Update: Sign-in Seal
- Posted January 31st, 2008 at 5:34 pm by Ryan
- Categories: General, Tips & Tutorials
Last week I posted a little video tutorial showing how to use the Sign-in Seal to have more confidence that you are logging into authentic Yahoo! pages.Wouldn’t you know it they went and changed how it looks only days after I posted it! I also heard from a few people that the file wouldn’t […]
Reader Polls: Round 2 - More about who you are
- Posted January 29th, 2008 at 8:57 am by Ryan
- Categories: General, Reader Polls
After the rousing success of the first bit of reader polling, I couldn’t wait come back and find out more about all of you. I couldn’t help but notice that one of the reader comments suggested that Yahoo! should already know which version you use, or other things like browser and operating systems. But […]
Screencast: Use the Sign-In Seal to thwart fraudsters
- Posted January 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm by Ryan
- Categories: General, Screencasts, Tips & Tutorials
First off I want to thank everyone who responded to last weeks polls. It was very interesting to learn how our breakdown of New and Classic users is (almost 2:1 in favor of New mail), that the vast majority are using either IE or Firefox on Windows XP, and that we have such a […]
Reader Poll: What Mail do you have, and how do you access it?
- Posted January 18th, 2008 at 9:54 am by Ryan
- Categories: General, Reader Polls
One of the other Community Managers around here recently turned me on to this great polling plugin that I can use on this blog … so partly because I love to try out new features, but also because I think it would be EXTREMELY helpful to know more about all of you and how you […]
Y! Mailers sound off with resolutions
- Posted January 16th, 2008 at 6:49 pm by Ryan
- Categories: General, Tips & Tutorials
Hello blog readers! Last week I asked you to share your New Year’s Resolution with the blog, and the response was great. We selected some people to receive some shirts, and have already notified the lucky winners (so if you didn’t hear yet you’ll have to stay tuned for next time!).Without further ado, […]
What are your New Year’s Mail resolutions?
It’s a new year and no doubt many of you resolved to make some changes in 2008. In fact some of you may still be adhering to those resolutions. I’m still going strong on my 2-3 liters of water per day, which has cut out a lot of unnecessary coffee and diet cola […]
Yahoo! Mail makes a splash at CES
- Posted January 9th, 2008 at 5:48 pm by Ryan
- Categories: General, New Stuff, Screencasts
If you’ve been following the news flowing out of CES in Las Vegas, you’ve probably already heard that Chief Yahoo! Jerry Yang presented some glimpses of the possible future of Yahoo! The 45+ minute presentation leads with some interesting advancements in Yahoo! Mobile, but the real meat & potatoes portion (at least for Mail […]
Yahoo! Mail taking new steps to combat spam
Hello everyone and welcome to 2008! With the first post of the New Year I have something that I’m sure will be especially interesting to many of you. I tracked down resident “Spam Czar” Mark (he leads the team that is in charge of our anti-spam efforts) and he had some exciting […]
