Couple of weeks back, Yahoo released a gorgeous standalone weather app for the iPhone.
When I first heard rumors about the possibility of Yahoo launching a weather app, I wondered if the company was little too late as there were so many awesome weather apps already available in the App Store.
Yahoo has today updated its iPhone app with a bunch of new features, including the ability to generate short summaries of news stories based on natural language processing algorithms. The technology behind the feature came via Yahoo’s recent acquisition of Summly, the iOS app that did pretty much the same thing.
As expected, Yahoo has released an all-new weather app for the iPhone. It’s gorgeous.
The key part of the app besides the weather of course, are photos from Flickr, which change based on the location, time of the day and the current weather condition.
Today Flickr pushed out a major update to their iOS app (something that has been lackluster for a long, long time), and while it looks nice (I just reloaded it onto my iPhone), the more interesting part is who is providing the new filters for the app. The filters are provided by the same folks who helped Twitter with their app. Does this signal a closer relationship between Yahoo! and Twitter?
