My Yahoo! Blog

Lots of modules? No problem!

It’s time to acknowledge my problem: I’m an information junky. Whether it’s scanning news headlines or mainlining my 99 favorite blogs, I am all over the Internet, all the time. It’s not healthy.

For the sake of my own sanity, I’ve been craving a way to keep all these sites in one place, but organized into different categories. This way, I could find what I need, when I wanted, without heavy searching or bookmarking.

I took a bold step towards that goal when I started using multiple pages on My Yahoo!. Now, I can keep all of my everyday content on the “My Front Page,” and I can categorize my favorite blogs in the extra pages (yes, like the newspaper!).

To add another page to your My Yahoo!, click on the “Add Page” button in the navigation bar just below the Search box.

You can personalize your new page too…

* Add modules and change the color and layout of your page
* Move modules between pages by dragging and dropping them onto the page name
* Rename your new page at any time by clicking on the page name

Adding another page – or even several pages – is such a quick and simple way to keep all your content organized. And if you’re a media obsessive like me, that can mean the difference between a data death spiral and information Nirvana. Try it out!

–Eric
My Yahoo! Sr. Product Manager

Improved: Inside My Yahoo!.

Ever get tired of having the same old content sources on your page, day after day? Consider adding Inside My Yahoo!, which brings you a daily content suggestion. Our editors comb through the millions of feeds (so you don’t have to). Oh, and occasionally we’ll add tips and updates from the product team, just to keep you in the know.

What’s add RSS by URL?

Here’s a tip for those of you not familiar with RSS and feeds. RSS is a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web that is easily read through a reader like My Yahoo!. So next time you happen upon a site that you might like to check on occasion, give it a try.

Add an RSS feed from the site to your page:
• Follow the instructions on the site to locate the feed URL (look for the RSS icon) and copy it.
• In My Yahoo!, go to Personalize this page > Content: Add RSS Feed > Paste the URL and click Add.

The content will be added to the top left of your page.

Hello, I’m your content wrangler.

There’s a great big world of content out there—how do you find the best stuff for your page? One option is to browse our content directory. As your editor, I roam the Internet looking for the best content available across all kinds of subjects. When I find feeds from publishers who are reliable authorities on a topic or who have something unique to say on the subject, I round them up into categories where I hope they’ll be easy for you to find.

- Like to cook? Check out the Lifestyles category and dig into the Food & Drink feeds.
- Follow tech trends? Pick your specialty from Technology.

My goal is to supply you with feeds that bring you frequent, relevant, compelling content on the topics that interest you most.

Our content directory has undergone many evolutions during the years I’ve been part of the My Yahoo! team. We’re trying to keep it easy to use, yet comprehensive—a tough balance to strike. Tell me what you think. And if you don’t find what you need, remember, the directory is a fraction of all the content available for your page. Use the content search box to explore the millions of available feeds.

I’ll be back to talk about more of the things a My Yahoo! editor spends her time doing. But for now, it’s back to the wild, wild Web.

Giddyup,

Rebecca
My Yahoo! Editor

Stay right there.

Since My Yahoo! is your home on the Web, we figured we should make it easier for you to get comfy. So we set out to give you better ways to customize your page. Around here, we call it the inline extravaganza. That’s how we refer to letting you do more on your page itself, or inline.

No more navigating off your page to add content, change your layout, modify your settings or see what your page would look like in a new color. Now, all that is possible right from your page.

But we didn’t think that was quite enough. So we added a reader option that lets you view articles without leaving your page. Then we created module-specific controls (like how many items you want displayed in a module). Oh, and we improved the article previews (the little snippets that show up when you mouse over a headline) too.

We hope you like what we’ve done with the place.

The My Yahoo! Team