Yahoo! lays out plans for Inbox app integration

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Yahoo! lays out plans for Inbox app integration

by Brad Linder Dec 15th 2008

Yahoo! has been talking about plans to make its web-based email inbox smarter and more social by integrating other web services for months. Now the company is spelling out what that means a bit more clearly. VentureBeat reports the company held an event today where it showed off a demo of the next generation email inbox with a new sidebar with support for web applications like WordPress, Xoopit, and Flixter.

The new Yahoo! Mail will also feature Flickr integration, allowing users to share photos by logging into their Flickr accounts from their email inbox. Yahoo! Mail will also be able to mine your personal data to figure out who your closest contacts are. It will then be able to prioritize emails from those contacts.

Yahoo! will also be rolling out a new version of the Yahoo! Toolbar with access to your web applications and adding a new section to the My Yahoo! homepage where you can access the same apps. TechCrunch snagged an image of the new toolbar, which is scheduled for a beta release next week.

Update: And the official announcement is up on the Yahoo! Mail blog. Check out a video demo of the new Yahoo! Mail after the break.

Tags: my-yahoo, yahoo-mail, yahoo-toolbar

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rich said 7:58PM on 12-17-2008

I wish they would either knock this crap off or just give us the option of turning it off. They put the contact thing in there yesterday and its annoying as hell.

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