Yahoo Soccer experience

As the football World Cup fever started to set in this, here at Yahoo we were primed and ready to keep our users abreast of the action as it happened. Through original videos, in-depth stories, and a unique, honest and outspoken voice from Yahoo Sports global football ambassador, José Mourinho and local football experts, Yahoo was one of the most exciting daily digital destinations for fans across the globe during the tournament.

·         Yahoo Sports site covered every aspect of the World Cup, including pre and post game analysis from our experts, fan views and opinions from outside the stadiums.

·         Some of the key features include:

o   Interactive timeline  - a multi-purpose piece of magic that acted not just as a visual chronological summary of the match, but also as a navigational aid to the detailed commentary below, and a quick and easy way to jump into the most interesting moments of the match, like goals, cards, and substitutions so users can skip to the action directly.

o   We added lots of stats oriented info-graphics

§  Game level, team level, player level stats

§  Donut graphs, pitch view, and goalmouth views 

§  Interactive heat maps

o   Contextual Insight Cards

§  Brings the moment alive with infographics around the situation  (for eg, a substituation, penalty)

§  Formation views of the teams, giving users tactical insights into the match

§  Deep stats about every player during a match, team profiles, player profiles

·         We partnered with José Mourinho, the manager of Chelsea FC and world renowned coach, to be our global football ambassador– users can watch José Mourinho’s regular video commentary throughout the tournament on Yahoo and on José’s Tumblr blog. The world-renowned coach is giving his exclusive insight and opinion throughout the World Cup on Yahoo.

·          Yahoo Sports app – users could download the Yahoo Sports app on iOS and Android devices in order to find out all the latest sports news as it breaks. A lightning-fast source of sports scores, news and stats which can be personalized according to users’ favorite teams, the Yahoo Sports app is bursting with in-game, team and player stats. The app has a video channel which will include videos of José Mourinho’s commentary throughout the tournament. With one unified Yahoo login across all screens (mobile, tablet and PC) and a visually stunning intuitive design, it offers a simple and fast user experience.

·         Fantasy World Football Pick’em – a game where users could pick the World Cup teams they think we’re going to win. Users could play the game as individuals, create a private group to compete amongst friends, or join a private group. All users regardless of language were a member of the Overall Group competing for the overall high score. Users could keep making picks during the World Cup up until before the start of each game. Points were awarded for picking the winner of each game and bonuses were given for guessing the correct score of a game. Points and bonuses increase each round. Point standings were tracked in each group. The user with the most points at the end of the tournament wins their group.

Introducing Flickr 3.0 for iPhone and Android

Every day at Flickr we share our passion for inspiring photography by building world-class tools and beautiful photo displays you can access anywhere. Ten years ago we defined online photo sharing as the first major online community to store, organize, tag, and share digital photos. We could not be more excited to continue shaping digital photography with our new upgrade for Flickr app for iPhone and for Android phones.

Stunning photos made easy

At the heart of our Flickr apps is a powerful mobile camera that makes it easy to take and share amazing photos in high resolution. On iPhone and iPod touch, fourteen live filters let you see how the photo will look even before you take it. And refine your pictures in real-time with a suite of sophisticated editing tools. Whether it’s filters, vignettes, auto-enhance or more professional tools like color balance, levels, and exposure – Flickr’s camera gives you full control over your photos all the time.

New to the Flickr apps, you can record up to 30 seconds of stunning HD video using the same live filters available with photos. Customize your video by adding different segments of footage and if you record a segment that you don’t like, simply remove it with one tap.

All your pictures in one place

On Flickr, everyone gets 1,000 gigabytes of storage free, enough space for more than 500,000 photos, pretty much all the space you’ll ever need. Our new Auto Sync feature lets you seamlessly upload all your original quality photos from your phone automatically to your account, so that Flickr can be your camera roll in the cloud.

Today we are also introducing a new way to rediscover and explore your images. Even if you have thousands of photos, our intelligent search engine will help you find what you’re looking for fast. Flickr’s understanding of your photo’s date and time (ex: “January 2014”), place (ex: “San Francisco”), and even scenes and objects (ex: “car,” “sunset,” “beach,” “portrait”) helps organize your images so you don’t have to.

Sharing photos on Flickr is also easier than ever. Using batch organization and our enhanced sharing features, share any of your photos from Flickr directly to Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook.

Share and connect with the Flickr community

On Flickr, discover photos from your friends and people you don’t even know yet. With the new Flickr apps we hope you’ll take a moment wherever you are to be inspired and inspire others. See photos from the photographers you follow and find what your friends are sharing right on Flickr. Join the conversation or start one of your own by faving a photo and leaving comments!

Flickr has always been about celebrating beautiful photography. Browse top trending photos within our Explore feature and discover new photographers to follow and places to go right from your phone.

We’re also helping you discover more about the photo itself with an enhanced information screen. Find out where the photo was taken and which camera and lens were used to create each shot. You’ll uncover the story behind the photo and gain valuable insights to elevate your own skills!

Now get started

Whether you’re new to Flickr or one of our biggest fans, we want you to know the new apps are the beginning of a great deal more to come! They represent our commitment to building new products for your changing needs and they offer a beautiful canvas for upcoming features.

We invite you to download the Flickr apps for iPhone and for Android. Join the world’s largest photography community, where you can discover billions of beautiful photos and share your own.

Some quick facts on Flickr

●        Flickr has more than 92 million unique users

●        Over 10 billion  photos uploaded to Flickr

●        Since introducing auto-uploader on the iPhone in Oct 2013, over 40% of photos uploaded to Flickr are from auto-upload

●        Since the Q2 ‘14 iOS app launch, global mobile uploads on Flickr have gone up by 50 percent.

