Product Pulse — June 13, 2008

Posted June 13th, 2008 at 8:50 am by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

 2 Comments / Filed in: Product Pulse

Forget throwing salt over your shoulder and avoiding black cats. Today is Blame Someone Else Day. Late for a meeting? Forgot to charge your cell phone? Overdue mortgage payment? Just not your problem. After you’ve passed the buck to an unsuspecting scapegoat, read up on what we were culpable for this week:

• Video revisions: Head on over to Yahoo! Video and you’ll see we’ve spruced up a few features. By popular demand, you’ll now find a bevy of sharing options under each video so you can shoot it off to the world via Digg, Facebook, MySpace, del.icio.us, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. We also made it easier to check out stats, which now includes how often a video has been favorited. And, perhaps coolest of all, you can now play back videos without leaving the search results page. Makes looking for just the right baby hamster video a cinch. More here.
• Didn’t you see my blog?: If your friends get sore when you don’t keep up with their latest blogging brilliance, we’re here to help. Upgrade to Yahoo! Messenger for Windows (9.0, Beta) and your friends’ most recent blog post will show up as their status message, courtesy of the MyBlogLog wizards. You’ll also be able to keep track of their MyBlogLog activity, like when they add contacts, join communities, or add tags. As the MyBlogLog team eloquently put it, they’re helping transform your IM it into a “socially aware RSS Reader.” More here.
• Final for Firefox 3: A while back, we tested the waters with a Firefox 3 extension beta for Del.icio.us bookmarks. And now it’s official. After hundreds of thousands of downloads and copious user feedback, it’s live and kicking (and better and more stable, thankyouverymuch). It’s a great way to search and manage your bookmarks and keep tabs on your Del.icio.us network. More features are coming down the pike. Still using Firefox 2? It works just fine there, too. More here.

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Mirela | June 16th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

Hello,

Sorry if my comment is not truly related to your subject, but I have an idea an I must tell you (all) this idea.

In the sign up process all the web based email services from around the world ask you to take an ID.
This ID will be every time a part of your email address.

Let’s study the case of an Yahoo ID (the next sentences can be applied also for Google or AOL/AIM however)

For example, let’s say that I have the Yahoo ID: Mirela.
Knowing my (primary) Yahoo ID and my language preferences, it is very easy to guess my Yahoo Mail Address.
My mail address can be:
mirela@yahoo.com
mirela@yahoo.co.uk
mirela@yahoo.ca
mirela@yahoo.com.au
Sure, Yahoo use several domains, but still the email address is easy to be guessed.
On the other hand, I choose to have one address using this Yahoo ID (Let’s say mirela@yahoo.com), the other email addresses using this name before the @ remains unused.

So,
I sign up for a new account on Yahoo and I need a new mail address.
I took a new Yahoo ID, let’s say mirelanewyahooid2008, why cannot link this new ID to a mail address still available, still unused, like mirela@yahoo.ca?
Another question?
Why I cannot sign up for an ID with less than 4 characters after the dot? (Rocket mail something?)
If the Yahoo ID will be a different field in my profile than the Yahoo address, then this restriction will not be necessary anymore.

Thanks for your answer,
Mirela

Mirela | June 16th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

Much more than that.

The Yahoo Mail Inbox and the Yahoo Mail Address, are not the same thing :)

Well, I think that a Yahoo user who sign up for an Yahoo account should be able to link an external mail address without signing up for a Yahoo Mail Address and still be able to use the Yahoo Mail Inbox.

Some of the external mail address can be accessed throw POP or IMAP.
In this moment Yahoo Mail Inbox can retrieve the email from another account throw the POP protocol, but the user of the standard Yahoo Mail cannot send an email from the Yahoo Mail Inbox using the external email address.

I think that for this special case when a new user of Yahoo wants to link the new Yahoo account to an external mail address without signing up for an Yahoo Mail Address, this user should sent emails from the Yahoo Mail Inbox using the external email address.
(Sure the external email account should be activated, an email must be sent from mail-robot@yahooinc.com or something, to the external email address chosen to be linked with the Yahoo account).

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