Comments on: Yahoo Mail’s New App Platform: A Boon for Xoopit and Other Productivity Add-Ons

By: Why Did Google Let Yahoo Run Off With Xoopit? | Newsfed - Aggregate local and tech stories with related videos and tweets!

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:02:55 +0000

[...] enough, Xoopit was also a featured app on the Yahoo Mail applications platform since the latter debuted last December, but I can’t help but thinking it should have been Mountain View pulling in [...]

By: Why Did Google Let Yahoo Run Off With Xoopit?

Why Did Google Let Yahoo Run Off With Xoopit? — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:50:46 +0000

By: Xoopit, ketika Gmail dan Facebook bersatu « adisetiya

Xoopit, ketika Gmail dan Facebook bersatu « adisetiya — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:05:13 +0000

[...] mengawinkan Gmail dan facebook, Xoopit juga merambah yahoomail. Applikasi API terbaru dari Yahoomail memungkinkan untuk terjadi, mungkin belum, jadi sabar aja jika anda pengguna setia Yahoomail. Atau [...]

By: Xoopit Marries Facebook Status Updates With Gmail

Xoopit Marries Facebook Status Updates With Gmail — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:34:37 +0000

[...] appear that the Xoopit-Facebook feature is available to Yahoo Mail users but the Yahoo and Xoopit may not be far away from developing a Gmail-like relationship with Yahoo, as we wrote about late last [...]

By: frankps » Trends of 2009

frankps » Trends of 2009 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:54:33 +0000

[...] For a more visual presentation, some screenshots of Mr. Yang’s demo are available at ZDNet, and a bit more information about the new Yahoo Mail is available at TechCrunch (1 and 2). [...]

By: Yahoo! Open Strategy começa a ser integrado - Google Discovery

Yahoo! Open Strategy começa a ser integrado - Google Discovery — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:59:18 +0000

[...] Imagem: TechCrunch [...]

By: Andy Hilal

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:10:16 +0000

How is this not a story? Yahoo! Mail is one of the most-used platforms online and they’re opening up to third parties. A couple of well-fit examples are mentioned… what’s up with the outrage?

By: 2pad needs to chill

2pad needs to chill — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:40:09 +0000

2pad guys spamming twitter and boards with comments under different IDs. Dudes, give it a rest!

By: David

David — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:35:05 +0000

It’s interesting this just came out. 2pad has been mining photos from emails for months now. But works on all the email platforms as an independent application..

By: Ginrod

Ginrod — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:31:14 +0000

Xoopit is catching up with 2pad, whose application has been working with Yahoo! for months and we also work with Hotmail and Aol and Mobileme since Techcrunch 50.

By: Zee

Zee — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:12:14 +0000

You bet it hurts. That’s the Nature Boy. You don’t want to mess with the nature boy…unless you have Mr. Perfect in your corner brining the Perfect-Plex.

By: Dror

Dror — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:17:01 +0000

Am I biased, or are 6zap’s Zcounts
http://www.6zap.com/zcounts/
more interesting in the email arena?
I tried to get Techcrunch to write about this, but either they didn’t think it was news worthy enough, or they’re just inundated with stories.
Still, I don’t know of anywhere else that you can create email aliases on the fly the way you can with Zcounts.

By: Email is Old News | Sherwinpedia

Email is Old News | Sherwinpedia — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:31:41 +0000

[...] life for the past 4 or 5 years, so I for one am going to stick with it, even as Yahoo rolls out a rather attractive email platform that’s open to third party applications. In that sense, I don’t think that there will [...]

By: Yahoo Mail’s New App Platform: A Boon for Xoopit and Other Productivity Add-Ons at PRADA

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:44:16 +0000

[...] 轉自TechCrunch [...]

By: JK

JK — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:01:28 +0000

Yahoo users have to authorize the Xoopit application and explicitly give Xoopit permission to access email content. Furthermore no username or password is collected. The application uses a combination of BBAuth and OAuth to handle authorization and authentication on the backend and frontend respectively. Its a great model for webmail providers to allow users to add applications and authorize access to content where they want.

By: Yahoo Mail to become more social with an opened up platform - India Broadband Forum

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:35:56 +0000

[...] Yahoo Mail to become more social with an opened up platform Yahoo Mail’s New App Platform: A Boon for Xoopit and Other Productivity Add-Ons it sure looks useful to heavy users of yahoo mail. __________________ Buy, Sell, Barter stuff [...]

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:40:53 +0000

That looks like it hurts

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:04:22 +0000

Hey BT,

I get your point, but what I am more worried is the fact that Yahoo is now giving 3P applications potential access to my emails, whether I install these applications or not.

Yahoo Mail’s application platform seems similar to Facebook’s application platform at first glance, but it’s not. I can control what I put on my Facebook account, so what an application developer could access is relatively limited.

I don’t have 100% over control what type of “content” these applications will have access to. If my wife emails me her SSN or if my friend emails me an embarrassing photo, these 3P application could potentially access these. Mail data is a lot more sensitive then social graph. That’s what I am concerned about.

If the privacy control and the security mechanism in place for the Yahoo Mail application platform is not air tight, then whether I install a 3P application or not will not necessarily keep my email content safe from said developer. Facebook, for instance, does not allow developers to retrieve contact information via its APIs since they are deemed as “sensitive user information”. Everything about my mail account (address book, emails, attachments, etc.) are more sensitive than what Facebook considers “sensitive”.

By: BitterTwitterer

BitterTwitterer — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:46:32 +0000

Howard, this is the web, and you have free will. I find this the same issue as using any service that uses POP3 or IMAP to consolidate mail (like Zimbra, etc.). I will make the judgement call on a case by case basis. In the case of Xoopit, since it is using a Yahoo-supplied security framework that isn’t web scraping using my ID and Password (from what I saw in the demo), I think it is better than most.

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:16:12 +0000

What about privacy concern? Does anybody else find it scary that Xoopit is scraping through your email and opening attachments? What kind of privacy model is in place for the Yahoo mail application platform?

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:58:27 +0000

If you call that covering the story, it’s a piss-poor job.

I think he has you in a figure-four leglock on that one. Time to tap out.

http://www.yout...feature=related

By: D. Jax89

D. Jax89 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:54:09 +0000

Same thing happened to my GF. She had the new Yahoo homepage, which annoyed her, and this afternoon she was telling me her email changed a bit (it must be this feature/flaw).

Both the beta homepage and mail do not have a “go back to old version” button. So I just showed her how to switch to Google and she’s a happy camper

By: magnusdopus

magnusdopus — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:31:10 +0000

Ugh, somebody activated some new e-mail functionality on my Yahoo account. (Looks like version 1 of their social networking foray.) It might be this stuff you mentioned above. Whatever the case, my e-mail is now ridiculously slow.

I miss the days when Yahoo was a good company and asked if you wanted to use their beta functionality.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:11:57 +0000

typo in penultimate paragraph – change “their” to “there”.
Otherwise v interesting post.

By: gary

gary — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:53:28 +0000

Hey Mark, gotta agree with Jerry on this one. That story is about a taco truck sideshow. It would have behooved you guys to cover which groups were cut and the company’s plans now that they put some people out of a job. What’s different at Yahoo now?

The taco thing was a cute distraction, but hardly qualifies as covering the real story IMO.