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Yahoo Adds Third-Party App Access to Mail, My Yahoo

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 5, 2009 - 10:50am.
Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) on Friday added new features to its online services like Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo, Yahoo Connected TV and Zimbra that let users access third-party applications such as YouTube, PayPal, Picnik, Mint.com and WordPress. The YouTube integration will allow owners of Internet-enabled TVs from Samsung and LG to access YouTube videos through the Yahoo Connected TV service.

Analysis: Five Web 2.0 Sites That Don't Forget About Usability

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on September 4, 2007 - 3:40am.

Several years ago I wrote a two hundred page thesis for a Masters program all about user interfaces.  The premise was that simplicity and usability were guiding principles to making any online site successful (seems obvious, I know, but it didn't use to be).  Since the late nineties, the importance of usability had slowly been getting more and more important.