Yahoo is introducing a slew of new applications that aim to complement its free webmail service today. Since December last year, Yahoo features a number of third-party applications inside Yahoo Mail, such as Xoopit, Flickr and Flixster, all in a good effort to reduce the amount of websites you need to visit as well as time you need to spend to perform certain task related to communicating with your friends, relatives or co-workers.
Starting today, that list includes other tools like online payment handling platform PayPal, basic photo editor Picnik, Xoopit service MyPhotos and file sharing application Zumo Drive. If you already have access to the applications Yahoo brought to Yahoo Mail back in December, you’ll notice several of the apps the next time you log in, located along the left side of your inbox.
Thanks to the integration, Yahoo mail users get access to a number of useful services without the need to leave the communication interface. That way, Yahoo intends to increase the stickiness of one of its core products, in a relative, open-minded way. After all, users now don’t need to leave the interface to e.g. crop photos, transfer money, share large attachments with others, and so on, and Yahoo is not restricting itself to using or building proprietary tools.
Gmail, your turn.
In related news, Yahoo is also adding a good number of OpenSocial applications to MyYahoo today.
More on today’s Yahoo Mail announcements in this quirky video:
didn’t watch the video, connection draggy right now,
there’s an mobile text thing on the left, and yes I still use classic
just marked myself invisible and clicked hide lol
web is getting more and more bulky kiss
Picnik is the only one I actually want within Gmail.
more yahoo peanut butter. see your photos in mail. read your news in mail. see your mail on your news page. just integrate ymail into flickr and you’ve come full-circle. what yahoo won’t tell you is that their late-adopter lagging-edge audience of fifty-somethings doesn’t give a poop about using mint in ymail…indeed none of them has ever heard of mint
Hey, I use Yahoo! And I am not fifty-something! Not even half that age, and I am more than happy with Yahoo Mail!
Agreed. I have tried both and think Yahoo Mail is infinitely better. I don’t WANT my emails grouped together, it’s not convenient that way.
A good idea, though it may be too late to stop people from migrating to gmail (or POP3 apps).
I figure that if they wanted to be on gmail, they would be there by now…
Yahoo Mail has 300m users. What’s Gmail? 40m?
Yahoo have added some nice things. But I am still sticking with Gmail as my main e-mail ID.
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I only yahoo. I think its great that I dont have to go anywhere else when I can just add it to my yahoo page.
Robin, any info on the deal yahoo cut out with the partners?
Even after these updates to YMail, they lag behind GMail. I use the free POP and SMTP functions of GMail to bring that mail down to Thunderbird my PC and archive it. With YMail I’d have to pay to get the POP and SMTP functionality that’s free with Google. There is an add-on for email clients like Thunderbird called WebMail, but it is a work-around and isn’t reliable.
When is YMail going to offer the POP and SMTP functionality for free, like GMail has since it came out?
I guess they’re pushing for people who don’t want POP and SMTP access, but rather use their webmail app, and hence use all these new features.
why should they give it away? It’s a business…
Hey Yahoo mail Is Already offering free pop
Can you beat the less by doing more on the net?
Am I in the wrong place???? Not a hateful comment or opinion.
Very nice, thanks Robin.
Gmail next? No way. Google will just build this into the Wave.
Yes, it will be very exciting to see Google’s response in Wave… in 2011. I’m not holding my breath.