Yahoo Mail to become more social with an opened up platform

Yahoo Mail to become more social with an opened up platform

Yahoo has announced that they are now making their webmail service Yahoo Mail more social.

It would get integration with various third party services to make it more useful for the users.

The users would also get the option to set up their accounts to show mails from selected users more prominently.

These users can be buddies from third party social networks or friends.

Yahoo Mail would also get integration from third party services. This is similar to how social networks have evolved in the recent times.

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang showcased some of the changes they are introducing in Yahoo Mail.

The company aims to make this service the scrapbook for your life.

Yahoo is also working on updating their browser toolbar application to make it more relevant to current times.

It would connect to third party services to bring more updates to the user.

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