For all you techies that think Yahoo! is dead, think again. With over 130,000,00+ visitors a month, Yahoo! is still an attractive suitor, whether the valley believes it or not. Yahoo! is now using this as their selling point for developers to start making plug-ins for their new (and supposedly improved) homepage.

Using the proprietary Yahoo! Application platform (YAP) developers can easily create slightly more advanced widgets that users can “install” on their homepage. Currently there are 80+ apps that you can install on the Yahoo! homepage ranging from the standard weather apps to social media sites like Myspace and Facebook. In another words, there is sure to be an app you will enjoy on your homepage.

While this is a worthy attempt to make Yahoo! your destination site of choice I still have a feeling that Yahoo! isn’t quite doing enough to differentiate itself. Many personalized homepages do what Yahoo! does and I believe in iGoogle’s case, much better. Some of the apps also seem slightly buggy. When using the Wordpress Quickpost application it was not uncommon for me to run into some issues trying to load the application in …

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