I logged in to my yahoo account with my sleepy eyes, isn't it the first thing we do in the morning (check out emails!!!). I would have usually deleted this email, but the title was intriguing "Check out Shine, Yahoo's new site for WOMEN". Being a woman, that is definitely attractive but being an IT gal, I started thinking what part of the triangle was it used to put this site together. They definitely have the people aspect in mind (women), the layout and information displayed is personalized with my login name, temperature in Orlando, FL (I need to update my profile) . It is quiet obvious from the later information that they are using the yahoo profile and filtering based on gender and then customizing the login page with ones' location, horospcope and other...any one checked it yet. Will you be tempted to make it your default yahoo page, find it useful...or it is just a gimmick to get us to buy more shoes (not literally, just being sarcastic).... what do you think?
Check it out : http://shine.yahoo.com/
Hi Rachida,
It's amazing how well timed your post is. I've just done a lot of reading on cognition, human information processing, and interaction with computers. I believe that the Yahoo Shine site is an interesting example of personalized user modeling.
I would like to assure you that I enjoyed reading all of your posts. My only regret is that Russian is not one of your favorite languages;)
If you have a moment, please, drop me a line too.
Anna Levy