Over the weekend, Yahoo Mail Beta had become official while removing the Beta label and adding more usable feature with the most important one – Email-to-SMS, allowing people to integrate web & mobile into one interface. This will allow many parents who are not into mobile features to communicate with their kids / send reminders and more.

From the official announcement:

We already have great integrated instant messaging features in Yahoo! Mail, so adding text messaging was a natural next step. It’s an increasingly popular way to keep in touch, especially among younger users. In fact, 69% of US mobile phone users between the ages of 18-39 use text messaging (Harris Interactive, June 2006), and half of Americans age 18-25 say they sent or received a text message over the phone in the past day (Pew Research Center, January 2007).

Other interesting features added are shortcuts (hovered keywords pop-up a map, address, contact info, etc) and more, with the only thing not implemented (yet) is free pop3 access which is offered for $20 a year and for free by GMail.

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Yahoo Mail is Gets a Boost and Leaves Beta

According to the official post, MSN introduced three new features that help people find faces, portraits and black and white images. We tested the different filters on a recent media “figure”, here is how it works:

1. without the new features – lindsay lohan
2. with new face filtering on – lindsay lohan filter:face
3. with new portrait filtering on – lindsay lohan filter:portrait
4. with new black and white filtering on – lindsay lohan filter:bw

Seems to work pretty good, plus I really like the quick thumb resize option allowing you to view more/less images on each page. Here’s a bw example:

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New MSN Features Identifies Faces and More