eweek.com - 12/16/2008
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Yahoo introduces the new Yahoo Mail, a messaging and collaboration platform that aims to integrate multiple Web services and strengthen connections between users and their contacts. Yahoo hopes the new Mail app will help it better compete with Google and Microsoft in the Web services arena. ...
Yahoo Announces Next Steps in Open Strategy
techcrunch.com 12/15/2008 —
Yahoo has invited the press to an event in San Francisco today where it will announce the next steps in its open strategy (details found here ).
As GigaOm speculated over the weekend, we should be hearing details about the deployment of ...
Yahoo begins rolling out social, extensible e-mail inbox
arstechnica.com 12/16/2008 — Recognizing that we are now communicating over social networking sites and microblogs, Yahoo has begun testing a smarter, more social inbox. With the ability to pull in social activity, blog, and add third-party applications, the new Yahoo Mail is ...
Yahoo Mail Application Platform is Live
mashable.com 12/16/2008 — As rumored last week , Yahoo Mail has launched an application platform, allowing developers to build apps that add functionality to users’ inboxes. The platform isn’t wide open just yet – as Yahoo notes in a blog entry, it’s in testing with a ...
Yahoo Opens Its Open Strategy With Mail, Toolbar, My Yahoo and Media
digitaldaily.allthingsd.com 12/16/2008 — After a week of bleeding purple a heavily bandaged Yahoo (YHOO) has regrouped to roll out its vaunted Open Strategy. At an event in San Francisco today, the company “socialized” upgrades to Yahoo Mail, Toolbar, My Yahoo, Yahoo TV and ...
Do First, Announce Second – Good Lesson for Yahoo —
Profy
I could never really understand what makes both startups and established internet companies announce upcoming services or products way before they are actually supposed to be available to users. I often get emails with “scoops” from startups but usually I try to reply politely that ...
Yahoo Mail Going Social —
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Yahoo reports that its mail service is turning social , particularly with an end-goal of unifying Yahoo and third-party social media services into one place.
A “smarter inbox” puts messages from friends or family in a separate, tabbed file so they don’t get buried under ...
Yahoo Makes Mail, Toolbar More Social —
Digital Trends
Following up on an initiative it announced almost a year ago, embattled Internet giant Yahoo has rolled out a new version of its widely-used Yahoo Mail service that offers a "smarter," socially aware inbox that can automatically highlight communications from friends on ...
Yahoo E-mail Service: Now more like Facebook and MySpace —
PR News:
Yahoo Inc have said that they are introducing a host of new features that will hopefully allow the e-mail service to be more like popular social network sites Facebook and MySpace. These new features have been in development of over a year now.
The new features are the brain child of Yahoo ...
Yet Another Reason to Love Yahoo Mail – It Is Open and Social Now —
Profy
We have already discussed Yahoo’s impressive plans to make its products and services open by giving place to third-party applications and now we already see some of these plans turning into reality - or at least into a limited testing stage for some of the Yahoo users. Fans of Yahoo! Mail ...
Yahoo Starts Making its Mail Client More Social —
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Yahoo is rolling out some new features of its Mail client. These updates are all geared into making Yahoo! Mail a more social and useful web-mail applications emphasizing on quick access to Friends’ updates and seamless integration of third-party applications and services including ...
Yahoo Mail to Get Applications [Yahoo] —
Lifehacker
The beta version of Yahoo Mail is getting third-party applications like Xoopit, WordPress, Flixster, and Flickr—and other Yahoo products are also seeing upgrades, TechCrunch reports.
In what...
Yahoo Mail starts transition to social platform —
Between the Lines
Starting today, some Yahoo Mail subscribers will start to see new features and tools in the inbox, reflecting the company’s push to look more like a platform instead of a portal.
On the surface, Yahoo is launching some cool stuff - a deeper integration between mail messages and sites such ...
Yahoo puts meat on Open Strategy bones —
Webware.com
Updated 12:17 p.m. PST with further details.
SAN FRANCISCO--Yahoo on Monday began launching some of the serious aspects of its Yahoo Open Strategy , including a new version of Yahoo Mail that sorts the in-box according to your social connections and that can be expanded with mail-specific ...
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