Comments on: New York Times Launches…MyYahoo

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By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:10:44 +0000

I’d love to use this, but it doesn’t seem to work on IE at work. And this is a corporate network, no funny-business on these machines, so I’m a bit surprised, considering this is the only website I’ve encountered here that has crashed the browser.

By: Rocky

Rocky — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:32:43 +0000

It works fine for me on Firefox, too. (Windows Vista)

The most interesting part of My Times is that you can pick from modules selected by Times journalists. Want to know what David Pogue is reading? You can click to see that he recommends Engadget, AppleInsider, Slashdot, Gizmodo and his own stuff. (Unfortunately, I can’t link to this page.) These pages are good resources that would be even more useful if they provided direct links to the RSS feeds so that you could subscribe with your preferred personal home page or news reader.

By: abarrera

abarrera — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:25:25 +0000

hmm leds, it’s working for me (FF 2.0.0.5 on Linux). Pretty cute that protopage, although the popups on the feed widgets are quite annoying. At least at first, while you try to work out the page.

By: leds

leds — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:41:09 +0000

seems not friendly to Firefox

By: David Moss

David Moss — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:24:18 +0000

Another start page offering white labelled services is Protopage

By: abarrera

abarrera — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:00:04 +0000

Well, it surely looks like myYahoo. One thing nobody has mentioned is their registration procedure. Most sites send you a confirmation email so you can activate your account. In this case, I was redirected directly to myNYTimes page without a confirmation. Great method to spam someone, specially with all the newsletters they offer!!!

After 1 year and they can’t get this right.. gets me thinking…

About the technology, it’s for sure our favorite mix of ajax, but I’m also curious if they’re using some kind of widget framework or toolkit.

By: AC14

AC14 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:54:35 +0000

Actually, I think they did an extraordinary job.

my.nytimes is much cleaner and faster than both the new my.yahoo, and google homepages (tho certainly not as many “modules” yet).

By: B.Ackles

B.Ackles — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:10:09 +0000

Well, I did a little research and clearly AJAX is the bread and butter of these sorts of frameworks. I’m just wondering why they all look nearly identical. Even Facebook uses this sort of click and drag architecture; only they’ve served a niche!

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:36:51 +0000

There are too many of these companies! They should focus on utilizing the existing applications instread of expending time and money into efforts that are too limited.

By: Digital Lifescapes

Digital Lifescapes — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:37:09 +0000

I find it hard to imagine that after “nearly a year in beta” this is the end result.

Perhaps those people who have never used a customizable home page template would find this NYT launch “newsworthy” (pun intended). I don’t.

By: B.Ackles

B.Ackles — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:02:45 +0000

What technologies are used to generate this framework. iGoogle, Netvibes, Pageflakes, MyYahoo!; they all seem to have a similar look and feel. Any developer with a clue?

By: mrshl

mrshl — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:27:53 +0000

Basically, they’ve implemented a clean, attractive, and smooth-rendering starting point for their own content. That’s a pretty good approach for a site with as much proprietary content as they have. Every NYTimes reader has their own reasons for visiting, and now readers can easily create a customized filter with a pretty face.

This might not offer the breadth of features provided by Google, Netvibes, or Pageflakes, but it’s more stylish than all three. And it feels faster. As for recreating MyYahoo, that might not be such a bad idea. Yahoo’s own startpage redesign effort (currently in beta) elevates advertising over the user experience, and it seems bloated in comparison.

I used MyYahoo! for 10 years, but since they’ve decided to abandone their strength, I’ve gone looking for replacements. At this point, Google Reader and Popurls.com are my top choices. But I’ll definitely be using My Times to access the NYTimes, which I suspect, is the point.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:29:11 +0000

It’s interesting to see the NY Times trying to stay with the times, ha!

Ultimately though I probably won’t use this service but I do respect the NYT for all of the heavy lifting reporting that they do. I look forward to them making this into something that I would use.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:51:04 +0000

MyYahoo? Shouldn’t this be MyTimes?

Anyway, you make a good point about people who live and breathe the NYT, they’ll definitely find this enjoyable.

By: kent

kent — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:43:33 +0000

zzzzz…big deal…another old media(dying) company trying to reinvent itself (survive) as a new media company by copying new media startups. Please refer to Netscape’s attempt at emulating digg.com

By: wayne lambright

wayne lambright — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:39:26 +0000

I love it, good job to the team at the NY times. I do love reading the NY times, but only about once a month, with my new “My Times” I’m sure to visit more.