October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Hacks 23–50: Introduction
In addition to pointing people to documents and resources across the Web through Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! has become a destination itself. By gathering information from many sources under a single roof, Yahoo! has made following the financial markets [Hack #23] , the daily news [Hack #33] , or even the products available online [Hack #47] a breeze.
Yahoo! also allows you to personalize the information you find at the sites so the information is more meaningful to you. This means you can gather and track your favorite news sources together at My Yahoo! [Hack #34] or even visualize your personal music collection [Hack #48] in a new way. And once your personal preferences are stored at Yahoo!, they’re accessible from any computer connected to the Internet. This is especially useful for storing bookmarks [Hack #28] or keeping tabs on movies you’d like to see [Hack #43] .
Yahoo! also has several methods of routing your personalized information to you when and where you need it. Yahoo! Alerts [Hack #50] can send updated information to you via email, instant messenger, or cell phone. And Yahoo! Mobile [Hack #49] can give you access to your settings on a mobile device when you’re out and about.
The hacks in this chapter are about personalizing and working with the data you’ll find across Yahoo! properties. The hacks here represent only a portion of Yahoo! Here are some additional Yahoo! properties that didn’t make it into the book: ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.