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Yahoo Mail Going Social

March 20, 2023 By J. Angelo Racoma 1 Comment

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 mountains of spam or work email.

The inbox for the the first time lets people install third-party applications such as movie-recommendation service Flixster and blogging tools from WordPress.

Technology from startup Xoopit (pronounced swoop-it) will fetch all pictures buried in stored emails, even retrieving images from website links found in messages.

Earlier this year, Yahoo opened up its email service to let third-party developers create add-on applications to the service, much like how one could launch applications on social networking site FaceBook. This move is meant to add value to email, which is considered among the top applications that people use the Internet for.

Ideally, this should make things easier to manage. But the concern here is that having yet another social media profile to maintain might make it more cumbersome for users. The idea of consolidating all of a user’s online presences (blogs, social networks, photos, lifestreams, etc.) under one site–or portal, which Yahoo! is–is an attractive proposition, though. But this might be difficult to achieve, given the different standards among different social networks.

Originally posted on December 16, 2008 @ 1:59 pm

Filed Under: Yahoo Tagged With: Email, social, Yahoo

Google terminates service agreement with Yahoo!

March 20, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand 1 Comment

Yahoo! Inc. announced that Google has terminated the advertising services agreement the companies announced in June. Yahoo! continues to believe in the benefits of the agreement and is disappointed that Google has elected to withdraw from the agreement rather than take it to court. The Department of Justice said that it would seek to block the deal, despite Yahoo!’s proposed revisions to address the DOJ’s concerns.

Originally posted on November 5, 2008 @ 12:05 pm

Filed Under: Advertising, Google, Search, Yahoo Tagged With: Google, Yahoo

Yahoo’s third quarter earnings way off; Heads to roll

March 20, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand Leave a Comment

Yahoo! Inc. reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008 and it’s not fun. The search company earned $54.3 million, or 4 cents per share, down by 64 percent from $151.3 million. It was off by 9 cents per share based on projections by analysts.

Because of this, Yahoo! is cutting 10 percent of its employees as part of its plan to implement cost cutting measures towards saving $400 million.

Originally posted on October 21, 2008 @ 5:20 pm

Filed Under: Search, Web Tagged With: earnings, Search, Web, Yahoo

Yahoo! releases new online calendar

March 17, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand

Yahoo! Inc. announced the release of an all-new Yahoo! Calendar. The new calendar offers an intuitive, online social calendaring experience that enables people to be more productive.

Based on open standards, the new Yahoo! Calendar beta makes it easy for users to discover, share and keep track of events and appointments. Other new easy-to-use features allow consumers to keep track of activities through color-coding, drag and drop appointments for easy scheduling, and “zoom-in and -out” from a monthly “wall calendar” view to a single event – all from within a Yahoo! Mail account. In addition, images from the Flickr photo community can be included to create a visual, unique-looking online calendar with interesting photos.

The new Yahoo! Calendar is built on the Zimbra platform using the iCalendar (iCal) and CalDAV3 standards. The new calendar is interoperable with other online calendar services including those from Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, AOL and Google, so users can share their calendar data with friends who use other online calendaring services and subscribe to any iCal-based public calendar.

Originally posted on October 8, 2008 @ 10:08 am

Filed Under: Web, Yahoo Tagged With: online calendar, Yahoo, Zimbra

Yahoo! done with social networking attempt

March 17, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand

In case you missed this news going towards weekend, let me inform you that Yahoo! is done with its social networking play, announcing that it is shutting down Mash.

“Thank you for trying out Mash Beta service, We hope you had fun with it. Please note that we will shut down Mash on September 29, 2008. As a result, your current profile on Mash will no longer be available,” Matt Warburton, community manager, wrote in an email to members.

Mash launched a year ago with hopes of competing against Facebook. Obviously, Yahoo! failed on this one. We’ll not be sad on this one. It stinks anyway.

Originally posted on September 1, 2008 @ 9:05 am

Filed Under: Social Network, Yahoo Tagged With: social networking, Yahoo

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