CNET reports that Yahoo!, as part of the new Open Strategy, demonstrated a new Netflix widget that could be placed on the home page.
Ash Patel, head of Yahoo's Audience Products Division, showed an example that endowed the company's home page, search, and mail sites with the ability to deal with the Netflix video rental site.The home page was endowed with a new Netflix application that showed movies Patel has ordered and those recommended for him. A search results, augmented with SearchMonkey technology, let him add new movies to his movie queue. And a mail application let him rate his movie directly within an e-mail.
On the Yahoo! SearchMonkey page, Yahoo! also shows a search example where users are able to view movie information from Flixter and IMDB, and even add a movie to their Netflix queue:
If you use Yahoo!, you can add a Netflix widget to your My Yahoo! page that shows new releases, top rentals, your movies at home and your queue.
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