Be a part of Liam’s Life, in Yahoo! Mail
- Posted April 30th, 2008 at 11:44 am by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, Life of Liam, New Stuff
If you are like me, you first noticed the charming, yet goofy, ambassador for Yahoo! Mail almost two years ago, bouncing and pogo-ing around the beta version of what is now the All-New Yahoo! Mail. Of course, back then I was in the same non-employee boat that most of you are right now. But times have changed and I find myself with the unique opportunity to not only get the skinny on our bespectacled friend, but share that skinny with those folks who don’t have the same insider access that I do.
It all began back in 1973. Born to a rocket-scientist mother and mailman father, Liam began perfecting the Chaplin-esque pratfalls we’ve come to love while establishing himself as the class clown of his elementary school. During his teen years he tried his hand at commercials, as well as music, but ultimately found his place working with his father at the post office.
It wasn’t long though before he had an epiphany. Liam wanted to be a part of the latest evolution of mail…email. As luck would have it, his mom had friends at RocketMail (the email engine that would become the foundation for Yahoo! Mail), and got him a job in the Yahoo! email room. As the product of a rocket-scientist and a mailman, Liam was perfectly suited to advancing communication technology, and emerged as the perfect advocate for Yahoo! Mail.
Though he has found great success in his role with the Yahoo! Mail team, all is not bliss for Liam outside of work…which is where you come in. Soon many of you will have an opportunity to help Liam find similar happiness outside of his job.
Be on the lookout for Liam on the front page of Classic Mail, as well as the Home tab of the All-New Mail. He’ll be mixed in where you probably noticed all of those security themed tips for Yahoo! Security Month. You’ll be able to feed him, exercise him, and try your hand at keeping Liam happy … but you’ll only get the chance for a limited time!
Ryan K.
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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April 30th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Liam - Please do what you can to help the developers at Yahoo Mail bring us IMAP like GMail has.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Thanks to yahoo mail’s upgrades, i’m using again the yahoo mail classic. Fast. Easy. Bugless. No Liam.
Die Liam and burn in the virtual hell.
July 17th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I agree lol Liam is lame!
July 19th, 2008 at 3:24 am
There are always negative naysayers…no matter what you do. If you don’t like it, then why are you here checking it out and spending time commenting on it? Just use email and ignore it. I happen to like the little guy! He’s a great distraction when my brain just needs to rest for a minute. I especially like when he dances…I wonder who the inspiration for those moves was? You know somebody had to be.
What happens when you keep him full of food, exercised and completely happy? Anything special? Ah well….it still cute.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:47 pm
well said…and he is cute!
July 29th, 2008 at 6:55 am
i agree i enjoy lil characters like this he is cute…..and your righ someone has always got to be blissfully unaware of how stupid and ignorant they are…lol no really theres always one!
August 1st, 2008 at 10:12 pm
he is sickingly adorable and I love to play with him I wish I had a Liam doll TT^TT
July 19th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
ik…..Liam is stupid
July 24th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Is he,Mikrach, is he????heh…hehe…hehehe………..crack myself up…….
July 21st, 2008 at 8:44 am
liam is soo amazing!! i wish i had his job!
July 25th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
He is the best. If he was real i would date him. lol also cute
July 19th, 2008 at 7:22 am
ITOTALLY AGREE ALL HE DOES IS SIT ON HIS FAT ARSE AND EAT F***** CHOCOLATE SAYING UNLIMITED STORAGE
July 19th, 2008 at 7:50 am
It’s just a computer program, get over it.
July 19th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Liam’s happiness is my happiness. TV is a be-you-tea-fill thing
July 19th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I just starved mine and now he is kicking on the button to feed him…Wish it was more sims like…would be more fun killing him off…
July 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
ouch…lol
July 21st, 2008 at 4:28 am
yes!
i can’t read my spam or sent ’cause it WON’T FRICKIN LOAD!!!!!
