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The Next Battle Field between Yahoo & Google & Microsoft: Email 2.0
Yahoo has already been working on Yahoo Mail Platform to allow 3rd-party developers to write applications enhance Yahoo Mail experience.
Xobni has been enhancing the Outlook experience. I don't know what's the reason of MS not buying Xobni. But Xobni has everything that Outlook and email services ought to have.
Today, Google rolled out new Gmail Lab features to allow preview of youtube, flickr, picasa, Yelp contents whenever they detect relevant links in your emails.
Tags: application api platform email gmail yahoo_mail xobni
OpenSocial ( Google + MySpace + Rest of the World ) VS. Facebook - Finally I Am Motivated to Try Social App Development
If you can't fight the biggest player. Unite others to fight him.
OpenSocial API, proposed by Google, and supported by popular social networks including hi5, iLike, Slide, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Ning, Bebo, MySpace and SixApart, but excluding FaceBook, are going live in any minute(supposedly to be open tonight).
The open API will have three parts(from Oreilly Radar
- People
- Storage
- Activity stream
All of these calls will have a GData counterpart and they will use HTML and JavaScript only. Google is considering adding OAuth (Radar post) to the API.
