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June 5, 2006

Yahoo My Web Relaunches Tonight

Michael Arrington

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About a year ago, Yahoo launched a new social bookmarking service called Yahoo My Web 2.0. The service has gone mostly unchanged in the time since then, and of course Yahoo acquired del.ico.us in December 2005.

But just as Yahoo continues to run Yahoo Photos as a separate property from subsidiary Flickr, Yahoo My Web continues to evolve even after the del.icio.us acquisition. Tonight at 7 pm PST, The site will relaunch with a much better user interface and a number of feature enhancements. Just as Yahoo Photos pulled in the best features of Flickr, Yahoo My Web is taking some of the better features of del.icio.us that weren’t previously included.

A screenshot of the new UI is below. A screenshot of the current UI, which will disappear after 7 pm, is here.

New Yahoo My Web features:

  • Addition of “Top Tags” and “Interesting Today” for discovery
  • Search by Tag prominently displayed at top of page
  • No login required to browse bookmarks
  • Users can monitor bookmarks from other taggers without their permission
  • Bookmarks can be exported to other applications
  • More Ajax (example: moue over name to view a user’s profile)

Yahoo also dropped the “2.0″ from the name of the application. Their reason? To avoid confusion with the “web 2.0″ meme. While I doubt that this has anything to do with the recent trademark issues around the term, I do find the timing of the renaming interesting.

Yahoo won’t comment on the number of My Web users, but did note that 30 million web pages have been bookmarked by users since the service launched.

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  1. PrimoMailer.com

    June 5th, 2006 at 5:22 pm

    This is going to be sweet, finally a nice, clean interface to web based bookmarking.

  2. Coolington

    June 5th, 2006 at 5:39 pm

    Fix the Yahoo acquired del.icio.us part in your post - it shows 2 http:// thus people clicking on it will end up on a broken link.

  3. kyle

    June 5th, 2006 at 6:29 pm

    i would love to use yahoo myweb, the interface is much nicer. however, i’ll stick with delicious until they stop asking me to login every 24 hrs

  4. Jeremy Zawodny

    June 5th, 2006 at 6:34 pm

    Unless the folks at work have been pulling my leg, dropping the 2.0 really had nothing to do with the recent uproar in O’Reilly world.

  5. Don Wilson

    June 5th, 2006 at 6:56 pm

    Why is my first name a popular tag?

  6. Michael Arrington

    June 5th, 2006 at 6:59 pm

    Jeremy - Yes, I am 100% sure you are right. Still, I love the timing.

  7. Greg

    June 5th, 2006 at 7:24 pm

    Interesting design, although I don’t like how everything is now crummed together with a fixed width instead of the old fluid one.

    Cheers!

  8. motivr

    June 5th, 2006 at 8:05 pm

    I like the design and features. Especially the ability to save a copy of the page looks good.

  9. David Brunelle

    June 5th, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    Anyone else find it frustrating that Yahoo has a habit of not rolling its acquisitions into their own products? I’m sure that eventually del.icio.us will be combined with MyWeb, and Flickr will be combined with Yahoo Photos. It causes my ADD to act up when I can’t decide what “basket to put my eggs in.” I’m curious to see what happens in the long term.

  10. cvander

    June 5th, 2006 at 9:12 pm

    Can somebody teach Yahoo how to merge products?

  11. Farhad

    June 5th, 2006 at 9:40 pm

    I say Yahoo is having a come back by being the first to invest heavily in social search!
    Yahoo vs. Google will be an interesting war to watch

  12. Razvan

    June 5th, 2006 at 10:51 pm

    This could be a del.icio.us killer…but they already own del.icio.us. WTF? I use a bookmarklet for some time that allows me to post in both sites, but with this move a real merging is required.

  13. Edwin Khodabakchian

    June 5th, 2006 at 10:52 pm

    The pictures looked slick so I created an account and uploaded my bookmark. The result was a disappointing mess :-( May be it was difficult to absorbe the transition from a tree view to a purely tagged view. May be it was because bookmarks contain a mix bag of things (sites, services, documents, feeds….) which could each have their own metaphor: netvibes for sites/services, bloglines/wikio/rojo for feeds, search for documents. In some way, everyone is in the race to becoming the first page the user will go to navigate his web.
    -Edwin

  14. RBA

    June 6th, 2006 at 1:05 am

    It’s interesting to see that people get upset because Yahoo isn’t quickly integrating these acquisitions, namely Flickr and Delicious.

