Google has nothing to fear even to have its nearest rival in web mail to advertise their email service right on its Gmail as shown on the below. Gmail still fresh from being the no. 1 web-mail in India, which is previously Yahoo Mail strong hold for very long time.
Being dominant in online advertising, Google is open for anyone to advertise their own service
On the other side, Yahoo is taking the bold move to have this advertisement, considering that, Gmail users are most likely use Yahoo Mail or Hotmail, including myself before. Yahoo Mail has received numerous enhancement over the year, including introducing AJAX based interface, open application and become even more social-like website, with hope to gain back the market share it is losing so far.
It is only this morning that I noticed Wordpress is no longer available from Open Apps section in Yahoo Mail when I tried to open it to make some demo to one of my friends. This is how it looks like last January.
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Not a big deal though, as it is still available via My Yahoo! Just feel a little bit disappointed because it is no longer there. When Open Apps is opened to public in January 2009, it does look promising, at least to me. The idea to let you do everything from within Yahoo Mail is cool idea, but the end result is far from satisfying.
Only few applications were introduced in the span of 6 months, which is not acceptable. There are 9 applications in Yahoo Mail, while My Yahoo has better number, with 24 applications. Numbers of app and app type tend to be the factor that influence users to use any ecosystem. The obvious example is how super successful iPhone App Store is with tens of thousands applications.
Taking numbers as the benchmark here, Open Apps certainly has failed to impress users.
One of the interesting features introduced in the new Internet Explore 8 is the web slices. Web slices allows you to keep update on your email, stocks or weather reports right from the Favorite Bar.
Yahoo Mail via the IE8 optimized for Yahoo has built the Yahoo Mail web slices functionality within the web browser itself. With Yahoo Mail web slices, any new emails coming into the mailbox can be viewed with a single click on the Yahoo Slices icon, without even leaving the page you’re currently in. List of emails will be displayed on top of that page. However to read the whole email, you’ll still need to go to the Yahoo Mail page.
Besides Yahoo Mail web slices, there are other web slices available on web slices gallery that you can try out. But even that, the number of websites implementing web slices is still small, but it might grow bigger, once the true potential of web slices are discovered in future, hopefully.
Download and install Internet Explore 8 optimized for Yahoo here.
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In case you didn’t already know, there will planned maintenance on Yahoo Mail this March 13th until March 14th. According to the announcement, certain users might experience problem using Yahoo Mail.
If you relied on Yahoo Mail for important things such as business or even dating purpose, make sure they have been informed in advance or user other email services as point of communication.
Head to customer service in case any problem arise.
If Yahoo Mail is human, by 25 he/she might have been graduated from university, start working or perhaps even getting married. 
I still remember Yahoo Mail (and other Yahoo services), being among the first websitse I discovered (what else great website at that time, right?) about 8-10 years ago on one small cyber cafe . I’m quite proud with my email account when most my peers don’t even heard of Yahoo back then. Of course it is totally different story now when 4-5 years kids has been exposed to the internet by their parent.
I never thought Yahoo Mail is that old. They have been around for a quarter century now. Where Yahoo Mail stand now? It got new looks (Yahoo Mail Classic is the old version) and started integrating 3rd party applications in it. Even YM is available inside it now.
But the future doesn’t looks very much in favor to Yahoo Mail, at least at the moment. Ok, let’s not spoil Yahoo Mail birthday post today. So to Yahoo Mail, keep up the good work!
