You may have seen the headlines that we’re launching an update to the wildly popular sidebar. Our press release is in the wild but I’d like to review our announcements on this blog from a user’s perspective.
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The shopping widget is my favorite new feature. Many users don’t know this but Yoono started as a recommendation tool that would recommend websites similar to the one you’re currently browsing. At this time, Yoono is offering millions of recommendations to our users every day. The recommendations really make the web a lot more fun. My favorite tech forum is Sharky Forums and the recommendation tool gave me two other sites that are similar. That’s really cool! The technology behind the recommendation engine is being applied to our new shopping widget. It’s the easiest and most convenient way to save money when you’re shopping and it’s totally unobtrusive. When I am browsing Canon SLRs on Amazon, the shopping widget is there to show me that the same camera is available with a $100 off coupon at Buy.com. It’s incredibly easy to use and will be a perfect compliment to the holiday shopping season. Oh and we also added some “social shopping” features that enable you to share that link wit friends and family so making a Christmas shopping list for Mom is going to be really easy.
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The feature I use the most is the friends widget. It enables me to easily stay connected with everyone across a multitude of social networks and I never have to browse all over the place to always stay in touch. Of course, we needed to work on the usability and features of this and I’m incredibly excited to announce some big changes. First of all, we added MySpace and imeem to the friends widget. Then we made Facebook integration so much better. Finally, we simplified the interface, built in an awesome filtering tool so you can see updates from a specific friend and added some status lights that show which networks you’re connected to. Yoono is now the hub of your social lifestyle. You can also chat with friends via AIM, MSN, Y! and GTalk but that feature was already there.
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Another widget that I always have open is the music widget. It saw some improvements as well. We already had the music widget configured to connect with Last.FM and stream music but now you can stream music from imeem as well. The imeem widget is a fantastic extension of the music service and brings it to your browser whether you’re on the site or not.
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One final announcement that really should have its own blog post is that we’re releasing a version of our sidebar for Internet Explorer. Microsoft’s web browser still has the majority market share and we want those users to feel connected as well. Yoono has put a lot of muscle behind the development and created a version that works beautifully in IE. I know a lot of the readers of this blog use Firefox but there are so many millions of users that want to use Yoono and simply can’t because they’re in IE. This update is going to expand our market and help everyone be more social and we’re so happy to have it out the door.
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I’d be happy to demo this for you and we can chat for an over the web demo. My email is ajackson@yoono.com and I’m @yoono on Twitter
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