Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day

Oh Groups, how you've longed for love...

Well, turns out you're finally getting some. (wait, no, that sounds wrong.)

Groups is in the midst of a huge redo. A lot of it you won't see, but they're moving from a very old and VERY crufty platform to a much lighter, more modern system. Enough that it's going to free up quite a bit of CPU and memory on the servers. So instead of keeping those machines from whiling the days paying global thermonuclear war tic-tac-toe against each other, they've added a slew of new features that you will see. Things like customizable pages, better photo integration, a better layout, conversations and other things to make groups a bit easier to deal with. It's still very much in beta, and there are some things they're still rolling out (calendar, polls, database, & scheduled messages) so if your group absolutely can't exist without those, hold off on hunting down an invite.

Still, nice to see the dust get blown off a powerhouse and something a bit more than just a fresh coat of paint.

Sorry about not getting this out earlier! I couldn't access ycoolthing.com on Friday. I had also had a longer, funnier post written up, but the draft didn't save. Actually, I should use that excuse every time that I write a short, boring post.

There's really nothing that makes my day like being decked out from head to toe in Yahoo! gear. From my official Yahoo! visor to my official Yahoo! socks, I can proclaim to the world that I work at a company that's not just a company -- it's also an interjection (and a punctuated one at that). Now you can also get that feeling (of proclaiming, not of working here, unless you have a resume handy that you'd like to send over) by visiting the recently launched Yahoo! Company Store. Sure, people might have suspected that you were a "crude or brutish person" already, but you might as well get a chino twill hat to remove all doubt.