I opened my Yahoo! Mail page this evening to check my email and noticed there’s a whole new version of interface. Like everyone else they’re providing the opportunity to do more "social" stuff like updating a status. The general appearance and layout has been cleaned up and sharpened a bit too.

I’m still working on some in-depth feature improvements. Texting isn’t new, unless I can get it to really work this time then that would be an improvement. The discussion about what’s new with social networking stuff included a twitter icon and YouTube, but still working on what’s involved in that …read more

There seems to be quite a bit of development going on in the Instant Messaging arenas on a variety of different fronts. You’ve got your individual clients that are always releasing updates. Third party clients that aggregate the individual platforms to a single interface and buddy list. Then you have the website applications that aggregate the individuals to a web page interface with no software to download.

imo.im is the latter and have provided a very simple interface to combine your IM clients onto the web. I tried it out and it does a good job of quickly connecting to your …read more

I just received an email this morning letting me know that my Yahoo! Briefcase will be closing its doors and tossing my files. So I spent a few minutes downloading them and now I get to go through them. Doubt there’s anything on there I needed since I haven’t used them in forever.
Dear Yahoo! Briefcase user,
We will be officially closing Yahoo! Briefcase on March 30, 2009. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to download your files back to your computer. You will need to take action before we close, after which any files remaining on Yahoo! Briefcase …read more

I thought it might be interesting to share a recent blog post by my friend Brian Layman, whom I work with at b5media. He has shared recently on his blog some correspondence between him and Yahoo concerning what appears to be a desired upgrade to one of their services.
Have you had this kind of service from Yahoo!? I’d love to hear your own stories, but let’s get this issue exposed and blown wide-open to as many people as possible.
Angry letter to Flickr/Yahoo by Brian Layman

Jake just let me know about a new site called Scour that lets you search the web like you normally would but adds a few different things to the mix:

Get results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN all together
Rate search results instantly
Get rewarded by searching with Scour

Why does it seem to be so hard for me to think about using any search engine other than Google as my default? I’m sure that’s exactly what Google is wanting me to think though isn’t it?
I like the concept, but one thing I immediately noticed that I don’t like is …read more

One of the earliest e-mail addresses I had was a Yahoo! Mail address and it’s been the one I’ve used almost exclusively for friends and family to contact me and stay in touch.
You can now add a couple more free e-mail domains to those that you can manage from the familiar Yahoo! Mail interface:  @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com
If you’re interested in adding another e-mail address to your contact information and still use the Yahoo! e-mail interface then just go sign-up for one of these new addresses now.
What I’m wanting them to do is let me manage multiple Yahoo! e-mail addresses from …read more

Dogpile has a little fun promotion going on right now where you can send a little bit of a humorous spoof e-mail to your friends on April Fool’s Day this year.
As you can see from the graphic above there are a number of different messages and jokes you can send with their tool.
Another nice little benefit of this fun little promotion is that you can go there now and setup the messages to be delivered for you on April Fool’s Day!
Just look for the doggy to dig up some April Fool’s Day fun.
If you’re not familiar with Dogpile, it’s …read more