RSSUpgrade Coming to Yahoo Web Mail
By Ed Oswald | Published June 28, 2005, 11:47 AM
Yahoo said on Monday that a new beta version of its Web e-mail service would be launched in the next two months. The site revision adds technologies that the company gained from its purchase of Oddpost, such as drag and drop organization of mail, an instant preview pane, and upgraded search capabilities.
The beta version of the site will only be rolled out to a select group of testers. No target date for widespread release has been set as of yet, according to company officials. Yahoo, which is the top provider of web based e-mail in the United States, counts some 60 million unique users according to research firm comScore.
Outpost is a firewall
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That's what I was thinking..."what, have they branched into email too?"
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It's Oddpost, not Outpost.
http://www.oddpost.com/
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....that the company gained from its purchase of Outpost, such as drag and drop organization of mail....
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It's just shameful that whenever they do a rewrite of their code, they *still* can't find the time to properly support Opera. Once things are set in stone, fine, it's difficult to change, but if they're changing things anyway, how difficult can it be to fire up Optool and check stuff out?
Optool: http://newblog.fallingbe.../05/optool_21_beta.html
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I agree. Yahoo should support as many platforms as possible and it is things like leaving Opera (and Firefox for the advanced formatting features IIRC) out in the cold that will only hurt them in the long run.
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I concur re supporting varied platforms; and re Opera-- it's just so fast & gets along w/ windows so well-- both IE & Firefox are huge system hogs and/or memory leakers; in fact, i've had both of those freeze, while opera simultaneously keeps on running. Firefox i can then fix by removing most extensions, but what's the point of that..
And a bit further off-topic: i'd be curious of Yahoo's intentions with acquiree Dialpad-- if they're smart, they'll offer unlimited free & ad-supported voip, with free fax & voice mail going straight into their webmail inbox.
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