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Yahoo Mail Might Be the Next Great App Platform
Mashable! —
... Today, some new information has emerged from Om Malik, who suggests that the company is soon to launch an application platform for Yahoo Mail. According to Malik, “the program is expected to launch in beta relatively soon with half a dozen small applications running in a sidebar inside the Yahoo mail client … Users’ address books would act as a social graph, essentially turning Yahoo Mail into the basis of a whole new social networking experience.” ...
From portal to platform: Yahoo’s push via the inbox
Between the Lines —
... One of Yahoo’s most valuable properties is its web mail service, which has more members and gets more traffic than mail services provided by Google, MSN and AOL. Yahoo Mail was once part of the portal, another offering along side things like photo services, stock portfolios, alerts and other services under Yahoo’s “portal” umbrella. Now, according to an entry on GigaOm , Yahoo is gearing up to use the popular mail service as the platform that would host other tools and features. And many of those could be created by third-party developers, which is part of Yahoo’s bigger push ...
Yahoo Email Application Platform
Changing Way —
... How about Ymail as an application platform? That would be obvious, and perhaps late, given what Facebook, Google, and others have been up to. But better late than never, and Om reports that Y seem to be taking the better course. ...
Forget the fancy stuff, Yahoo, and start making money
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Yahoo is getting ready to turn its email service into a developer platform, according to this report from Om Malik. His takeaway points: a beta could be coming before the month is out, first featuring work by a number of trusted partners (such as Evite) and using the data hidden in users' address books as "the basis of a whole new social networking experience". Sounds good, right? Well, while the timeline might be new, very little of the information is. And, at its heart, this tells us a lot about why Yahoo finds itself in such a precarious position today. ...
Roundup: Yahoo Mail becomes developer platform, capital calls go unpaid, thieves win hacking war
VentureBeat —
... Yahoo may turn email into developer platform: GigaOm reports that the beleaguered company may open up its Yahoo Mail platform so that developers can build apps that run on top of it, much like developers do for Facebook. ...
Never Leave Your E-mail Again
louisgray.com —
... sure how I missed it, because it has even been a news item this week. Google has been preparing GMail to be your new home. Personalized homepages like iGoogle and MyYahoo are useful, but typically they are just another place that the user needs to go to. e-mail is something that people use all day and every day. We have seen the movement slowly with the integration of other frequently used items like GTalk and Google Calendar. The main reason I am shocked that I missed this is because Om Malik reported on this very same thing for ...
10 Pieces of Unsolicited, Unsophisticated Advice for Yahoo
Technologizer —
... ” and be willing to sell yourself to the highest bidder. Choose one path. 3) Right this very minute, do everything in your power to make sure that signature properties such as Yahoo Mail and My Yahoo are relevant, not relics. I like the idea of Yahoo-Mail-as-platform , for instance. 4) Speaking of My Yahoo, make it relevant to sophisticated Web users again. In general, it’s probably a good idea for Yahoo not to robotically follow Google’s lead, but is there any question that My Yahoo circa late 2008 should be a lot more like iGoogle? 5) Make sure that your ability to crank ...
Yahoo Mail App Platform To Launch Tomorrow [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Yahoo, after a rotten week, might actually get some positive press! The company is launching Yahoo Mail as a platform tomorrow and organizing a big shin-dig in San Francisco for the launch. Last week, I had reported that Yahoo would launch this platform relatively soon. The company has been getting a few applications ready for the launch, and I know of at least five apps that are part of this launch. ...
As Expected Yahoo Mail Platform Launches [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... application to show off this new social mailbox, as we reported last week. Yahoo also launched three apps of its own — Flickr, Yahoo Greetings and Family Journal. ...
Will Yahoo Use Xoopit’s CloudQuery to Help Usher in the Real-time Web? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Yet it appears Yahoo is acquiring Xoopit as part of its strategy of focusing on a handful of core apps — among them email — and turn its email application into a platform, around which it hopes developers will create an ...
