{"id":96,"date":"2006-12-03T23:01:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laaker.com\/cms\/?p=96"},"modified":"2007-11-13T00:20:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T08:20:24","slug":"yahoo-personalization-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/portfolio\/2006\/yahoo-personalization-2","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Personalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Universal Location Manager<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/laaker.com\/images\/micah\/portfolio\/y-ulm-fp3.gif\" class=\"portImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"portImageCaption\">Default location pre-populates content on new home page<\/div>\n<p>Users of the new Yahoo! home page are now able to set a network-wide Default location on their computer, thus allowing any location field on the network (including the three on the home page) to pre-populate with their chosen locale. Users can also engage a redesigned, AJAX-powered drop-down widget next to each location field to access recent and saved locations, as well as manage and save their preferred locations&#8230; all in context of the content they are trying to modify.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Activity<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/laaker.com\/images\/micah\/portfolio\/y-food-recents.gif\" class=\"portImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"portImageCaption\">Recent Activity module for Yahoo! Food<\/div>\n<p>After user testing a number of solutions on <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Tech<\/a>, I worked with the Yahoo! Media Group to implement a scalable framework for multi-subject, recently-viewed items for the newly-released <a href=\"http:\/\/food.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Food<\/a>. The Recent Activity module (which sits on any content  page in the right &#8220;My&#8221; bar) allows users to quickly return to past-seen pages and will soon accommodate the saving of favorite items for viewing later (or on different devices).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media tools<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/laaker.com\/images\/micah\/portfolio\/y-quotes.gif\" class=\"portImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"portImageCaption\">Content action tools inline on <a href=\"http:\/\/education.yahoo.com\/reference\/quotations\/quote\/19263;_ylt=Ar8mCeCkoV7vQ8RmQsWCoLJYCc0F\">Yahoo! Education quotation pages<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Working closely with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattmcalister.com\/\">Matt McAlister<\/a>, I helped architect, design, and code the first phase of a multi-prong offensive structured to empower publishers with the tools to quickly allow the sharing, saving, and subscribing of their content by their users. <\/p>\n<p>The Yahoo! Publisher Network currently hosts a page <a href=\"http:\/\/publisher.yahoo.com\/socialmediatools\">showing anyone how to add and modify these tools to accommodate multiple publisher needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syndicated Podcast ratings badge<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/laaker.com\/images\/micah\/portfolio\/y-rnr-badge.gif\" class=\"portImageThin\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"portImageCaption\">Syndicated podcast badge<\/div>\n<p>To coincide with the launch of the new <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Podcasts<\/a>, I developed an extensible badge framework which allowed publishers to showcase Yahoo! users&#8217; collective rating of their podcast series, as well as a mechanism to encourage viewers to rate the series within the badge itself. Publishers can <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.yahoo.com\/publish\/ratings\">configure the layout and appearance of their badge<\/a> using an online tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Location Manager Default location pre-populates content on new home page Users of the new Yahoo! home page are now able to set a network-wide Default location on their computer, thus allowing any location field on the network (including the three on the home page) to pre-populate with their chosen locale. Users can also engage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65,61,60,62,63,64,21],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio","tag-65","tag-location","tag-personalization","tag-recent-activity","tag-social-media","tag-widget","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}