The launch of a handy dandy new Yahoo homepage may not be too far off now. A member of the team responsible for its redesign has posted an update, and it sounds like all sorts of progress has been made. Bucket testing is underway, too.
AOL Launches New Homepage
AOL has introduced a new homepage that allows users to access social networks directly from the site.Users are now able to post status updates to a number of social networks at once along with keeping track of profile activity, friend requests, status updates and mail alerts from Bebo, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
LinkedIN Gets New Homepage And Features
Social networking site for professionals, LinkedIN has launched a new homepage, which includes a "Status" feature that allows users to share their activities with those in their network.
YouTube To Test Personalized Homepage
YouTube said it is testing a new experimental personalized homepage with a small group of users it has selected at random.Don’t worry if you are not part of the group testing the new homepage, YouTube says it will give access to everyone in the near future. The experimental homepage will still have "Featured" and "Most Popular" videos but will add personalized recommendations, videos from subscriptions and a way to see what videos your friends are uploading and rating.
ISP Hijacks Google Homepage
Controversy is brewing over a Canadian ISP inserting customer messages at the top Google’s homepage, brought to you by Yahoo.
MSNBC Adopts Adaptable Homepage
A proper news site is mostly about function; people want information, not artwork. But appearances play a major role in a site’s appeal and accessibility, and an interesting approach to an MSNBC redesign aims to take all these things into account.
Google Homepage Loses Color In San Francisco
On Saturday night, parts of San Francisco went dark, and it was to some degree Google’s fault. Google deserves credit, and not blame, for this occurrence, though, since it was part of an energy-saving initiative.
Google Book Search Homepage Redesign
The Google Book search homepage just received a redesign (some of you were able to spot this prototype before, but it just went live for all). It now looks more like book shelf than straight-forward search engine; instead of the typical Google logo + input box, you’ll be seeing a couple of pre-selected covers as images, making for a more explorative approach.
How Important is the Homepage?
Seth Godin, on his blog, wrote "Do you really need a home page? Does the web respect it?".
Here is what he wrote:
Human beings don’t have home pages. People make judgments about you in a thousand different ways. By what they hear from others, by the way they experience you, and on and on. Companies may have a website, but they don’t have a home page in terms of the way people experience them.
Google Personalized Homepage Gets A Name: iGoogle
Google has finally given its personalized homepage a name, calling it what many people had suspected the name was all along: iGoogle. Google had a whole Personalization Workshop in Mountain View yesterday, and Google Blogoscoped had someone on the scene for the whole thing.
Some details: