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Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo Mail goes Xobni

I have Xobni hands-on last year that pretty amazing .  For those that need introduction, Xobni is Outlook plugin that make your Outlooks works betters and filling up what Outlook’s lacking of such as providing faster search, depth contact information, emails stat and etc.

The latest release 1.6.3 bring more features to Xobni, particularly the integration with Facebook, Linked In, Yahoo Mail and Skype.

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The integration of Facebook and Linked make socialize with your contact easier. Clicking on any email, will automatically checking if the email address is available in Facebook.

If it does, the brief info of the Facebook’s account belong to that email address, will be shown at the right sidebar. And if it is one of your friend, it shows the photos as well.

If no account registered under that email address , it will suggest other people based on the first name and last name.

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Although Yahoo Mail doesn’t support IMAP or POP setup for its free email account (except Yahoo Plus), Xobni made  it possible searching any Yahoo emails from Outlook (require indexing)

After all emails were indexed, utilize Xobni search function to search Yahoo emails from Outlook. The search result shown on the Xobni sidebar which Yahoo emails are marked with tiny Yahoo logo on it.

Clicking on the email, will shows further detail. Each emails have links to the full text version, which will be shown on web browser.

More info can be found here

Admin 18 January 2009 Software , , , , , 2 Comments

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.

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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.

Admin 19 December 2008 internet tool , , , , , 1 Comment

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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Admin 17 December 2008 internet tool , , , 1 Comment

Yahoo Mail got stationery

How many people do you think will utilize the new Yahoo Mail’s Stationery such as below. Definitely no-no for formal communication right?

For fun or humor, that might works. But other than that, I see it as cosmetic feature, just like the Gmail Theme

If you think otherwise, get it on.

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Admin 10 December 2008 internet tool , , 7 Comments

Sending SMSes from Yahoo Mail, it’s real

There are a lot of buzz about how to send SMSes from Gmail, which eventually was pulled back due to some issues.

Unlike Gmail’s sms service, Yahoo SMS service works like charm. It works from Yahoo Mail, and is available for lucky users from countries, among others are Malaysia , Indonesia, India , US and etc.

Just follow the steps below, and you’re ready to send your first free SMS today!

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Credit: Yahoo

Admin 23 November 2008 Technology , , , , 14 Comments
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