Yahoo Makes Strides In Entertainment Search
March 12, 2010
If Yahoo has its way, it'll soon be the place to go for information about movies, TV shows, and the celebrities who star in them. Yahoo announced several upgrades to its search engine this morning, and they're all meant to make entertainment-related queries turn up much better results.
A Yahoo representative told WebProNews, "Today Yahoo! Search is unveiling new ways for people to explore information on their favorite celebs and TV shows by providing the most comprehensive and up to the moment entertainment news and content. With Yahoo! Search's celebrity shortcuts, people can see news, photos, movies and even the celebrity's official tweets right on the search results page."
What's more, "Yahoo! is also introducing a TV shortcut so people can search for their favorite TV shows and see videos, episode lists, schedules and ratings from Yahoo! TV." And "we are launching new celebrity-related suggestions on the left-side of the Yahoo! Search results page for entertainment queries, with links to results for related people, movies, etc."
You can see an example of how this all comes together below. The results page packs in a whole lot of information, but still manages to not look overly cluttered or messy.
Yahoo appears to have leapfrogged well ahead of Google and Bing with these upgrades.
Actor Corey Haim Reported Dead
March 10, 2010
Actor Corey Haim, best known for roles in movies like the Lost Boys, License to Drive, and many others (a number of which also featured Corey Feldman), has reportedly been found dead of an apparent drug overdose.
>>> You can leave your condolences on FamousDead.com.
The LA Times reports:
The Los Angeles Police Department said Haim, 38, was pronounced dead after 3 a.m. at a Burbank hospital. He had been living in the San Fernando Valley.
Details of his death were not immediately available. The L.A. coroner's office was investigating. A police spokesman said more details would be available later.
Haim connected with his fans through social media, specifically a MySpace page, which currently has 4,253 friends.
The "about me" section reads:
The real Corey Haimster here! I asked Jenny J to set this up for me, so here it is. I'll be checking in to read all your shout outs & when I get the time, I'll leave a message for you all. Thanks for hitting my MySpace page!
Love & peace out,
Corey
"Actor Corey Haim" and "Lost Boys" are currently both trending topics on Twitter.
Haim's latest movie American Sunset premiered in Las Vegas in January. He had also been seen in the realty TV show The Two Coreys with Feldman. More on Haim here.
Actor Corey Haim Reported Dead
March 10, 2010
Actor Corey Haim, best known for roles in movies like the Lost Boys, License to Drive, and many others (a number of which also featured Corey Feldman), has reportedly been found dead of an apparent drug overdose.
>>> You can leave your condolences on FamousDead.com.
The LA Times reports:
The Los Angeles Police Department said Haim, 38, was pronounced dead after 3 a.m. at a Burbank hospital. He had been living in the San Fernando Valley.
Details of his death were not immediately available. The L.A. coroner's office was investigating. A police spokesman said more details would be available later.
Haim connected with his fans through social media, specifically a MySpace page, which currently has 4,253 friends.
The "about me" section reads:
The real Corey Haimster here! I asked Jenny J to set this up for me, so here it is. I'll be checking in to read all your shout outs & when I get the time, I'll leave a message for you all. Thanks for hitting my MySpace page!
Love & peace out,
Corey
"Actor Corey Haim" and "Lost Boys" are currently both trending topics on Twitter.
Haim's latest movie American Sunset premiered in Las Vegas in January. He had also been seen in the realty TV show The Two Coreys with Feldman. More on Haim here.
Facebook Expands Preferred Developer Program
March 9, 2010
Four months ago, Facebook launched something called the Preferred Developer Consultant Program in an effort to point companies and celebrities towards the best developers. Now, the program's taking an important leap forward as Facebook's more than tripled the number of recommended developers.
Facebook started things off with just 14 developers, which seemed like an interesting choice. Those dozen or so developers couldn't possibly design too many Facebook pages and/or apps, after all, so was demand negligible? Were great developers extremely rare? Or did Facebook just feel like causing a crazy bidding war for people's services?
Today, the social network granted 35 additional developers "preferred" status, making the situation look somewhat manageable.
Kristin Thayer, a member of the Facebook Developer Network team, also explained that the global community's needs have been taken into consideration. She wrote on the Facebook Developer Blog, "Over half of the new Preferred Developer Consultants have international operations and have already built campaigns, community portals, and other social applications in countries like Israel, Lithuania, and Czech Republic."
Thayer added, as well, "If you or your company builds high quality Facebook Connect implementations, Facebook applications, and/or Facebook Pages, and is interested in being included as a developer consultant in this program, please visit the Developer FAQ to learn more about submitting your company for consideration."
