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MyYahoo updates with POP Mail and Gmail modules
If you are a big fan of custom start pages like the new MyYahoo, and a user of a POP mail account, you might get excited about a new feature Yahoo has added.
In iGoogle, you can only pull in your Gmail account, well, Yahoo thought hey, why not, let's make it so that any mail account can get imported into our customers start pages in the new MyYahoo. So they came out with the POP Mail module that launched yesterday; Pull in mail from any mail account, Yahoo or not, as long as it supports POP.
Yahoo also added in a Gmail module, because hey why not allow Google's Gmail users the ability to pull in their mail. If you want to get hooked up with the new My Yahoo beta that serves this content, sign up for an upgrade if you haven't already, and you'll be on your way. The page is clean and as easy to use at Netvibes. However, even though I enjoyed having the Gmail/POP modules preview my emails, when emails are clicked out to read more, you will have to sign into your email account. A little hassle, but that could be easily forgotten about. Yahoo is on their way to building a serious contender here, and it's definitely one you might want to consider. Netvibes is still a leader in this space, and is for sure a location that Yahoo and other "start pages" want to study when finding out what works, especially when it comes to a clean and uncluttered space. In other words, if My Yahoo got rid of that giant ad, and tightened up the top of the page so that we could fit in more content, it might get a little higher on the list.
MyYahoo has also updated their Scoreboard, Weather and Shopping modules.
After spending the better part of an hour on 
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Egan Foote said 3:31PM on 6-14-2007
"In iGoogle, you can only pull in your Gmail account, well, Yahoo thought hey, why not, let's make it so that any mail account can get imported into our customers start pages in the new MyYahoo."
Not technically true. Because Gmail has support for retrieving POP accounts, putting your Gmail account on your iGoogle page accomplishes the same thing.
Egan, out.
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iamhoff said 7:03PM on 6-14-2007
Yahoo also updated their calendar feature. I've been using My Yahoo Beta for a while (I had 4 different Yahoo mail accounts before Gmail came around), and I like it. The only thing that I didn't like (and I didn't realize it until I started playing with Netvibes and iGoogle) was that there didn't seem to be too many widgets that I could play with. I agree on losing that stupid ad, but I like the Message Center feature as a way to combine widgets and modules without taking up too much space. Now which do I use? One of my 4 yahoo accounts, my iGoogle, Netvibes, or even a Windows Live account I set up? BTW, the Windows Live is fine, but very plain like the original Google homepage. Too many farking choices!
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Chris Gilmer said 9:54AM on 6-15-2007
iamhoff - a agree way to many choices! And good ones too! Personally i
use Netvibes far more than any of the other ones. It has that nice
clean interface that i can jam pack with goodies, without being
distracted by ads and wasted space.
Egan - true. iGoogle can do this through the use of 3rd party
modules. Yahoo is bringing in Gmail through a module that their team
has created and made available. (to the best of my knowledge)
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