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Yahoo! opens up Mail
Earlier today, Yahoo! announced that they will be allowing developers to build from the Yahoo! mail platform. A couple of excerpts from the release:
Yahoo Mail — used by 257 million people — is designed to spark development of thousands of new e-mail applications built not only by Yahoo engineers but by outside companies and individuals.
Chad Dickerson, head of the Sunnyvale company's software developer relations program, said he believed that the open approach to programming represented the biggest single Web software ever to be opened up for public development.
"Yahoo is a very large company but we can't build every applications that a user might want," Dickerson said in an interview at Yahoo headquarters. "You can imagine tens of thousands of niche applications (springing) from Yahoo Mail."
I am sure that once the code is available, we will see new extended versions of Yahoo! mail and lots of exciting mashups. This is similar to Amazon and eBay opening up and allowing developers to build off their platforms. I would love a mashup bringing together my webmail client for my domain mail plus Yahoo mail in the same window.
I really like Yahoo! Mail and in my opinion it is a much better product than its main competitor, Google Mail.
Why not use an invisible, personal code in members mail that they can use and share ONLY with self designated people they want to receive e-mail from, and in that way exclude all other mail from entering the mail box? Such mail without the designated code would automatically be classed, trash and filed in the trash bin. No code from the sender, no contact whatsoever! The code should be much like a “shared pin bank code”, shared ONLY between confidents, no one else. The code can be encypted and invisible. Yahoo can then sort out non coded mail from entering the mail box more easily.
Is this a good idea, or not? Frank