16.12.08
Yahoo’s free email gets more social
- Social Networks, Yahoo -
By Glenn Chapman
Agence France-Presse
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo on Monday began weaving trendy social-networking features into its popular free email service as it vies to be the preferred launching point for Internet surfers.
Yahoo says it is providing tools that lets people use its email service to build interactive communities based on friends and interests.
“Mail is the largest dormant social graph,” Yahoo Mail vice president John Kremer said while outlining enhancements to the service used by 275 million people worldwide every month.
“This is the first time we are exposing that in a significant way.”
A “smarter inbox” puts messages from friends or family in a separate, tabbed file so they don’t get buried under mountains of spam or work email.
