MyWeb Product Update
In this new update to MyWeb, we’ve packaged up your favorite features from version 2.0 into a brand new design. We’re hoping you’ll find it simpler to get around and discover great new pages.
Among the new features:
- “Top tags” and “interesting today” sections show what’s hot in the system, and are great places to start if you’re new (or just logged out).
- Search across all public pages in the system, so if you’re looking for the latest on punk rock or knitting, it’s easy to find.
- Export your MyWeb pages to any browser format you’d like, thank you very much!
Perhaps the most significant shift in this release has less to do with any one feature, but is simply the realization that social bookmarking is catching on with people with very diverse passions and interests. While the list of popular tags still has entries like “CSS” and “XML”, the more Joshua, Stephen and I look through the data, the more it?s clear that these bookmarks are for Buddhists, and ambient music fans, and breakdancers. If you?re not any of these, give it a shot anyway? :-);
Head on over to the MyWeb blog for some tips on how to get the most from these new features.
Tom Chi
Product Lead
This looks good, but one question for you. What is the maxium number of pages you can save to this service? I read somewhere that you could only save 75 pags. If this is the case I will stick with onfolio to save it to the desktop
You can save up to 5,000 pages in MyWeb.
gailene
Actually there is a sneaky way to save up to 9000 pages, but we’ll tell you when you get there. :)
I think I’ve been using the service since a year now, and I saved around 380 pages. At this rate I have nothing to worry about for a cool 13 years, I am sure by then you’d be offering something better.
BTW, frankly I do not like that orange look much. You changed a few things, which is annowying. Maybe I was used to the old interface and will start liking the new one when I get used to it.
Another thing, consider having one “save to my web” button look. The button in the yahoo toolbar is the best one at present, but you introduced a blue down arrow button long ago and now it is orange!!
An,
The Save to My Web link will be standardized on this orange button moving forward, so hopefully that will help clear up any visual confusion we’ve introduced.
What specifically are some of the changes that you find annoying? Any specific feedback you can offer would be a big help. And hopefully the new look will start to feel more comfortable soon!
How was the light Golden Yellow color decided on …
This appears to deviate from Yahoo’s traditional Color Themes
It is an interesting SUNNY motif
Can’t say what specifically, but I was used to finding stuff a certain way. Top of my head, I could not locate my “Tag Cloud” immediately (in fact when I wrote the previous comment I thought, it was gone).
“Top tags” (a Tag Wisp) is *random*, hence not very useful (except for accidental rediscovery) wait, it is not even clickable. Ditto for tag cloudlet under “Find My Favourites Tags”. I still can not find my search history.
Lot of cosmetic change, and I understand Orange means new, vibrant, but the new design looks half hearted vibrant.
Next to bookmarked\saved pages in the “My Bookmarks” tab is “number of saves”. Which I think means how many people have saved that tag, apart from me. Now I thought at first that clicking on it will show who else has saved it, then I could find people with similar interests and explore what else have they saved. But the first few “number of saves” I clicked did not have any savers. My guess is that people who bookmarked those pages did not make it public. In that case there should be a message of some sorts “no public savers”. besides, how am I supposed to know I can use that link to “edit”, “email” or “im” the bookmark.
Any way, I am getting used to it and I think have found one or two features I did not know about (or are new) :)
Yahoo answers is green, so is yahoo tech (today at least). Websites they have bought maintain there own colour schemes (podcasts, flickr). So they have more than purple, blue, red and yellow.
What confuses me though is that most of there websites have that red Y! favicon. I can not tell which is which by looking at the icon alone. I wish they had a different favicon for all the services.
Nice work Nathan and Tom!
Wendy — Thanks!
An — Your tags are in the left-hand column of the “My Bookmarks” page under the heading “Find My Favorite Tags.” The tag cloud shows your 20 most-used tags, and then you can use the search box to manually type in any other tag you have. You can also click the “view more” link below the tag to view all your tags in a format similar to what we had on the last version of My Web.
Your Search History is located under the “Tools” heading in the left-hand nav on the “My Bookmarks” page as well.
Hope that helps!
Nathan – I am getting used to the new myweb. Thanks for pointing out where the search history is (A simple text search in the page should have found it for me). I was wrong about certain things – the tag wisp is clickable and the tag cloudlet is not random (I like the full tag cloud though).
The feature that I use most on MyWeb is the Saving pop-up window (followed not-so-closely by emailing saved pages). You could do whatever change with the rest of MyWeb as long as saving and searching are improved. Thanks for one improvement in the saving window. Now you can press tab inside the text box where you enter “Tags” and move out of it. It was not possible earlier and I had to use the mouse.
A few suggestions though, can you use the meta tags to get information from the webpage
to fill in the note? Mostly I leave the note empty but I would like it if you used the page description as note if nothing is specified.
In the previous version of MyWeb 2.0, it I had used a note on a page, the note was displayed in “bold” in the (equivalent of) “My Bookmarks” page. In this new version, it is not displayed with any emphasis or difference. I would like it if a certain distinction was made from rest of the formating.
When one enters tags for a page, some suggestions based on what you are typing are shown. It’ll be nice if the same was done for the search box.
Finally, like I have mentioned before. I’d like it if you changed the favicon for this service from the Red Y! to (how about) the new yellow “save it to MyWeb” icon. When I have lots of tabs open I can not differentiate between My Yahoo and My web because the tab is only displaying “Y! My…”
An — the ability to tab out of the Suggested Tags field was one of my own little pet peeves as well.
As for the notes field, we on the team have debated the relative merits/detriments to auto-filling the notes and tags field (some people like it, some REALLY hate it!). But we’ve got some ideas that might be a good compromise for those who like it. It probably won’t happen for a few months, but it’s on the list of things we’d like to tackle.