    When Yahoo acquired eGroups and transformed it into Yahoo Groups I could hear people screaming from all parts of the world “leave it alone”, “what have you done” and so on… Fast-forward 6 years and just a few weeks ago when people were told they’d be required to have a Yahoo ID to sign up on Flickr, same thing…

    And now, because Yahoo has learned (I think) that they should not RUN into taking those acquisitions that already have a mass of loyal users, some people seem to be getting upset as well.

    I trust Yahoo knows what they’re doing a lot better than whan some may think. Thinkg is, they certainly are.

  15. Clampants

    June 6th, 2006 at 4:51 am

    Perhaps unrelatedly, but I just noticed that my Yahoo Groups mail (forwarded to my gmail account) overnight became “formatted.” It went from text-based to “rich text and hyperlinked” with lots of white space and bold text…with a footer at the bottom that says:

    “We Made Changes
    Your Yahoo! Groups email is all new.”

  16. Joy

    June 6th, 2006 at 7:04 am

    I do not understand why yahoo is not integrating their acquisitions like del.icio.us and flickr in their existing products. Why are they modifying MyWeb and Yahoo! Photos when they really should be adding more features to del.icio.us and flickr? I’m really confused..

  17. Tom Chi

    June 6th, 2006 at 7:25 am

    So… Joshua sits about 15 feet away from me, so it’s not like we don’t get to talk shop about social bookmarks. Rest assured there are really nice plans for how it all plays out, but you’ll have to wait a bit. In the meantime it would be pretty cool if people would hatch crazy theories and send around photoshop fakes like they do for apple products :) — but I’d already be happy if you tried out the new product and got some use from it.

    Oh, and kyle? That 24-hour login problem will be all good in a couple weeks.

  18. David Brunelle

    June 6th, 2006 at 8:40 am

    @ RBA # 14: My issue with Yahoo’s delay in integrating their acquisitions with their own products is mostly about a concern over product lifecycle and support. Example: I’ve been using de.icio.us for a while now. When Yahoo decides to stop supporting del.icio.us (and we all know it’ll happen someday) what happens to all of my data? Will it be moved gracefully? Will I lose tags?

    Same goes for Flickr. What happens to my photos when they decide to roll Flickr into Yahoo photos? Will my social network on Flickr be preserved?

    So my primary concern here is what happens to Flickr and del.icio.us in the long term. Should I jump ship and migrate to MyWeb and Yahoo Photos on my own?

    Right now we’re all stuck with one or the other. I’m not sure if anyone else shares my concerns.

  19. murph

    June 6th, 2006 at 9:35 am

    i started with del.icio.us but switched to Yahoo because they save a copy of the page. that being said, there are still a lot of features Yahoo My Web is missing.

  20. Kevin cheng

    June 6th, 2006 at 9:45 am

    A couple of things I think worth noting over del.icio.us.

    1) MyWeb caches pages so if you’re saving a useful article or blog post, you don’t have to worry about it disappearing.

    2) MyWeb’s saved pages (and your contact’s pages) show up in Yahoo! search results at the top. This was actually the turning point for me to switch over. There’s been so many times when I’ve searched for something (e.g., “fonts” or “htaccess”) and found definitive guides or resources bookmarked by my contacts.

  21. Nathan Arnold

    June 6th, 2006 at 9:45 am

    David, rest assured, Yahoo! is not going to stop supporting del.icio.us and flickr by integrating them with MyWeb and Y! Photos. That’s not what Stewart and Joshua signed up for…

  22. dumbfounder

    June 6th, 2006 at 11:04 am

    I think dropping the 2.0 makes sense, it was a version number was it not? There was a 1.0, but then the 2.0 version was a play on web 2.0, but now that isn’t as applicable, even though this version is more web 2.0 than the old. So confusing. Which is probably why they dropped it.

    Anyways, Dumbfind will be launching its own social search community soon. Stay tuned for the dumbunity…

  23. Steve

    June 7th, 2006 at 12:23 am

    Well it certainly a lot better than Google’s 2 bookmarking products

  24. Steve

    June 7th, 2006 at 12:26 am

    ” David

    It allows the importing of del.ici.ous data already

  25. Bestestdev

    June 8th, 2006 at 8:36 pm

    Regarding the dropping of the 2.0 — In my personal opinion I think it just sounds better. Somehow I doubt it had too much to do with Web 2.0, but MyWeb sounds alot better without the 2.0 attached. Maybe it’s the fact that Web is one syllable, making the 2.0 sound sleeker, while as ‘Yahoo MyWeb’ is four… I don’t know it just makes it roll off the tongue better in my opinion =D

  26. Tovi

    February 3rd, 2007 at 6:30 am

    Dear all

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