Yahoo! Singapore Answers blog

Yahoo! Answers will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance today from 4:30 – 7:30pm (approximately) and one more next week on 20 April. Answers will be totally inaccessible during this time, except for the blog of course.

Sorry for any inconveniences caused! We’ll keep you posted if there are any changes to the schedule.

If you are looking for something else to do during this time, why not check out some of our sites such as:

• Flickr (now with video)
• Video – Take a break, catch a funny video
• Avatars – Play around with your avatars and give him/her a new outfit

…. or maybe you can check out what is showing in the cinemas near you!

There has been a lot of interest and activity around our move to Yahoo! profiles. A benefit of using one profile for your Yahoo! experience means you can now share your Answers activity with those you are connected to via your Yahoo! profile, even if they aren’t Answers users. Sharing your updates will help you get better responses to your questions and will show off your knowledge to your entire social network!

We have added two new ‘Updates’ features to Answers:

• One notifies your contacts each time you ask a question
• One notifies your contacts of each question you answer

Now, when you are at the “Preview your question” stage of asking a question, you will be prompted to “Manage your updates”. Here you choose if you want to share your updates to your social connections.

By default, updates will be set to “Don’t share my updates” to keep your content private unless you choose otherwise. To give you control over what and when you share, this option can be changed anytime you ask or answer a question. You have full control over this setting from the “Edit my profile” page too. By not sharing your updates, whatever you do on Answers will not appear on your Yahoo! profile.

When you ask or answer we offer a link to your profile to show you exactly who you are currently sharing updates with. Click the “Manage who sees your updates” link to be taken to profiles which is the place where you can control who see all of your Yahoo! Updates.

Had enough of seeing this message? Tick the box and we promise it won’t appear again.

We’ve tried tp make controlling your updates as simple as possible, but if you want more information about managing your Answers updates, you can find it through these Help pages: http://help.yahoo.com/l/sg/yahoo/answers/updates/

If you are still unsure about how your profile works or how to change features on your Yahoo! profile, check out our sister-blog www.yprofileblog.com and this article in particular: http://www.yprofileblog.com/blog/2009/03/31/answers-questions-about-profiles/ that is addressed to Answers users.

We hope you like the new feature, happy updating!