Update: Your profile on Yahoo! Answers
Following last week’s announcement (both here and on the Answers blog), the transition to the new Yahoo! Profiles is now taking place on Answers. If you’re a regular user of Yahoo! Answers you’ll start to notice a change in your profile options.
From now on, instead of importing your image display from Yahoo! 360, Answers will [...]
Changes to your profile on Yahoo! Answers
Attention Yahoo! Answers users: in the coming weeks, you might notice a change in the way in which your profile image is displayed within Yahoo! Answers.
Currently, the image that displays for each user in Answers is brought in from your 360 profile. In the coming weeks, Answers will start using profiles to display your image [...]
Profiles Updates: Member Since and Flickr Integration
We’re happy to announce that the profiles team has been hard at work and has pushed out a new release, which includes a few great features many of you have been asking for. Though much of this release includes a lot of “backend” functionality that you all won’t see the release did include: Flickr integration [...]
Feedback Needed: Member Search
When we asked you all to put together a list of your priorities for Profiles, many of you included the member search feature in your list. Some of you elaborated on what specifically you’d like to see in terms of search, but others just mentioned that you’d just like to be able to find other [...]
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 [...]
