★ CEO of Yahoo! acquired Xoopit talks about email Biz
Bijan Marashi, CEO of Yahoo! acquired Xoopit, explains why you should not start an email startup
∞ "Improve" Yahoo! Mail, at what cost ?
What is the “Improve Yahoo! Mail” Research Project? The “Improve Yahoo! Mail” Research Project will review and analyze a small percentage of user emails, IMs (instant messages), and other communications content to help Yahoo! plan new features and products, create better advertising experiences, and better understand our users’ needs and desires.
The new Yahoo Mail app, called “Improve Yahoo! Mail” looks kind of weird and not really Yahoo-like. basically if you opt-in you just grant access to your email to be scan by REAL people who can actually read them for
developing an understanding of the effectiveness and accuracy of not only new Yahoo! Mail product features, but also the personalization of new and existing products, features, content, and advertising.
Yeh.. but have they ever been…
A nice hack by sy1bzbn demoing the deep integration of Yahoo! Calendar into Yahoo! Mail Neo beta. The userscript should be avalaible soon. Learn more here.
“Twice as fast”. That’s how Yahoo! described the new Yahoo! Mail beta. “New application architecture”. That’s another promise they made.
Well.
Obviously things are not going this way and the Xoopit application, called My Photos, has been down for…ever !
Yahoo! attempts to get more developers to build nice web apps for Yahoo! Mail. They’ve come up with an application called Kitchen Sink. It illustrates the different actions that an application can do like send an email, open/close a tab, open/close a dialogue, perform a search ….
Hopefully nice things will be made out of this new API
Yahoo! Chat archive is coming to Yahoo! Mail. A new folder appears when Yahoo! Mail is set up via IMAP.
In this folder I have found previous conversations from the Y! Messenger client (not just the Yahoo! Mail webmessenger).
Nice job for unifying communication
∞ Yahoo to phase out classic email in 2011
Ouch! I bet more than one user wil be upset about that. The current beta better be a killer product in the end!
From Gmanews.tv :
Yahoo Philippines officially unveiled this week a more streamlined version of its popular web email service, updating the classic interface which has remained essentially unchanged for 13 years.
Last November 15, Yahoo Philippines launched Yahoo! Mail Beta, which prominently features integrated access to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It is also touted to be faster and more spam-proof than the Classic version that most people have been accustomed to for more than a decade.
“Our goal is to be a facilitator and aggregator of content,” said Isaac Souweine, Yahoo! product marketing manager for Southeast Asia.
Souweine’s sentiments echoed those of Yahoo’s chief product officer, Blake Irving.
“Online communication tools are an important part of people’s lives —whether they’re connecting with their friends and family, sharing pictures and videos, or keeping up on news across social networks,” Irving said press release.
Although still in beta, the new email interface is expected to supplant the Classic interface, the look of which has remained essentially unchanged since 1997.
“2011 will see the phase out of Yahoo Mail Classic,” Souweine said.
He declined to give an exact timeline, but said that the new interface will be fully rolled out by the first quarter of next year. After this time, users will be gradually migrated to the new service. The migration is expected to be completed by the end of 2011.
Until now, the Yahoo Mail Classic interface has always been an option for users even after the introduction in 2005 of an Ajax-based desktop client-like interface similar to Microsoft Outlook.
Yahoo Philippines hopes that the new interface, with its integrated social media capability, will be a hit among Filipino users. According to a recent Gartner study, Filipinos are the most avid users of Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter in Asia.
★ Yahoo, can you please shut down this spam bot ?
Every single day I receive spam which obviously comes from an Asian spambot. oh sure those messages are correctly filtered out of my inbox. yet this is nonetheless really annoying to manually delete those when checking for false positives.
So please Yahoo! can you just have this spam bot shut down ??
Slideshow : what the integration of Yahoo! Calendar in Yahoo! Mail may look like. Those are pictures posted by a Yahoo! user who previously published tips that we reprinted over here few days ago. Given how the address book has been worked out in the beta, those screenshots look quite realistic. Not sure those are official for sure though
