Moving Forward
Happy February, everyone!
Five months ago, you were introduced to your new profile on Yahoo!, and since the launch, thousands of you have used this blog as a great channel for communicating your interests and frustrations with the new profiles product. We’re so grateful for your open and honest feedback and are using this feedback to [...]
Share Updates from other Sites on your Yahoo! Profile
Yahoo! is delivering another milestone on our promise to become more open and social. Beginning today, you can share your activities from other sites on your Yahoo! Profile and across the Yahoo Network. We’ve added a new feature to Yahoo! Updates that lets you share public activities from more than 20 sites, such as a [...]
Yahoo’s plan to be more “Open and Social”
By now, you’ve probably heard about Yahoo!’s Open Strategy, but for most of you, this remains a fairly abstract concept that translates to a new look for your profile on Yahoo!.
Several of you have emailed or commented asking for an explanation of “Open and Social”-so here’s a quick top-line of Yahoo!’s Open Strategy:
Changing what’s [...]
Using the Guestbook
On each of your profiles you may have noticed the “Guestbook” feature. The Guestbook allows your connections (or, if you wish, anyone who comes across your profile) to leave you a message, much like a virtual white-board or answering machine.
For those of you who have tinkered with the Guestbook feature you might have noticed that [...]
Managing your updates
We know that each of you have different needs in respect to what information you want to share with others, and what you’d like to keep private. With the recent introduction of updates within profiles, many of you had questions about how to change who-sees-what-information, and, the easiest way to make some things public, [...]
Update for broadband users
UPDATE: If you’re a broadband user and are still having trouble adding or deleting aliases please contact Customer Care directly (Yahoo! Customer Care can be reached using this link: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/profiles/general.html) to report your issue as the http://manage.members.yahoo.com link is no longer active.
(NOTE, as of April 1, 2009, the http://manage.members.yahoo.com pages are no longer accessible/available, making [...]
“Buzz Up” your profile!
While you’ve been polishing your profile you might have noticed a section called “Updates.” Here, you can check out what your connections are up to-including who they’re connecting to, what their latest status message is, and, stories they’ve “buzzed up” or commented on recently. Now, you can also see what your friends are up to [...]
Tutorial: Creating and deleting an alias
As promised, below you’ll find a tutorial walking you through the steps to creating and deleting aliases. This is done through the “Account Info” link within profiles.
UPDATE: If you are logged in using a broadband Yahoo! account (@sbcglobal.net, @att.net, etc.) please be sure to follow the steps outlined on the “Update for Broadband Users” post [...]
Tutorial: Linking your aliases
For those of you with questions about linking your aliases, or just wanted a quick step-by-step guide on how to link/merge/bind your aliases, you’re in luck
Below you’ll find a quick video tutorial on how to link your alias IDs to your primary Yahoo! profile. This tutorial also shows you how to set your profile to [...]
Recent updates to the profiles service
Thanks for all your feedback and comments. The team has been working hard over the past week and we are excited to share with you a few changes we’ve made to improve your profiles experience based on your input.
We understand that some of you miss the old profile; however, Yahoo! is committed to build upon [...]