July 25th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Sounds like maybe your computer or connection sucks… Cuz I never have any problems! Lose the dial-up! lol…
July 21st, 2008 at 11:05 am
Liam is a retard, nerd,clutz andhe dances like a dog with fleas, i hate him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Wow Emily, you are jealous of a character!, how sad!
July 26th, 2008 at 6:17 am
LIAM IS AWESOME!!! I LOVE IT!!!
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Wow you are really immature and im only 13
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
gawd it is stupid!! no one frickin cares about him!! die liam
July 27th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Whats up with the sweets, cake, icecream and marsmallows that you givetheguy when he needs to be fed!!!
its a bad message your sending out!!
I don’t say it has to be salads, but really!
April 30th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
wow cool! oour own little liam to take care of! haha
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jsut one Q: will a leim be available for other yahoo acounts in other national yahoos? like say, Yahoo! Deutschland?
April 30th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Right. No cute mascots. No unnecessary and frilly changes and “upgrades.” Just maintain functionality and stay SERIOUS in the ever-competitive (and increasingly childlike) world of e-mail. I wouldn’t mind IMAP either.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
geez you dont have to hate liam cuz kids like him hes soo cute if u dont like then y do u comment on him???
May 1st, 2008 at 5:14 am
Cute! Been waiting for you to do something permanent with the little guy. Wish you’d kept him a little younger looking tho. He’s too grown up and has lost his ‘cuteness’.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Keep him looking young! But 2 tell u all the truth, he does NOT look cute.. he also looks like a nerd 2 me
May 1st, 2008 at 10:04 am
I am in full agreement with EM and Skepticalthinker’s points. The Yahoo Mail interface is exceptional otherwise.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
i too am with skeptical! don’t need the “excess”. i have a few email accts with brand “X” and so far, yahoo pleases me the most.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Stop breaking what worked. Keep it Simple, imap, pop3, web mail all need to be quick and easy to access. By UMPC, Cellphone, laptop or desktop access should be fast loading, not cluttered. No stupid characters, just function. We turn off the office animations, why would we want them on the web? Yahoo broke everything with the last browser update… They still have not been able to fix what they broke. It was fine, why did you have to break it?
May 1st, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I agree with jfj1724. I’m a little disappointed that Yahoo Mail spent resources on animating Liam and not on features that would make a real impact on users like IMAP.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Count me in with those who like Liam. He really lucked out that his mom named him Liam, mail spelled backwards.
It was destiny, I’d say.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Sub folders and mail tagging are important for me. All the eye candy is irrelevant where there are so many features missoing.
Ran
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 am
Liam, you’re simply adorable. Could you stand guard and bounce and pogo all of that SPAM out of my INBOX?
July 20th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
lol that sounds like a great idea. mine too please! it seems like all the spam gets through the filter and the real mail ends up “spammed”…it annoys me to no end
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:50 am
@Chansen- Good one! LOL
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:44 am
Maybe it’s just me, but I find “Liam” completely unnecessary. It just seems like extra clutter on an otherwise great (”the best”) webmail interface out there. As the others have said before me, I would prefer that Yahoo Mail focus its efforts on and introduce the features that Ran, skepticalthinker, EM, and jfj1724 mentioned that we want.
July 24th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Liam is not unnecessary! He is a fun person for when ur brain hurts from tons of spam! He is a little nerdy, but some of us need a break every once in a while!
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Hi everyone,
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I’m hearing you loud and clear on the IMAP demand, but I also feel like I need to make sure everyone knows that this Liam banner is not a “new feature” for Mail. It is simply going to run in place of what would usually be some sort of banner advertisement.
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This banner will run for a limited time, and is not some sort of “mail assistant” for Yahoo! Mail.
