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Yahoo Mail’s Open Applications hands-on

A day after requesting to have the beta access to Yahoo Mail’s open application, my wish was granted today. These application are only accessible via beta URL, but you won’t be able to see it unless you have been granted access prior that.

The first app that I open definitely Wordpress. As my early guess, it wasn’t something that new. It allow you to post a new article to wordpress.com or your own hosted wordpress blog(require XMLRPC setup) as well as reading Wordpress.com blogs.

Next to it is Flickr. It offer option whether you want Yahoo Mail accessing your Flickr account or not. By allowing Yahoo Mail talking to Flickr (yeah they share the same Yahoo ID),  you’ll be able to open and share your photostream, your friends photos or favourite photos to others via email. Not to worry, if you don’t have Flickr account, since you can still viewing and sharing public photos.

I did open other applications but not go through it very much, as I’m not really into is as often as Wordpress & Flickr.

Third party applications

Will Yahoo bring Facebook, Myspace  or even Twitter in? Probably..

My cent is, fully functional application is not required here. Personally ,if I want to browse Facebook, I prefer to open it on new browser.

But just like Flickr & Wordpress, put the most frequently used functions such as ‘tweeting’ for Twitter or posting status update to Facebook is sufficient. Others have done it (even Wordpress has such plugins), so to company like this size shouldn’t have no problem implement it if they wish (particularly twitter).

Yahoo own services

Beside these third party applications,  Yahoo should consider bring in its own application such as Yahoo Buzz, Yahoo Answer inside. Flickr is a good starter though. 

Don’t forget the root..

But the ultimate goal of Yahoo Mail is to provide excellent experience when doing email related task, which I feel not really up to the level compared to previous Yahoo Mail. In my observation, the emails are taking longer time to load (although sometime it is erroring) with and without any applications opened.

This is quite irritating, when thinking of all these hypes about the new features, but the ‘foundation’ of Yahoo Email itself has started to shows its weeknesses.

Nevertheless, this is still in beta, and we’ll see how it perfoms once its open to every Yahoo users.

zaki 19 December 2008 internet tool , , , , No Comments

Turning emails to Google Doc is a breeze now

Of all Gmail Labs features introduce recently, I feel this is the most useful one.No more copy and paste required, but with a single click on ‘Create a document‘ shown below, your email turns to Google Doc automatically & nicely formatted too.

As usual you have to enable this feature via ‘Setting’ - ‘Gmail Lab’ - click on enable radio button next to ‘Create a Document‘.

Testing it on SearchEngineCap and PBBank email, it were formatted nicely.

Btw, do you think this will encourage plagiarism?

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zaki 18 December 2008 internet tool , , , 1 Comment

Google Reader glitch adding Delicious favorites to my feed

I spot something odd in my Google Reader this morning. There are ‘uninvited’ contents on Blogjer’s feed, which appear to be my Delicious’s favorites.

I’ve no ideas why it is there, when Blogjer’s feed in Bloglines have no such contents.

So I would like to apologizes to all my RSS subscribers on Google Reader or email subscriber if you happen to see this. I’ve no answer about it at the moment, but I believe there is a glitch in Google Reader that cause this.

I’ll be back once I got the answer. Let me know if any of you seeing this.

Blogjer’s feed in Google Reader
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Blogjer’s feed in Bloglines
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zaki 18 December 2008 internet tool , , , No Comments

Yahoo Mail get social touch & applications

There are 2 major enhancements on Yahoo Mail recently.

My Connection

The first one is the integration of Yahoo Mail with ‘My Connection‘ which is accessible only via Yahoo Profile before.  If you familiar with social networking sites such as Facebook or Linkedin, the principal behind it is same. It just the way that you’re making a connection (be friend) with other Yahoo accounts holders. Just like other social networking sites, you can adds and invite friend to be your connection and interacting each other.

By the time I write this post, I can already see it on my Yahoo Mail’s ‘Welcome’ page. It sit on the top of the page, instead of top Yahoo News which now moved to the bottom.

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The second enhancement is obviously the most interesting one, although currently only available to limited ‘power users’.

From within Yahoo Mail, user will be able to add and use application such Flickr. Even Wordpress is said going to be here later (posting from Yahoo Mail??). The integration will enable user to use this application from within Yahoo Mail, and whenever needed, to send/share such as the picture(if you use Flickr) to peers/friend with few clicks.

The concept more less similar like what Gmail did,  which slowly integrating its application such as Google Doc to allow seamlessly interaction between the app. But Yahoo Mail has slight advantage over Gmail (at the moment) because Yahoo Mail is opening it doors to third party applications as well.

Despite the uncertainty in Yahoo, it looks like the engineers are never dried of ideas for a new innovation. Well done!

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zaki 17 December 2008 internet tool , , , 1 Comment

Facebook’s Next Generation Application contest winners

The 5 grand winners of Facebook’s next generation applications contestn was announced recently. Each winners received $250,000 from fbFund to further improving and creating better Facebook application. They are -

Groupcards

Mousehunt 

Weddingbooks

Wildfire 

Kontagent 

 

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zaki 16 December 2008 socialize & media , , 2 Comments
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