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Yahoo Mail starts transition to social platform
Between the Lines —
... the mailbox, they should have launched this effort with access to the Yahoo Address Book, instead of making it a “coming soon” feature. After all, the first thing that any social networking site - Facebook, MySpace and others - does is to try to tap directly into your e-mail address book to start building social relationships. Looking beyond the bells and whistles of the new inbox, there’s a more significant thing happening here - and it’s clearly evident by the language used in Yahoo’s video clip about the new features. In that clip, the narrator refers to all the things you ...
Yahoo Mail Retooled as Smarter Inbox For Third-Party Development
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
... ad deal with Google to bolster its ailing search ad business, all of which will symbolize Yang's nearly 18 month tenure at the top. Yet Yahoo believes opening up its traditionally closed, siloed networks to outside development will be the key to succeeding in keeping its massive core audience as it seeks to compete with Google and Microsoft going forward. In this video demo , the so-called "smarter inbox" surfaces messages, information and activity updates from people users care about most, as well as an updated inbox and folder view that filters messages from those personal ...
Yahoo Starts Making its Mail Client More Social
(Obsolete Feed) —
... The new features which is currently being rolled to select Yahoo Mail beta testers are aimed at transforming the Yahoo! Mail experience smarter and more useful, and who knows maybe later on it may lead to another social networking/social media application based on the Yahoo! Mail platform? ...
Yahoo previews its smarter mailbox -- but it's only a video
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Yahoo has previewed its new "smarter inbox" for Mail, which will be able to incorporate third-party applications (Flickr, Flixster, Xoopit). You can watch a 5-minute video but it's a limited beta so you probably can't use it. The blog post says: "Only our power users, who were invited into the limited beta, can test out the new applications at beta.mail.yahoo.com." There's nothing new in my Yahoo mailbox -- and it's still very, very slow -- but you may be luckier. ...
Yahoo Mail unveils 'smarter inbox'
Web User | News —
... that can work within it, opening up Yahoo Mail to content and services built outside the Yahoo network," said Mark Risher, product management director at Yahoo Mail. Other changes will allow members to access the photo-sharing website Flickr from within their Inbox under its 'Open Mail Initiative'. The new features are currently only available to power users, but Yahoo said it will be extending the beta test to other users during 2009. Watch a video of Yahoo Mail's new smarter inbox in action. ...
Yahoo Mail updated for social networking, applications support
Obsessable News Feed —
... Yahoo is in the midst of retooling its Mail web service to heavily focus on social networking and the integration of third-party apps. At the center of the change is a simplified inbox interface, which looks a bit like a cross between Twitter and a Facebook wall. Those other users whom you're friends with show up as your "connections". Ones with recent activity are displayed with with their profile photo and a list of recent email subjects they've sent you. Clicking on one of those links opens the mail just like the traditional inbox would. The benefit here is ...
Google and Yahoo Continue Email Improvements
WebProNews Feed —
... that allows you to login to multiple accounts simultaneously. Yahoo better keep looking over its shoulder in the email department, where it actually rules over Google in market share. As Gmail continues to improve, there is a strong possibility that it will attract more users. Although a number of Gmail's useful features are still in Labs. To be fair though, Yahoo's been working on improvements of their own, so don't sail them down the river just yet. Just the other day they announced their new "smarter inbox" which gives users immediate access to third-party applications ...
Do First, Announce Second – Good Lesson for Yahoo
Profy —
... Yahoo is also a huge company that seems to abuse this approach pretty often but with much less success and yesterday’s announcement of the new “smarter” inbox in Yahoo Mail will probably be a good lesson for them to try and avoid disappointing the users. ...
How to do more, surf less
Yodel Anecdotal —
Did you know people in the U.S. visit an average of 85 sites per month? That just sounds exhausting. So we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how we can ease the pain of site-hopping to help you do more things at once.
This week, you’ll find a number of new third-party “apps” and “widgets” on Yahoo! Mail, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Connected TV and Zimbra email to give you quicker access to the things you do online every day – whether planning your dinner menu, sharing photos with friends, or looking for YouTube videos. Below are screenshots and more info on some that we think are especially handy. ...
