Comments on: Yoono: Love Affair or Just a Fling?

By: Todd Pringle

Todd Pringle — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:13:16 +0000

Bean,

One other thing I forgot to mention based on your post is that you can still display multiple widgets if you prefer to – simply hold the control key on your keyboard (command key if on a Mac) and click on the widgets you’d like to display together in the thin bar on the far left (i.e. where you normally select widgets to switch “tabs).

Best,
Todd

By: Bean

Bean — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:54:20 +0000

I like the way that I am able to have a conversation with the company and with potential customers at the same time. I am betting dollars to donuts that Todd from Yoono found out about this post because I put #yoono in the tweet about this post. Being a responsive business, concerned about people are saying about Yoono, he probably has a search running on Tweetdeck that lets him know when and what people are saying about Yoono. As I said in my comment to Todd, I do feel heard and isn’t communication what a relationship is all about?

By: Karol Grace

Karol Grace — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:04:27 +0000

This is very interesting. I want to know what happens! It’s a little like the bridge to Bell’s Bend, if you happen to remember Three Dog’s post on that subject.

Editor’s note- The Bell’s Bend post link is now added to Karol’s name.

By: Bean

Bean — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:08:42 +0000

Yes I do! This was such a great app for LVS instructors. It made keeping track of multiple classes while researching so much easier. I was already to write this up for the Blogging for Fun, Fame and Fortune students, but took it out of the lesson plan after the upgrade

By: Bean

Bean — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:07:41 +0000

Todd,
I do see the potential in Yoono, even if my enthusiasm has dimmed. I did remove Yoono from my curriculum this last session, but I continue to keeping trying to use it myself. I appreciate your responsiveness to your clients’ feedback. I do feel heard and I am hoping to regain the spark in my Yoono love affair. But please, there is no room in this love affair for the sparkly, blinking text advertisement!

By: Todd Pringle

Todd Pringle — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:28:52 +0000

Thanks for the praise (and critical feedback) Bean. As mentioned on the Yoono blog we want to make Yoono an indispensable tool for our users and part of that process involves listening to everyone. The other part is of course making sure Yoono the company is still around, hence the ads. As I also mentioned in the blog, we’ll be experimenting with several monetization ideas in 2009 and trying to figure out what works best for us and our users. A paid option that is ad free could potentially be part of that experimentation if there is enough interest. I’m glad you are seeing some improvement in ad quality – this will be an area that we continually focus on improving (along with many others).

I hope you stick with us because we’ve got some great improvements coming in the next couple months!

Best,
Todd Pringle
VP, Product Marketing @Yoono

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:52:44 +0000

Thanks for the info – it looks like a great app – but like you, I don’t want blinkies. Don’t you hate it when they mess with a great product?