Collect Them All
| Thursday, September 14th, 2006 | --jr |
So, Yahoo! Local rolled out a new feature called "Collections". Well, actually, there's two.
Rather than talk about them, here's a snapshot that shows what they are:
That My Local button is the hardest to explain, but also the coolest:
It's cool because that was stuff that was on the page already, it was just lurking elsewhere on the page and tended to get lost in the shuffle. Putting it there gets it somewhere easy to find and makes it more obvious (plus, if you don't want to see that stuff, you don't have to.
The other features are nice, but I've got a few problems with them. The pictures don't go to Flickr, which means that they're hard to find. Also, the "collections" idea is nice, but unlike Y!Trip Planner, I can't add my own notes about something. (e.g. "Call these guys to get a quote" or "Tom, said the nigiri here is pretty good. Should bring the wife.")
Still, it's the very first version, and like the first version of a lot of stuff, there's lots of room to improve.
February 15th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
[...] Here at Yahoo!, we have restaurant lists, movie lists, lists of tourist spots, Listerine™ for those hot after-work dates, you name it. If anything is listable, we want our users to list it so we can then turn those lists around for enormous profit AND to provide a useful service to the rest of the Internet (good recovery, Sean!). So why not the most ubiquitous list of them all — the shopping list? Oh, we’ve got those (and yes, we’ve mentioned them in passing in an earlier post). We’ve got a whole sphere full of ‘em. [...]