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Ryan
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
why can’t we have liam all the time? judy
July 20th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Yeah! I agree with Judy!! Why can’t we have Liam all the time! Like I just went on to my account this morning and i’m like ” OH! This looks interesting I wonder what it is?!” So I clicked the dude and it made my day!!! lol
July 28th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
just an ads? so useless
July 28th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
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July 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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July 24th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
he is so cool i love him so much!!!! he is my best freand
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 am
I would like to see in the new mail a “clean” look when forwarding and replying to msgs. Whenever i forward or reply to others messages everything gets all “garbled”. thank you.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
i would also like to see free access through outlook or some other desktop software of email. That would be great.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
they won’t do that… paid accounts only on yahoo have pop access… seems to me that almost no email service offers pop access on free accounts anymore…
so, pretty much, if you want the ability to pop your email account, you’ll have to upgrade your email account to a paid service…
July 21st, 2008 at 4:09 am
Have you heard of Gmail ? Yep, POP3 access … and free!
Bye Bye Liam, Bye Bye Yahoo, Hello Google!
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
What would life be without its silly moments…I hope Yahoo continues to make Yahoo email better - but I enjoy seeing some tender, cute moments in the process. Go Liam.
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I have been with yahoo for a long time and too old to change now. I know other people use other formats but I am happy with Yahoo! until Bill Gates buys you out and then you all will get a million dollars or more..Good luck and don’t spend your bonus in one place..save some for your old age.
paul
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Thank you for hearing us on IMAP. It would really make the overall user experience better. As much as I like Yahoo Mail (And it has the best interface out there by far), integrating it with OS X (Apple Mail) through IMAP would be the ultimate!
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Subfolders would be nice.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 am
I remember well, or do I, it was so long ago. Email came as a wondeful surprise, cost? No long distance charge, just a message passed to a friend thru what was it, wang? Who remembers the date, what was a surprise was, it did not cost an arm and a leg of long distant phone call to pass a message. OMG !!! lol
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 am
This is so cute. i love that i have a virtual person to make happy, feed, and exercise. it is very cute.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
you know, I am cute ,too. i also like to eat ,exercise, and be happy.
May 4th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Well,this sucks.How about fixing up problems instead of old hat stupid ideas being offered?
May 4th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
My question is…since I have Yahoo Mail Premium that is ad free why should I be forced to view ads in My Yahoo??????
May 5th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Well T-minus a couple hours until MSFT announces the hostile takeover. Let’s hope Liam is not replaced with Clippy from Office when that happens! Ha! (Or maybe not)
May 5th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Ryan-
I wouldn’t call it an “IMAP Demand” from us. Your friends and family who use Yahoo Mail will benefit just the same as us from IMAP and other features that people have suggested on this Blog. (Subfolders, etc.)
I think you should instead see it as proudly offering it as a feature: a way to put yourself above your direct competitors. (One of whom already has it).
Calling it an “IMAP Demand” almost seems to blame us for wanting it. I don’t know if others here see it the same way, but that’s what I think.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Nice GIF movie. It’s remember me my “Jump Jump Liam” screensaver you could find here (screenshot+download link):
http://flickr.com/photos/olie_ze_kat/334107787
Let Liam be a part of your life ! :o)
Pastly, I requested at Yahoo! France to publish Liam’s photo album on Flickr or Yahoo! Mail blogs… I renew my request :op
May 6th, 2008 at 10:26 am
EricEM,-
I don’t think that it looks that way at all. To me, ‘IMAP Demand’ simply indicates that users on this blog have been expressing a lot of interest in the feature.
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Ryan
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July 21st, 2008 at 6:25 am
does Liam have a big cock?
May 6th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Ryan:
I think you meant to direct your response to EM’s comment regarding “IMAP Demand”. I didn’t raise that point.
I do agree that there’s been a lot of interest in this feature, and I’m really looking forward to the day that you offer it, either for free or even as a Premium product. It will certainly make my email experience a lot easier.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
for real? cool. can we change his hair style and clothes, too? especially when he exercises, i would think he shouldn’t be wearing that same purple vest. =)
May 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Anyone else getting a server error pop up every few minutes in new Yahoo mail?
May 14th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Awesome work! Keep it up!!