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Data visualization of yahoo homepage traffic

51 points by Feanim 15y ago

Qiasfah 15y ago
First innovative thing yahoo has done in years.
- dandelany 15y ago
  I'm guessing you haven't heard of BOSS, YUI, or Yahoo! Pipes. Yahoo still innovates, they just don't seem to do so in a way that's particularly profitable.
  - Qiasfah 15y ago
    No I have not. Problem is, Yahoo's effectiveness is measured in profit.
    - dandelany 15y ago
      If you like. But you didn't say anything about effectiveness, you said they haven't innovated in years, which is patently false.
      - Qiasfah 15y ago
        Fair enough, I suppose what I meant was that I had not seen anything innovative from them in a long time.
- dpitkin 15y ago
  Interesting that it looks outsourced by the Y! marketing department to @periscopic. Still it is a fancy html5 page showing what Yahoo does each day for their advertisers.
Feanim 15y ago
There is also this http://test.visualize.yahoo.com/mail/ http://test.visualize.yahoo.com/mail/
- mc32 15y ago
  That's an interesting link. The email subjectline keywords are intersting. Almost all are commerce related: travel, save, prices, markdowns, store, itunes, department, etc. As if personal email is small minority of their email traffic.
laconian 15y ago
Just 714 article views for OMG! in the last 24h? Hmm, either it's really unpopular, or they forgot to include "thousands" or "millions".
mnot 15y ago
It's nice to see this data becoming public. However, even a trivial browse shows Y!'s weakness -- their aging user base.
- chaz 15y ago
  Their demos look pretty solid to me. https://www.quantcast.com/yahoo.com https://www.quantcast.com/yahoo.com
banjomonster 15y ago
Interesting that this is using jQuery, and doesn't seem to be using YUI at all. You'd think they'd be showing off their own frameworks...
- mwexler 15y ago
  To be fair, it was done by http://www.periscopic.com/ http://www.periscopic.com/ and not Y! internal. Y! probably didn't specify any specific technologies. Perhaps a missed opportunity, but still, cool stuff.
v33ra 15y ago
More than the astonishing data, the UI is so impressive. One of the best interface to combine all the HTML5, CSS3 & JQuery goodness.
- filiwickers 15y ago
  Thanks for the great complement! If you enjoy this, wait until you see the next Yahoo! visualization we are releasing later this year.
pg_bot 15y ago
The animation is very pretty but half of the links bring up broken data stating only 700ish page views with no outbound links to stories. ==================== On a separate note, does anyone else think that yahoo has an identity crisis? Although they have a large web presence, I can't seem to think of one thing they do better than their competition. When I picture yahoo, I think of it as an internet tabloid since most of the main real estate of the page is dedicated to link baited columns. They have search, but no one under the age of 55 uses it. They have made a series of acquisitions but you could argue none of them have really added much to the company. Since 2006 they have tried to be a jack of all trades, and I don't really think that is a good strategy for any company. Yahoo should figure out what they want to be good at, and drop all the other crap they are doing.
- majani 15y ago
  The 'crap' probably brings in a lot of money, so it's not that cut and paste.
- andreer 15y ago
  The broken data is probably because this is a test site, as can be inferred from the hostname (test.visualize.yahoo.com). The main site (visualize.yahoo.com) only has the mail visualization.
  - filiwickers 15y ago
    You are correct. Thanks for clarifying that. We are still working out some data issues.
filiwickers 15y ago
I am part of the team at Periscopic that produced this visualization for Yahoo!. First, thank you everyone for the complements. I will pass them on to our designers and developers. We are still working out some data issues with Yahoo!. This is why some of the stories are showing very few articles in the last 24hrs (they are two week old stories). Please bear with us and Yahoo! as we work out these kinks. This is one in a series of visualizations we are producing for Yahoo!. You can see the two we have released so far here: http://beta.visualize.yahoo.com/ http://beta.visualize.yahoo.com/. We are in the process of creating two more visualizations for Yahoo!. Both of these will also be packed with more UI and HTML/CSS/JS goodness.

