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Yahoo! Released Free @ymail.com, Have You Got Yourself One?

hongkiat — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:16:16 +0000

Are you using yourname@gmail.com by Google? If you are, chances are you might be interested in grabbing yourname@ymail.com by Yahoo! too. Yahoo! has recently released 1 new mailbox – ymail.com. it’s new fresh so if you’d like to get yourname@ymail.com (especially if it’s a common english name like Sarah, Mark, etc) you better do it quick.

Apart from ymail, folks at Yahoo! are also releasing @rocketmail.com, a company they acquired way back in 1997. So to sum things up, Yahoo! now offers free mailbox in @yahoo.com, @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com.

Yahoo Launches Web Based Messenger

hongkiat — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:52:47 +0000

Microsoft have their web messenger, Gtalk integrates an application-less chatting in Gmail and now, Yahoo! has just catches up with its rivals with the launched of Yahoo! Web Messenger Beta.

Yahoo! Web Messenger is purely based on Flash 9 and according to TechCrunch, it is integrated with MSN Messenger and that means you can add Live/MSN Messenger contacts to your Yahoo! friends list. I’m not really a fan of Yahoo! Messenger but this definitely a good news for Yahoo IM users and those who are unable to install IM applications in their computers.

How to have 2 IDs sharing same Yahoo mailbox

hongkiat — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:22:29 +0000

Let’s say you have a Yahoo! email account yourcompany@yahoo.com. Now you can create another email ID (say, yourname@yahoo.com), have it somehow linked and check mails under one inbox. Here’s how you can do it:

Login to your current Yahoo! email account.
Paste these codes (Right click -> Copy link location) in Location bar and hit enter.
Choose your second Yahoo! ID
Done!

How to tell if it’s working?

Send an email to both yourcompany@yahoo.com and yourname@yahoo.com. You should see both emails arriving in the same inbox.

via techlive

Yahoo gives infinity mail storage, GMail goes infinity plus one

hongkiat — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:02:04 +0000

The fight will never end and its getting more and more interesting. Not long after Yahoo announced they will soon implement unlimited mail storage in their Yahoo! Mail, Google announced on 2nd of April that Gmail customers will soon have their email storage space increased to “infinity” plus one.

Creator of this idea, Greg Tomkins an Google engineer explains how he came up with such idea

“I was out in the yard when my kids ran up to me yelling at each other. My son said to my daughter, ‘I hate you to infinity.’ She replied, ‘I hate you to infinity plus one.’ And right then I knew I had the solution to competing with unlimited storage,” said Tomkins.

So just how this “infinity” plus one works?

Tomkins also said that they would be using new RAID technologies which allow them to store copies of e-mail in parallel universes. This means that if their servers crash they will be able to recover your data from another universe where they haven’t.
“Once your Yahoo e-mail box is full, you’ll be able to transfer it to Gmail and add one more message,” said Tomkins. “Those Yahoos will have a hard time beating that.”

How Yahoo react back to this “infinity” plus one works? They say:

“We will be making an announcement shortly about our million-trillion-billion infinity storage,” and added, “Neener, neener, neener.”

I say:

Its really nice to sit back and enjoy as an end-user!

via bbspot

Yahoo Mail with Unlimited Email Storage

hongkiat — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:48:39 +0000

Shockingly excited news for existing Yahoo email users. Starting from May 2007, limited storage space in Yahoo mail will be voided and everyone will enjoy UNLIMITED email storage. According to TechCrunch, this will not only affect Yahoo mail beta users, but all. Read what John Kremer (Yahoo! Mail vice president) has to say.

Yahoo Mail (250Mil users) is now so much ahead compared to Live.com Mail (228Mil) and Google GMail (51Mil users) after announcing their unlimited email storage but however I think I’m staying with Gmail. Are you going for a change?

Yahoo and Google, who’s copying who?

hongkiat — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:46:59 +0000

I was reading Jeremy’s blog and the topic “Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!?” caught my attention. Jeremy claimed that Google slightly googlify an interface Yahoo! did for IE7 marketing. Take a look at the interface did by both Yahoo! and Google for IE7 marketing.

Yahoo’s version

Google’s version

Yahoo! had personally double checked with Microsoft and Microsoft has not been providing template for this. It seems so much like Google is duplicating, from content to layout, but when I checkout Google’s IE7 page, it was already changed to this.

Similar right? It seems like Google is fast in recovering the situation. Then I began to dig into this copying matter and search if there’s more of these cases around in the past.

And I found a Google’s fight back.

Apparently after a detailed research, Google published their sponsored ad like this. Pastel boxes with a darker border on the right-hand side of the search results.

No long after that, Yahoo! changed their sponsored ads, adding dark border in pastel boxes and it look like this.

A while after that, Google decided to changed their ads UI and came out with something like this. Blue background for to ads and blue line seperating right side ads.

Yahoo! followed and came out with something similar.

So Jeremy, this seems like a tie huh? If Jeremy hates Google so much, why bother using google sponsored ads in the blog?