Keeping up-to-date with the new homepage
I’m sure it’s happened to you before: you’re reading the homepage of Yahoo! and come across a great story, link, or have an epiphany that you’d love to share with the people you know. In the past, you had to log into your email and send a message to your friends and family, or, go [...]
Questions and answers about the age verification process
UPDATE 7/28/09: Based largely off of the community’s response to this feature, we will be releasing a “patch” for this issue. This patch, which will be available on or around August 18th, 2009, will hide your age in your profile during the 35-day verification period.
Prior to August 17th, if you wish to have your [...]
Editing your age in your profile
UPDATE 7/28/09: Based largely off of the community’s response to this feature, we will be releasing a “patch” for this issue. This patch, which will be available on or around August 18th, 2009, will hide your age in your profile during the 35-day verification period.
Prior to August 17th, if you wish to have your [...]
It’s now easier to share more with your connections!
The next time you check out your profile on Yahoo!, you might notice that we’ve added a new “Share More” module within your profile. This module (which is just like the “Share More” page) allows you to enter your username into the wizard and automatically scans the net for matching identities on other popular sites [...]
How to: blog on your new profile
Based on the feedback we received from users like you we recently introduced a new blogging module into your profile on Yahoo!.
By now, some of you may have taken the time to explore this new feature, but if you haven’t here’s a quick walk-through of the new blogging tool’s features.
Getting started
Once you’ve set up your [...]
Updates and Yahoo! Groups
Since the launch of profiles in October 2008, we’ve been gradually introducing new properties to the world of Updates. Last night, this feature was introduced into the Yahoo! Groups family, enabling you to share Photo updates into your Updates feed on http://profiles.yahoo.com. (In the future, Groups Updates will also include Group Messages, but this feature [...]
The latest addition to the Updates family: Answers
We’re happy to announce another addition to the Updates family: Yahoo! Answers. Now, you can easily share your Yahoo! Answers activity with your connections-keeping your contacts up to date on the topics that interest you most.
Like most Yahoo! properties, Answers allows you to control your settings from both the property level (http://answers.yahoo.com) and the profile [...]
Feedback Needed: Third Party Sites
Back in January we posted a message letting you know that you can now share updates from other sites on your Yahoo! Profile and across the Yahoo! network. Many of you mentioned that there were several services missing from the list, so here’s your chance to share what sites you’d like to see, and to [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
