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Yahoo! Pushes Out Even More Social
SitePoint — ... At an event in San Francisco today, Yahoo! announced a broad expansion of their open strategy. Perhaps most compellingly, their 275 million user strong Yahoo! Mail application has been turned into an open app platform. ...

Yahoo Mail Application Platform is Live
Mashable! — ... , 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 few partners right now – Wordpress, Flixster, and Xoopit - and will become more widely available next year. ...

Yahoo Rolls Out “Open” Strategy
Technologizer — ... . Now the company is being forced to reinvent itself by doing more to appeal to developers and embedding social networking features in its heavily-trafficked Web services. The latest phase of that transition is an extension of its Yahoo Open Strategy (YOS) to some of its most popular Web properties, including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Toolbar, and across the company’s media Web sites. Mostly notably, today Yahoo announced an upgrade to Yahoo Mail that serves up information that might be of interest to subscribers. The Mail site now ...

Yet Another Reason to Love Yahoo Mail – It Is Open and Social Now
Profy — ... 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 will feel significant changes pretty soon as their inbox is turning into “smarter inbox” as described by Yahoo team. ...

As Expected Yahoo Mail Platform Launches [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... On their developer blog, Mark Risher, Director, Product Management at Yahoo! Mail wrote: “Because of the sensitivity of the information in people’s inboxes, we’re adding developers gradually while we refine the application security and privacy protections our Yahoo! Mail users demand.” I am optimistic about this Yahoo effort. As I wrote in my previous post, “Yahoo has an unique opportunity with this platform. In particular, it plays to Yahoo’s strength in making complex technologies simple for a mass market audience, a trick ...

Yahoo rolls out updates to ‘Mail, My Yahoo, Toolbar’ & more
D' Technology Weblog — ... New Yahoo! Mail – For it’s web mail client, Yahoo is bringing a smarter inbox experience to its users primarily with the integration of relevan third party applications ( ...

Linkpost | 12.16.2008
TechBlog — ... but notebooks remain strong. • Rumor: New Mac Mini Coming to Macworld 2009 and Steve Jobs Will MAY Be At MacWorld Expo, Event Manager Says - Steve Jobs hasn't been confirmed as doing the keynote this year. • New highly critical Facebook XSS vulnerabilities pose serious privacy risks - Facebook is turning into quite the risky place. • Portland Gets WiMAX Service - Second city to get the faster wireless network, after Baltimore. • Yahoo! Mail rolls out a smarter inbox and Yahoo Mail, other properties get more social, ...