My Web
Yahoo has its own social bookmarking site called My Web. You can use Yahoo My Web to keep your bookmarks organized, share them with other users and friend on Yahoo, and find out what other people are checking out.
You can download a Yahoo toolbar to use whenever you are online. Or, you can use bookmarklets with your regular web browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer. This makes it easy to click on the button and save the link to your Yahoo My Web account.
With Yahoo My Web you can export or import bookmarks easily. It recognizes bookmarks from lots of different sources, like your regular browser or other social bookmarking sites like de.lici.ous.
Yahoo gives you your own page complete with a blog. It’s called a My Web Badge and you can customize its features to suit your needs.
If you have a Yahoo e-mail account you are already signed up to use Yahoo My Web. You just have to go through a quick set-up.
Yahoo is one of the most popular search engines, so it’s good to have links saved there. It could be a good tool to help getting the word out about your product or service. Yahoo My Web allows you to search for the most popular tags. This could be a good marketing research tool.
Yahoo My Web likes all kinds of sites. They have tech news and business sites, but there is much more. It’s impossible to pin down exactly what’s most popular; they seem to like everything.
Some of the most popular sites today include an article on Wal-mart, layouts for Myspace, how to get more out of Broadband, diet secrets for a better nights’ sleep, a Bible site, coupons, a grammar website, and lots more.
Yahoo lets you submit just about anything, but they will remove anything they consider spam from the system. As long as what is submitted is legal, it’s alright. Users can set filters to get rid of objectionable material, but Yahoo doesn’t take any responsibility for what’s submitted.
Yahoo My Web is always working on new features. You can do a tag search for a subject that you’re interested in and it will not only give you a list of links, but also a list of users who have used those tags. This helps you find people that have similar interests. Using this feature, you can contact other users and network.
One of the best things about Yahoo My Web is that they are always interested in hearing your ideas. If you have an idea to improve the system, you can contact administrators, and they try their best to change the system to suit users’ needs.
