Yahoo buys Oddpost email

[aww]

Will this start the small email service buyouts? Is it no longer "in" to have your own domain with personal email address for the mainstream users?

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64177,00.html

Yahoo escalated its newfound rivalry with Google by acquiring Oddpost, a San Francisco startup known for its innovative e-mail service.

The acquisition will allow Yahoo to fold Oddpost's Web-based e-mail service into its own Yahoo Mail offering, creating a product that has the potential to draw subscribers away from Google's much-touted Gmail service.

Based on Oddpost's message to subscribers, however, it's highly likely that future versions of Yahoo Mail will allow users to drag and drop messages and receive automatic updates from their favorite blogs and news sites, just as Oddpost customers do now. Yahoo Mail users may also get to use Oddpost's enhanced e-mail interface, which closely resembles popular e-mail software like Microsoft Outlook Express and Qualcomm's Eudora.

Industry observers believe features like these could help Yahoo upstage Google. The two companies have been fighting for the same customers since February, when Yahoo stopped using Google's search engine in favor of its own technology.

 

[suthra]

Google has created a great reputation just by their invite only service.

This is a great advertising technique as it creates an urge inside everyone to get an gmail id.

Gmail rocks.

 

[Jeanco]

Yahoo is really going on a spree of buying and partnering everywhere. I think the next 4 or 5 years will be very interesting in the online market. Is it time to buy Yahoo Stocks again?

 

[Matt]

could be that your not to far off the mark Jeanco

 

[Jeff]

:lala:

 

[csmaster2005]

Originally posted by WaveMail.com
:lala:

could this be a sign that jeffs no email campaign is gona lift off smoothly?

 

[NameFusion]

100 MB of email doens't even make me think about joining them, gmail with the 1 GB is amazing, i'll never use yahoo again, even if they had 2 GB, they have to many ads everywhere.

 

[Wanda]

I noticed that article today as well aww..
interesting read!

Kinda reminds me of the "chatter" going on behind:
www.Plaxo.com

their STORY here:
http://www.plaxo.com/css/about/news/040615.html

 

[Raf]

It all depends really on what other features Yahoo may think to continue, but as far as 1 GB of space for GMail with the invitation system makes me think that it probably won't have a chance. But who never knows, they might strike the public back with something unexpected.

 

[QBert]

I love that google has changed email accounts compleetly without even launching there services to the public. lets get together and offer accounts with 80gig storage and pics of tara read all over it to a select few and see if hotmail, yahoo and gmail will follow sute

QBert

 

[matrics]

Originally posted by suthra
Google has created a great reputation just by their invite only service.

This is a great advertising technique as it creates an urge inside everyone to get an gmail id.

Gmail rocks.

Heh... did you see that South Park episode where Cartman bought an amusement park? I think it's exactely the same principle

 

[CoolGuy]

Yahoo is really fighting back with giving us 100mb of space in their email accounts.

 

[Anthony]

Originally posted by NameFusion
100 MB of email doens't even make me think about joining them, gmail with the 1 GB is amazing, i'll never use yahoo again, even if they had 2 GB, they have to many ads everywhere.

Yahoo does offer 2GB mail for a fee with no graphical ads and Hotmail will be in the fall as well.