Yahoo plans a more social, open homepage design

by admin September 12, 2008 at 7:42 pm

Yahoo may be planning for social network domination, but that hasn’t stopped the struggling search and content portal from announcing a major redesign of its homepage. It’s the first redesign in over two years, during which time Yahoo has taken a financial beating, so it’s safe to assume that the company has high hopes that this will rejuvenate one of its fundamental properties.

The most significant change Yahoo will offer is a much more customizable version of its homepage, powered by the “widgets” that are popular on similar content portals and social networking sites like iGoogle and Facebook.

Read more: arstechnica.com