Internet search giant Yahoo! has taken the plunge and introduced a sickle-sweet combination of advertising and advice under the guise of a new technology section on its famed portal.
The 19-strong sections cover many of today's hot products and technologies, including a Games section, MP3 players and TVs. The main purpose of the advice section is to simplify the new technology for non-tech heads but Yahoo! hope to appeal to experts and novices alike.
Yahoo! Tech's general manager, Patrick Houston boldly said: "We want to free people from the tyranny of geekspeak."
Ex-ABC and CNN tech girl Becky Worley will host a weekly video segment called "Hook me up" where users can pitch a video idea for the site to cover. Also present are advisors geared towards a particular stereotype, e.g. The Mom, The Working Guy - through which users can relate and make decisions.
The functional and attractive new section is more than a money-making expedition, think of it as a CNET-lite. It seems that Yahoo! have finally bridged a gap in their portal, and it will be interesting to see what the website will have to cover next in order to keep up with rivals Google and MSN.
View: Yahoo! Tech
The 19-strong sections cover many of today's hot products and technologies, including a Games section, MP3 players and TVs. The main purpose of the advice section is to simplify the new technology for non-tech heads but Yahoo! hope to appeal to experts and novices alike.
Yahoo! Tech's general manager, Patrick Houston boldly said: "We want to free people from the tyranny of geekspeak."
Ex-ABC and CNN tech girl Becky Worley will host a weekly video segment called "Hook me up" where users can pitch a video idea for the site to cover. Also present are advisors geared towards a particular stereotype, e.g. The Mom, The Working Guy - through which users can relate and make decisions.
The functional and attractive new section is more than a money-making expedition, think of it as a CNET-lite. It seems that Yahoo! have finally bridged a gap in their portal, and it will be interesting to see what the website will have to cover next in order to keep up with rivals Google and MSN.
View: Yahoo! Tech
I'm a little worried about the video thing though, to me...
"Also present are advisors geared towards a particular stereotype, e.g. The Mom, The Working Guy - through which users can relate and make decisions.
is just another way to say
"We want to make you look like you know what your doing when all you really did was watch something on TV and copied what they did"
Hopefully it will get my parents off my back though
Just say no to corporate webmaster hemorrhages like these. *shakes head*
So, another site that caters to the clueless then...
However I do find it rather ironic how a website based for the 'clueless' confusses me about its layout. I suppose another way to use flash to face rape your eyes and bandwidth.
If it's true the it's really worthy, people don't want to heard :megabytes, gigabytes o any bytes, opensource, microsoft, configure, install firefox even when the current navigator that the people use works, xml, css, syndication, and such.
Who want the common people :see email, chat, play some single game, read some news (specially hollywood stuffs and gossip),buy online some products, obtain some information and nothing more.
That's exactly what Neowin needs! A video tech girl!
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