I loaded Gmail tonight and was welcomed with a notice that there’s been a little bit of an interface change. They’ve added some AJAXy ability to drag and drop messages onto your defined labels to label the messages.

You can see the little handles on each message line on the far left side of the message. You can then drag the message on top of the label you want to apply to the message. Not the major improvement from their perspective, but I really like the fact they moved the labels up to be positioned right under the standard groupings of …read more

Yahoo announced today the acquizition Zimbra, an open-source email solotions & collaboration solutions provider, for $350 million in cash.
Zimbra develops email servers as well as hosted solutions for organizations, businesses and universities. This purchase was meant in order to expand Yahoo’s capabilities to offer services “in universities, businesses and through ISPs by enabling organizations to host e-mail on or off premises with their own domain.”

Yahoo search suggestions, which used to be an exclusive feature on the Firefox toolbar, is now available via Yahoo.com. According to the announcement, you will be suggested with related terms as you type your query. For example when searching for Las Vegas, Yahoo suggests several functions in Las Vegas… This feature has been available on Google for a while now and I am not sure what ranking of the different suggestions is based upon (besides the word offcourse).

To Disable this feature you can simply click on “Disable” in the suggestion box or at the “More” drop down.