Yahoo Mail to Get Third-Party Applications [Yahoo]

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The beta version of Yahoo Mail is getting third-party applications like Xoopit, WordPress, Flixster, and Flickr—and other Yahoo products are also seeing upgrades, TechCrunch reports.

In what at first appears to be an answer to Gmail Labs, Yahoo Mail is getting third-party apps that let you do things like attach one of your Flickr images to a new messages easily. More interestingly, the new "social" Yahoo Mail will be able to prioritize your incoming email by the people with whom you have an established relationship. TechCrunch writes:

When you view your inbox, you can choose to view messages from just your “connections”, letting you filter out all of the email that ostensibly means less to you. Contacts (which includes everyone in your address book) are different than connections, which are suggested by Yahoo’s algorithm and explicitly identified by users. Invitations to connect are either generated by Yahoo’s algorithm or sent manually by your contacts. Connections appear to be like “friendships” on social networks like MySpace and Facebook, but Yahoo is insisting that the relationships will be used in a variety of ways not found on traditional social networks (such as this mail filtering).
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Sounds pretty saucy. While I'm not yet seeing the updates, reportedly they are rolling out today on the new version of Y! Mail. The Yahoo homepage, Toolbar, My Yahoo, and Yahoo TV and Music are also seeing revamps, getting open API's for third-party developers, and social features. Yahoo Announces Next Steps in Open Strategy [TechCrunch]



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