Yahoo Mail API Due Out Tomorrow?
March 28th, 2007
Today is apparently Yahoo Mail day here on my blog.
Chad Dickerson from Yahoo Developers’ Network announced today at the ETech conference that Yahoo will be releasing a Yahoo Mail API, kinda.
He didn’t exactly say that, but people I’ve talked to have said this is true and it should be out either tomorrow or in the next few days, Om Malik is hearing the same thing.
What could you do with a Yahoo Mail API? Well for one thing, if I used Yahoo Mail, I would build my own mail application because the new Yahoo Mail reminds me too much of a nicer version of Outlook Web Access. And I hate Outlook, and I hate Outlook Web Access even more. The only reason I use it is to sync my Windows Mobile phone to my exchange server so that I can get push email and my calendar syncs with my desktop so I can make changes out of the office.
These latest moves on Yahoo’s behalf are in a good direction. They’re aiming at keeping Yahoo on top of the next-generation email applications chart, and are trying to bring some innovation to their products through the release of an API.
What would/will you do with a Yahoo Mail API?
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March 29th, 2007 at 1:10 am
As you may have seen, we didn’t wait until tomorrow.
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/03/mail.html
Ryan Kennedy
Yahoo! Mail Web Service Engineer
March 29th, 2007 at 1:31 am
[…] today that Yahoo Mail was going to release an API tomorrow. Ryan Kennedy just confirmed in a comment on that post, that it launched it late tonight. The announcement can be found here. While we are certainly proud […]
March 29th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Thanks for the tip Ryan, I just posted an entry about it, looking forward to playing around with it.