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Yahoo! Life: Yahoo! Mail is getting social
A few months ago, we heard a rumor that Yahoo! was developing a new social network platform based around the internet portal's popular email client. This week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang gave a sneak peek at Yahoo! Life, or the service formerly known as Inbox 2.0.The email inbox is at the core of Yahoo! Life, and you can communicate with your email contacts in a number of ways. Yahoo! will put your incoming email messages in order based on its understanding of which contacts are the most important to you. You'll be able to access other Yahoo! services including Yahoo! Maps and Messenger. The ultimate goal is to have Yahoo! service work together so that for example if you have receive an email asking for a good place to eat, you can drag it into a map to get suggestions.
You'll also be able to access third party applications and services like Evite and MySpace.
Update: It turns out the new services are not called Yahoo! Life. The company has yet to settle on a name, but CEO Jerry Yang referred to the concept during his CES presentation as "Life with an exclamation point."
[via TechCrunch]
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Joe Beaulaurier said 9:15AM on 1-09-2008
Hopefully the young'ns developing this platform will realize not everyone is immersed up to their necks in social media sites and they don't want to take the time to tell the platform which email gets priority. They just want to get their email as they have been.
Build in the ability to disable what you don't want as well as enable applications to be developed for it and you will have a winner.
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