●        Our new photo page puts the photo front and center. We also increased performance, you can now view 18 photos in the time it used to take to view 1 photo

●        Over the last year, daily photo uploads have steadily increased more than 3x and we are having the highest level of engagement of our users.

Check out our Flickr page on Tumblr for more details- http://flickr.tumblr.com/

Yahoo Aviate: The Intelligent Homescreen that Simplifies Your Phone

Yahoo Aviate simplifies everything about your android phone. It starts with a clean, new layout and apps automatically organized for you. But it’s not just about making your phone simpler - Aviate also makes your phone smarter by offering intelligent information throughout your day. Whether you’re on the go, at work, at a restaurant or just relaxing at home, Aviate automatically shows you apps and information that are useful to you based on what you’re up to.

Think about how much your phone understands about you -- your location, your contacts, your calendar, your emails. And now, imagine what happens when that context becomes part of your mobile experience. Imagine that your phone could deliver the right experience to you at the right time, instead of you having to search for it. What if your phone suggested music and map apps when you got in the car? Or fitness apps when you get to the gym or go for a run?

Yahoo Aviate does just that -- automatically organizing your apps based on contextual clues, and pulling up relevant apps or suggesting new ones based on your location, the time of day, and what you’re up to -- bringing you what you need, when you need it.

Key Features

●        SIMPLE: Yahoo Aviate simplifies everything about your Android phone: it clears the clutter by automatically categorizing your apps and making them easy to find.

●        INTELLIGENT: Yahoo Aviate also makes your phone smarter by anticipating the apps and information you need throughout your day.

●        New features:

○        People: Yahoo Aviate automatically suggests you set “Favorites” for your most popular contacts. Now, with a simple swipe up from the homescreen, you can call, text, or email your favorite people.

○        Calendar: Yahoo Aviate also incorporates some of the most intelligent machine learning and predictive technologies from the Incredible Labs team to anticipate the information you want.

■        If the next meeting on your calendar is a conference call, a single tap will dial you in and even enter your conference code.

■        Running late to a meeting? Email all the attendees with one tap to let them know.

■        On your way to work? Aviate will estimate commute time, taking traffic into consideration. Heading out to dinner with friends? Aviate makes it simple to call an Uber to get there.

○        More Daily Habits:

■        One-swipe access to daily habits like your alarm clock, weather, a daily news summary, and a curated Flickr image of the day that you can set as your background.

■        Instead of just giving you a snapshot of the day’s weather, Aviate will alert you if today is cooler or warmer than yesterday, or if it’s more likely to rain or snow.

■        Track your sleep feature

Yahoo Aviate isn’t just an app; it’s the homebase for your entire mobile experience. It’s the last thing you touch at night and the first thing you touch when you wake up in the morning. It’s a brand new experience, so give Yahoo Aviate at least a week to see if it can change the way you interact with your phone J

Check out Tumblr Post Link for more details - http://yahooaviate.tumblr.com/

You can download Aviate here      Download Yahoo Aviate

Yahoo News Digest

App delivers an easy- to- navigate summary of the top International news stories twice a day

The International edition of Yahoo News Digest for both iOS and Android users is now available in India. With this app, users can stay on top of all the need-to-know International news, twice a day, on their mobile phones.

We launched the iPhone version in the United States and United Kingdom earlier this year and received an overwhelming response. 40% of those who downloaded the app keep coming back to it on a daily basis. Encouraged by the response, we are now bringing the experience to more people around the world.

Remember waking up to the local morning news? Coming home to the evening news? Reading a newspaper from front to back page? These formats have been daily habits since the invention of the television and the printing press. We wanted Yahoo News Digest to revisit a content format that when read, led you to a sense of completion and conclusiveness, much like reading the newspaper did.

With Summly, we learned that people don’t necessarily have the time to read a lengthy article, especially when they have limited screen real-estate while they’re on the go. By giving powerful algorithmic summaries, we found that people were willing to consume more content when it was boiled down to the most important bits.

Yahoo News Digest makes your news reading experience simplified, effortless, comprehensive, and complete. Every morning and night, the app delivers a summarized version of the top International news, in an easy-to-navigate design.

We’ve taken summarization to the next level with News Digest, by algorithmically and editorially selecting the important articles and using multi-document summarization to identify the key ‘bits and pieces of information’. We’ve named these bits and pieces “Atoms.”  Our Atoms assembled from around the web include articles, maps, infographics, Wikipedia extracts, videos, photos and more.

The app covers stories from news categories like - News, Technology, Sports, Business, World etc. Users can scan the summary, as well as read “atoms,” which conveys different dimensions of the story from the who, what, when, how, and why of a topic. 

The Android version of the Yahoo News Digest was built specifically with a new homescreen widget that will display the most recent unread digest for easy viewing. Unlike other homescreen widgets, the Yahoo News Digest widget keeps track of the digests you’ve read. 

Our International edition is compiled by Yahoo editors in the UK, US, and Malaysia to offer round-the-clock updates and will deliver a timely Digest everyday at 8am and 6pm local time, wherever you are in the world.

Our goal with the Yahoo News Digest is to make sure you’re always in the know. We hope you’ll enjoy it.

Quick Facts on News Digest

·         Recently, Apple announced that Yahoo News Digest is a recipient for this year’s Apple Design Award.  To be recognized a second time by Apple, a company that has inspired millions of developers around the world to understand that simplicity can create enduring beauty, is something we are incredibly proud of.

·         Since its launch in the US, we received an overwhelming response, 40% of people who download the app come back on a daily basis and 50% completed the digest.