While there are already many alternatives of using Yahoo Messenger on the iPhone, but an official application just for the iphone has come out, you can see the familiar purple and yellow theme and all the more familiar yahoo features.

Most of the features from the desktop version have been carried over to the iPhone’s smaller screen including emoticons, avatars, custom status, invisibility, and the option to send SMS to contacts.  The application will also allow sending of pictures clicked using the iPhone’s camera. You can download it from the iPhone AppStore.

The latest buzz is that Yahoo! has launched the Beta version of their web Analytics service, which was earlier acquired from IndexTools & enhanced by Yahoo.

The Yahoo Web Analytics service works much on the similar concepts like the popular Google Analytics tools & provides real time processing & insight into the visitor behavior & the online traffic your website is getting. However, the new Web Analytics tool by Yahoo deliver a lot of powerful, enterprise-class Analytics reports including the hourly clicks, visitor paths, sources, unique visits, transactions & much more.

The new web Analytics tools by Yahoo are Ajax based & hence allow a greater flexibility in customization of layout & features such as drag & drop data filters, custom report wizards, customizable dashboard with graphical data reports using charts, graphs, gauges etc.

Yahoo web Analytics enables easy tracking of the performance of individual products, web pages with advanced campaign management & merchandising tools tools that measure CPC, CPM, CPA & ROI. The reporting tools are created with Yahoo! Open Strategy API that enable enhanced reporting.

Other Features include:

• Comparative Reporting
• Advanced Path Analysis
• Marketing Workflow Management

 

Yahoo has finally released its new Calendar interface after a long gap of several years. The new Yahoo Calendar comes in a new look with an improved, Ajax based drag & drop interface & features like Flickr integration, ToDo list, Email, SMS or IM reminders. It also allows you to subscribe to  someone else’s calendar in case you wish to synchronize your tasks with another user.

The Flickr feature adds some nice, selected high quality images over the calendar interface(refer the screenshot). The images change randomly as background thumbnails over the days in each month.

The future version promises to deliver some new features such as uploading photos from your own flickr stream, adding events from sites like upcoming.org. You will also be able to subscribe to calendars from other Yahoo sites such as Yahoo Sports, Finance, TV etc.

Yahoo also launched yet another social news voting system, just like digg. This is called, Buzz and is now open to the public. Prior to the public release 400 publishers could contribute new links to the service, for the prelimnary seeding.

Anyone can see them and buzz up or down depending on the interest. Unfortunately there is no hype or buzz created on web for this release. Buzz has serious competition with digg and reddit. It is stated that Buzz’s algorithms not only value the voting activity but they also analyze search engine popularity.

Looking at Yahoo answer’s success I think this will make it among the top eventually.

Yahoo has announced its onePlace mobile content management system for consumers. OnePlace can let the consumers do bookmarks to instantly store content of any kind, including links to photos, videos, newsfeeds, and search results.

The content will be constantly updated and categorized, making it simple for users to keep up with the latest information.

Yahoo! onePlace will be available on any browser and any internet-connected device.

Users will also be able to create special collections, allowing them to, say, start collecting photos, maps, and links for a future overseas trip. OnePlace is expected to be available in Q2 2008.