Yahoo! Unveils Social Inbox and Open Features for Key Products
pFollowing quite closely in the footsteps of a href=”http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/081212-124209″AOL’s Bebo/a, Yahoo! has a href=”http://ycorpblog.com/2008/12/15/giving-you-the-personal-touch/”unveiled/a a new version of their email inbox, which incorporates social media. Starting with a limited beta release, Yahoo is opening Mail up to third-party applications such as Flixter, Wordpress, and Xoopit./p
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pContinuing on the theme of opening up products, Yahoo also announced advancements in the following products:/p
ullistrongMy Yahoo!/strong - Starting today, My Yahoo! can be enhanced by adding applications created by third-party developers. The aps will range from productivity tools to games, and will infuse My Yahoo! with new social relevance. A new My Yahoo! Theme API lets third-party designers create themes for My Yahoo! pages/lilistrongYahoo! Toolbar/strong - Next year’s new toolbar will be available for a sneak preview later this week at toolbar.yahoo.com and will provide constant access to online tasks and news. Features include:ulliApps for checking new email from Yahoo! and other popular Web-based email providers, monitoring or searching for items on eBay, and finding local movie showtimes/liliAlerts that notify a user about Updates from their personal connections - including their friends’ recent activity across the Yahoo! network and eventually, elsewhere on the Web./liliPersonal search suggestions that surface the sites a user has visited and provide vertical search results directly from the Toolbar./li/ul/lilistrongYahoo! Updates/strong - This new feature will allow users to quickly check their updates across the Yahoo! network, such as a recently a href=”http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080819-104643″Buzzed/a article, a hotel review in Yahoo! Travel, adding a new app to My Yahoo!, […]
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