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Last summer I got an amazing opportunity to intern at Yahoo! for 3 months. It was a really cool experience and I learned a ton while working on a project that at the time I could not talk about. As it turns out, that project has finally gone public beta and I can talk about it (at least so far as it exists and stuff I guess).

All New My Yahoo

I worked on the team that made that, albeit in a earlier and less polished form. It’s hard to tell what of my code survived since according to my old manager they had to throw out a lot of the old designs. However, the weather widget still looks like the same one I wrote with some moderate refactoring. That was cool to see as I’m pretty proud of that weather widget. The “Set My Yahoo! as your Home Page” link is still there and appears to still work the same way. I can’t say for sure on any of this because untangling jsmin’d javascript is no fun.

The new beta can be accessed by going to http://cm.my.yahoo.com/upgrade and I have to say I like it quite a bit. The inclusion of the big ad on the right is too bad but with AdBlock I never see it so it’s a non-issue for me. The team has done a really amazing job on this in the 6 months I’ve been gone, a lot of the early designs have been polished until they practically shine. It’s definitely still feeling the performance blues but I have no doubt that they’ll get it running smoothly before launch.