Yahoo! Trix Are For…
| Friday, November 17th, 2006 | --Sean |
Yahooligans, the Yahoo! property for kids, has been getting pretty old (ironically). There isn't really any significant change between two months ago and four years ago, and even going as far back as eight years reveals a strikingly similar page. Sure, we were happy with that back in my day, back when we had to walk two miles through the snow to use our 28.8kbps modems, but kids these days are all about Web 2.0 and interactivity and tag clouds. Those whippersnappers and their AJAX...
So, in order to fit in with this younger crowd, Yahooligans has received a facelift!* Get in touch with your inner child at the new Yahoo! Kids. More updates will be rolling out over the next few months, but for now you can at least enjoy the cute site design.
* There's a social commentary if I've ever seen one.
November 17th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
And it’s beta ;_;
November 17th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
:) The proliferation of the Beta tag over every single new Web product that’s released these days kind of annoys me, too, but I don’t necessarily think that it’s a bad thing if it’s managed correctly. The intent is to release an unfinished product to a large audience in order to gather better feedback and iteratively improve, right? The Yahoo! Kids site does solicit feedback at the end of their little intro by Earl, and they’re planning on pushing out more updates within the next few months, so it looks like the right spirit is there. The main thing I’d complain about in this case is that they’ve taken down the original Yahooligans site, so there’s no option for kids to opt out of this Beta.
Hopefully that’s on topic; I was just guessing at where you were going with the “beta ;_;” comment. :P