51 points by Feanim 15y ago

Qiasfah 15y ago

First innovative thing yahoo has done in years.

dandelany 15y ago
I'm guessing you haven't heard of BOSS, YUI, or Yahoo! Pipes. Yahoo still innovates, they just don't seem to do so in a way that's particularly profitable.
- Qiasfah 15y ago
  No I have not. Problem is, Yahoo's effectiveness is measured in profit.
  - dandelany 15y ago
    If you like. But you didn't say anything about effectiveness, you said they haven't innovated in years, which is patently false.
    - Qiasfah 15y ago
      Fair enough, I suppose what I meant was that I had not seen anything innovative from them in a long time.
dpitkin 15y ago
Interesting that it looks outsourced by the Y! marketing department to @periscopic. Still it is a fancy html5 page showing what Yahoo does each day for their advertisers.

Feanim 15y ago

There is also this http://test.visualize.yahoo.com/mail/ http://test.visualize.yahoo.com/mail/

mc32 15y ago
That's an interesting link. The email subjectline keywords are intersting. Almost all are commerce related: travel, save, prices, markdowns, store, itunes, department, etc. As if personal email is small minority of their email traffic.

laconian 15y ago

Just 714 article views for OMG! in the last 24h? Hmm, either it's really unpopular, or they forgot to include "thousands" or "millions".

mnot 15y ago

It's nice to see this data becoming public. However, even a trivial browse shows Y!'s weakness -- their aging user base.

chaz 15y ago
Their demos look pretty solid to me. https://www.quantcast.com/yahoo.com https://www.quantcast.com/yahoo.com

banjomonster 15y ago

Interesting that this is using jQuery, and doesn't seem to be using YUI at all. You'd think they'd be showing off their own frameworks...

mwexler 15y ago
To be fair, it was done by http://www.periscopic.com/ http://www.periscopic.com/ and not Y! internal. Y! probably didn't specify any specific technologies. Perhaps a missed opportunity, but still, cool stuff.

v33ra 15y ago

More than the astonishing data, the UI is so impressive. One of the best interface to combine all the HTML5, CSS3 & JQuery goodness.

filiwickers 15y ago
Thanks for the great complement! If you enjoy this, wait until you see the next Yahoo! visualization we are releasing later this year.

pg_bot 15y ago

The animation is very pretty but half of the links bring up broken data stating only 700ish page views with no outbound links to stories. ==================== On a separate note, does anyone else think that yahoo has an identity crisis? Although they have a large web presence, I can't seem to think of one thing they do better than their competition. When I picture yahoo, I think of it as an internet tabloid since most of the main real estate of the page is dedicated to link baited columns. They have search, but no one under the age of 55 uses it. They have made a series of acquisitions but you could argue none of them have really added much to the company. Since 2006 they have tried to be a jack of all trades, and I don't really think that is a good strategy for any company. Yahoo should figure out what they want to be good at, and drop all the other crap they are doing.

majani 15y ago
The 'crap' probably brings in a lot of money, so it's not that cut and paste.
andreer 15y ago
The broken data is probably because this is a test site, as can be inferred from the hostname (test.visualize.yahoo.com). The main site (visualize.yahoo.com) only has the mail visualization.
- filiwickers 15y ago
  You are correct. Thanks for clarifying that. We are still working out some data issues.

filiwickers 15y ago

I am part of the team at Periscopic that produced this visualization for Yahoo!. First, thank you everyone for the complements. I will pass them on to our designers and developers. We are still working out some data issues with Yahoo!. This is why some of the stories are showing very few articles in the last 24hrs (they are two week old stories). Please bear with us and Yahoo! as we work out these kinks. This is one in a series of visualizations we are producing for Yahoo!. You can see the two we have released so far here: http://beta.visualize.yahoo.com/ http://beta.visualize.yahoo.com/. We are in the process of creating two more visualizations for Yahoo!. Both of these will also be packed with more UI and HTML/CSS/JS goodness.