick<\/em>) and it&#39;s stored with all the tags you&#39;ve already used. Cool too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Quick Tour in My Web 2.0<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/yahoomyweb_mypages.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/yahoomyweb_mypages-s.gif\" alt=\"your links\" class=\"imgleft\" \/><\/a> Now that we have imported a few links to play with, what does it look like in here ?<\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty standard link collection : links, titles, descriptions, tags. But then comes a few more or less interesting features : you can restrict the visibility of your links (all, friends, you) and, that&#39;s cool, you keep a <strong>cached copy<\/strong> of your bookmarks. Stumbled upon a cool page long ago and now it&#39;s gone ? Fear no 404, you can keep a copy, just like Google&#39;s cached page but for your personnal use.<\/p>\n<p>Caching pages has been a requested feature on del.icio.us for long now. I already can see a cool usage for My Web : keep it sync&#39;ed (on a daily basis for example) with your del.icio.us account and let Yahoo cache your bookmarks for further reference if needed. Think of it as a del.icio.us backup with saved pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/yahoomyweb_everyonepages.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/yahoomyweb_everyonepages-s.gif\" alt=\"Everyone's links\" class=\"imgleft\" \/><\/a> The main page has 3 tabs : <strong>Pages<\/strong>, <strong>Tags<\/strong>, <strong>Contacts<\/strong>. Pages (i.e. links, or bookmarks) and Tags and divided in three categories : yours, your community&#39;s, and everyone&#39;s links and tags. Of course, tags are presented in the now <em>de facto<\/em> standard and trendy <a href=\"\/blog\/images\/yahoomyweb_alltags.gif\">cloud form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/yahoomyweb_editpage.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/yahoomyweb_editpage-s.gif\" alt=\"My Web 2.0 : add a link\" class=\"imgright\" \/><\/a> Adding a link is done with the usual form where you fill in URL, title, description, tags and a few options (caching and privacy). The tag inputbox uses some sort of (Ajax based) assistant, but it&#39;s quite inefficient, slow, and lacks keywords. On this topic the best thing I&#39;ve seen yet is the unmatched <a href=\"\/blog\/images\/delicious_addlink.gif\">del.icio.us Add Link interface<\/a> : it&#39;s quick, efficient, suggests relevant tags, and segregates your own tags from the public ones.<\/p>\n<p>Editing an existing link is done with the same form : I wish they used inline editing within your main page, instead of having to open the form, edit things, save and watch your main page refresh. I guess this sort of Ajax improvements will be added later on, it&#39;s still in beta stage after all.<\/p>\n<h2>My Web 2.0 vs del.icio.us<\/h2>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\">del.icio.us<\/a>, My Web lets you store bookmarks with tags and in a &quot;social&quot; manner : see others&#39; bookmarks, copy them, share yours. The &quot;bonus&quot; that MW brings to this concept is that you can create your own link community : select a few Contacts who you know are experts in their domain, so you can copy their links thinking they will be top quality hand picked material.<\/p>\n<p>For example, your friend Jim knows everything in PHP. Add him as a contact and let him share his relevant links tagged with PHP, Code tips, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this feature could be easily integrated in del.icio.us : similarly to their Inbox feature, you could create as well your own list of del.icio.us users to specifically share items with them. Actually, I can bet this feature *will* be added to del.icio.us some day.<\/p>\n<h2>My Web 2.0 or del.icio.us ?<\/h2>\n<p>At the moment one thing is clear is my mind : del.icio.us has unbeattable clean and quick interfaces, and lets you add links with minimal efforts. Things are a bit slower on My Web and there is place for improvements there.<\/p>\n<p>Sticking with del.icio.us, there is still something uber cool to do with MW : keeping it sync&#39;ed with your del.icio.us account so you have a cached copy of all your links.<\/p>\n<p>I think the Community stuff (selecting Contacts to share links with) can be a great idea, for example when you are collecting material on a particular topic you are working with friends on. Imagine a group of students working together on some subject, this would be the perfect way to share their links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Tour of this upcoming feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14,100,63,11,101],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-articles","tag-delicious","tag-review","tag-web","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}