Games and social network in your new Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger beta

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

I met yesterday some people from Yahoo! and they told us about the upcoming release of the new Yahoo! Mail beta and Yahoo! Messenger beta, It was a long wait for a new upgrade and it is the right time to release a new version of Yahoo! Mail and Messenger. And from the opening talk, I just learned that social networking just embraced our beloved Yahoo! Mail and Messenger, not only social networking but also games. The first thing they showed us is that Yahoo! Mail beta is 2x faster than any web mail providers and this is the new version, much more advance and upgraded. But let me list down the new features and useful tools of Yahoo! Mail and Messenger beta, which was released today as a beta. (more story below)

Yahoo! Mail beta
You can now use Yahoo! Mail beta not only in communication via email, but also communicate via chat, we know that the previous versions can do that but here in the beta version you can also communicate via post in Twitter, Facebook and Yahoo! Messenger.You are now stay connected to all of these social networking hubs and keep updated with your friends and co-networks.

Yahoo! Mail beta can also view your photos and videos from your inbox,no need to click or open it in a new window, because the preview photos and video image preview can now be seen as you open the message from your inbox, you can also click it and Yahoo! Mail will create a new window for you. Useful preview for Flickr, Picasa and YouTube.

The search tool is also upgraded, I know they will make a better search engine within your Yahoo! Mail and the old version is very impressive, but the new version is more impressive and much more organized, they refined the search features and you can now search different email messages to your inbox, and even segregate emails with attachments, by folders, messages and sender.

Yahoo! known as an innovative technology company, and made a better anti spam features for their Yahoo! Mail, Isaac Souweine, Product Marketing Manager for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, told us that they make anti spam via email much more better than other web mail providers, and thus they do lots of research and tie ups with different universities for programming to fight and filter spams in Yahoo! Mail. And as a world's number 1 email provider, they use Yahoo! global cloud computing infrastructure to filter and fight spams and give a safer email experience.

to try the new version, visit http://features.mail.yahoo.com

Yahoo! Messenger beta
Here's a good news for the Yahoo! Messenger, I think people will stick more in YM than in other social networks, because Yahoo! Messenger is now linked to Facebook and Twitter, means that you can now post your status via Yahoo! Messenger status and let it also posted in your Twitter and Facebook status. The best part here is that You can also chat with your Facebook friends, if you saw a Facebook icon on the profile photo of your contact, it means that they are online and ready to chat YM-Facebook. As they say, YM will be central location for all social networks and I believe that I might stick to it and use it in giving live updates via FB and Twitter.

and I learned that the term "YM" is used and invented by pinoys
other countries use the term IM and not YM

Yahoo! Messenger will not be complete with out games, I remember that we played games here like the chess and tic tac toe, but those games are from the old version and now we have social games through Yahoo! Messenger beta, people can now play head to head with other players or play alone with popular social game publishers like Zynga, Elex and OMGPOP, you can also let everyone know that you are playing a game by informing them via an auto publish in your status, or you can over ride the auto publish if you want to play alone. This is an exciting update, and it has more better graphics and enjoyable games to play while chatting, and I know that my mom will be busy again in playing games in YM.

Yahoo! Messenger beta can also access anywhere and to any devices, from mobile phones to laptop to iPad to android. Also you can access your message archives to any PC, means that the archives will no longer be saved in your PC and it will only viewable in your account via Yahoo! server.

No word yet of a download link of the new Yahoo! Messenger beta, but watch out for its release coming in the next month.

This is really an amazing update from Yahoo! and I'm glad that they shared this to us Filipinos and as I learned that 3 Million users are from the Philippines, and more 230 million users in the world, this proves that Yahoo! is the center of people's online lives and I'm with Yahoo! since the early 90's. I asked some questions to Isaac Souweine, Product Marketing Manager for Yahoo!and Karen Yeo, Product Marketing Manager for Yahoo! Southeast Asia and their answers lighten me up, below are some info I got.

1. Yahoo! Mail attachment file limit is not yet increased, but they informed me about Yahoo! that offers attachment uploads using another party. I think I saw this in their previous version.
2. Yahoo! Mail email forward is now available, means that you can use it to forward your Yahoo! to other email ( I'm going to test this, and i know it is available only at Yahoo! Mail plus)
3. Yahoo! Messenger contact list wont be expanded in the new version

below are some screenshots of their new versions