It’s the thawing season, and there’s no better way to do it than revitalizing your weather outlook with a fresh app – like this new standalone weather app from Yahoo. The company is using crowd-sourced Flickr photos from various cities to indicate the current weather and it’s a beautiful success. Anyone can submit their best work to the Flickr pool and Yahoo moderates the photos to ensure for accuracy and of course beauty.

Our goal is to have amazing photos for every weather condition that cover the globe — morning, afternoon, and night — across every city in the world, and we want your help. Whether you’re simply a daydreamer or an avid photographer, submit photos of your favorite places to our Flickr Group and your image can be seen by tens of millions in Yahoo! Weather for iPhone. Read more

Yahoo has acquired the app developer Stamped, in a deal whose terms were not disclosed. The Stamped brand will be absorbed into Yahoo and the company will be discontinuing its Stamp product — a social tool in which users can give products and services a “stamp” of approval — by the end of the year.

In a blog post on the Stamped website, the founders Robby Stein, Bart Stein & Kevin Palms wrote, “As entrepreneurs, it’s never easy to walk away from something you built from the ground up, but the folks we met with at Yahoo! are simply top-notch and we’re thrilled to be joining them!”

In the post, the executives went on to reveal that they will be “creating a brand new product and engineering office for Yahoo in NYC’s Bryant Park.” They did not explain what the product would be, but did say that it will be “something big, mobile, and new.” Read more

Yahoo is taking a new approach to search through its new app Axis. The HTML-5 based app serves up page previews rather than just plain links for searches. So for example, if you are searching for the “world’s best surfer,” you’ll see images of pages featuring surfers, rather than just a page of links.

The app is available for desktop computers, the iPad and iPhones. Interestingly, your searches can be synced across devices. So for example, if you begin a search on the iPhone and continue it on your iPad, you can click “continue from iPhone” on the app to pull up your most recent search.

We’ve embedded Yahoo’s demo video above so that you can see how it works. (Via Computer World).