The Biz of Coding

Y! Mail sports a Facebook like App Interface

by Ujwal Tickoo on August 24th, 2009

Saw interesting stuff in the older Y! Mail “Classic” — not in the newer Yahoo Mail app.

On the top bar in Y! Mail if you notice on the right hand side you will see icons for My Yahoo, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Sports. When i clicked on the Y! Finance icon, the interface seamlessly took me to Y! Finance keeping me logged into the Y! Network.

The roundtrip to Y! Mail wasnt bad at all. Clicking on the Mail link on the Left side of Y! Finance or Y! News page took me to my Inbox. Ofcourse this link is an old artefact on Y! — called the universal header. Is it just me noticing the other app icons for the first time or is this really new? If so, why not in the “New” Y! Mail?

Anyways if Y! is now trying to be more like Facebook its a good thing to learn. Or is it too late?

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