Yahoo Developing Major Overhaul Of Yahoo Mail
Yahoo said that it is developing a new version of its Mail service that has an advanced interface, so as to compete with rich offerings like Gmail. New features will include drag-and-drop for message organization (which requires using one of the du jour programming platforms, like AJAX), a preview pane, and more.
Among the new features are drag-and-drop message organization, a preview pane to view e-mails instantly, the ability to search e-mail headers, body and attachments, as well as viewing multiple e-mails in different windows.A Yahoo spokeswoman said that the upgraded version of Yahoo e-mail is being used internally and will be rolled out to a limited group of users in the next two months. It will be available to all Yahoo e-mail users once the company has finished its testing, Yahoo said.
Hopefully Yahoo will upgrade the email storage space for international users too soon.
Comment by Kim Stian Ervik | June 28, 2005
I want IMAPS, so I can use multiple mail clients on multiple systems and still access the same information using a webmail client.
Google’s POP3 service will only allow one download per message (still better than current Yahoo).
IMAP(S) would also allow my sent mail items to be sync’ed from various mail clients.
-richard
Comment by Richard Green | June 28, 2005
This interface (and much more) is already available on the internet at http://GoGUI.com
Comment by Joseph | June 28, 2005
[…] I want to come to Yahoo’s defense about something. A recent spate of reports says that Yahoo has been surpassed by various companies in terms of page views. Why is that relatively bogus? Because of Yahoo’s switch to AJAX for its mail. According to Alexa data, 49% of Yahoo visitors go to mail.yahoo.com. Everyone knows that I take Alexa data with a grain of salt, and that fraction may be high, but Yahoo definitely gets a lot of traffic from Yahoo Mail. Yahoo’s new mail system uses AJAX. And how do the metrics companies handle AJAX? Typically, not well. At SES San Jose recently, I asked a metrics company about how they count AJAX and the metrics person got a deer-in-the-headlights look on their face. What does your traffic look like if 30-50% of your page views are suddenly converted to AJAX where a page never really reloads? Your traffic doesn’t change and you may have happier and more users, but your metrics will plummet. By the way, that’s probably why you saw this post recently on the Yahoo! Anecdotal blog talking about page views. […]
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