Yahoo Mail gets a Facebook Facelift

Marketing Pilgrim have reported that Yahoo have started rolling out a new Yahoo Mail homepage which allows users to post their updates (like Facebook and Twitter) Yahoo Mail will also now use the pictures and videos sent in emails in various social activities. Read a quote from Marketing Pilgrim below:

“Your Yahoo persona does allow you to automatically feed in updates from a handful of other social services, such as Twitter. You can also identify a “connection” as somebody who doesn’t use Yahoo email, but that person has to sign up for a Yahoo account to take full advantage of the sharing. Kremer said that Yahoo will add more outside connection capabilities over time, including the ability for Yahoo status updates to feed into other social networking systems…”

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