RSSYahoo Launches PhotoMail Beta
By Ed Oswald | Published May 26, 2005, 12:42 PM
Yahoo on Thursday rolled out a beta version of a new service called PhotoMail, which will allow users to put up to 300 pictures in a single e-mail and provides unlimited storage space for users.
The company says that the new application will simplify the process of adding photos to messages. Since there is a higher limit to the amount of photos that can be attached to e-mail versus rivals Hotmail or AOL Mail, Yahoo says it is providing more freedom in mailing photos.
PhotoMail users will be able to perform basic edits they upload to the service. For example, a user could rotate a picture to make sure it displays it correctly for pictures taken in landscape view.
Since only thumbnails of the pictures are sent in the actual e-mail, there is little chance that an e-mail would be rejected due to size limitations of incoming e-mail. Each thumbnail is only about five kilobytes. The larger versions of the pictures would reside on Yahoo's servers.
Use of PhotoMail requires Yahoo's Web based mail service. Drag and drop functionality will allow the user to drag an image from his hard drive into a small application offered by Yahoo, which will create the e-mail.
Yahoo hopes that PhotoMail lures more users to its properties. Currently, Yahoo has the largest Web-based e-mail service, with 64 million monthly users. AOL and Hotmail are a close second and third, according to ComScore Media-Metrix.
Also announced Thursday by Yahoo was the introduction of its Web mail service in six additional countries: Poland, Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia.
Sirs, I've uploaded Yahoo's new service - PhotoMail Beta and tested it's functions with satisfication. Only, when I scanned a sheet of documents in Chinese and sent it to my friends, they complained that it is unclear, so small in picture and can't be enlarged as before by sending it as a file which I have praticed for a long time before I use PhotoMail Beta, I tried to use the old method but failed, I tried to stop using PhotoMail Beta, but I don't know how to return to normal Yahoo Mail, Please help by email to my address asap. thanks.
William Ma
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|Yahoo's new initiative of helping Yahoo users to send only the 5 kB thumbnails of pictures and sending several photos in one attachment is a very welcome idea. Laudable indeed! Keep it up and we look forward to more innovations in future.
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|for me it is like the deam come true since i have great faith in yahoos integrity and security in using mail services.with this new beta service it will pave a way for so far difficult or time consuming job to send a large album with high resoltion or size.i wish all the best to the yahoo team for innovations and thier concerns for thier users.
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|A very longtime yahoo user here and the program works very well in my opinion. Although there is an "error" each time I try to send an email with the photos embedded (like a time out error), the emails go thru fine. I tested it with a few relatives who do not have yahoo accounts just to see if it worked for them too, and they said it worked perfect on their end. I assume the send "error" will be corrected since we are still in beta on this
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|I have not yet been able to make the photomail works. Each time I attempt to add a photo to my email, it tells me I have an error and I get a Microsoft message that says that there has been an error and my browser has to close...........? If they make it work, it will be GREAT!!
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|I gather from this article that it will be an application as opposed to an ActiveX module or anything entirely web based?
Personally, I think Yahoo! mail is great, I even pay for the Mail Plus just to get it without ads. If this will allow me to put all my photos up somewhere, it'll be like all my christmases coming at once! The 30Mb ad-ridden Yahoo! Photos really isn't sufficient when you're camera is taking photos that are 1.5Mb+ each and you want to share the high quality images.
Still, I'm a Yahoo! fan, so I am biased. :)
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|Yahoo! really does listen to customers and is not like Microsoft atll. I get better mail support from yahoo! than my ISP (Etisalat) in United Arab Emirates. Google... more hype than usefull to be honest. Sadly some people are happy with 250MB space
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|Interesting this is launched after two days of intense Flickr downtime/maintenance.
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