It's often interesting to learn about a product or service's users - particularly when you are one. Maybe you'll find that your stylish small car is popular with old ladies, for example. Or that your taste in TV shows mirrors that of eight-year-old boys. Anyway, Rapleaf recently took a look at this concept as it applies to email.
Yahoo is launching a new Yahoo Mail ad unit called "Tandem," to be reserved for "the most creative" non-profit campaign. The company has partnered with the Ad Council to launch the initiative, which it refers to as "Create for a Cause."
Update: Yahoo turned on the following apps in Yahoo Mail today: Evite, Pingg and drop.io.
Original Article: Yahoo made a few announcements today. Among them were new versions of Search, Messenger, and Mail. You can read about Search and Messenger here and here respectively. Now let's talk about the new Yahoo Mail.
Yahoo announced today that users of Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo, Yahoo Connected TV and Zimbra email will find a number of new third-party apps and widgets that will give them quicker access to things they do online everyday.
To put this in perspective, Yahoo says that in the US, an average of 85 sites are visited per person, per month. The idea is that if you use these apps and widgets on Yahoo sites, you won't have to go to all of those other sites. The company offers the following slideshow:
Gmail will now let you import email and contacts from other email providers like Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL (and a bunch more. Full list at the bottom of the article). This means that if you have an old account that you'd like to merge into your Gmail account, you can do so.
It also means (and this is what Google is pushing for) that users of other services can easily start new Gmail accounts without abandoning everything they have built up with another provider. Google is making the switch more enticing.
Social sites may be surpassing email in usage, but some fairly surprising data from Hitwise shows that visits to Gmail have surpassed visits to YouTube. The news comes at a time when Gmail can use some good news as complaints about downtime have recently mounted.
Even if Yahoo has fallen far behind Google in the search game, let's admit that the runner-up tries; updates and fresh features launch on a monthly (or weekly) basis. But new stats show that Yahoo Mail continues to be the company's real bread and butter in terms of traffic.
Google has announced four changes to Gmail's contact manager. Each change is a feature to enhance the service's usability.
Gmail is growing rapidly. Yahoo has long dominated the race against Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail, but Gmail is on pace to overthrow the other two. I got in touch with Yahoo Mail's VP John Kremer to try and find out some expectations Yahoo has for Yahoo Mail.
Yahoo announced that it now offers an SMS chat feature in its classic version of Yahoo Mail, something Gmail has been offering for several months, and Yahoo has been doing in its newer version since 2007. Google has offered SMS in its chat since October, and Chat in general for quite some time. They have also launched voice and video chat recently.
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