Goose, it’s time to BUZZ the YMail blog!
In the interest of blatant self-promotion, and because I’m still all a glow from the fact that my post was picked up by the Washington Post this week (I was, after all, a print journalism major for like 2 semesters), I thought now would be the perfect time to incorporate Yahoo! Buzz into this blog.
What is Yahoo! Buzz, you ask…well, as Tapan mentioned on Yodel a little while back:
“Yahoo! Buzz uncovers the most interesting and relevant content from websites across the Internet to bring more buzz-worthy stories to the homepage of Yahoo!.”
As of today you should be able to find a Buzz Up button at the end of all new posts to this blog. If you click on that button you will be voting to Buzz it up on the Yahoo! Buzz site.
By doing so you make it more likely that other people will find this content too (which I’m all for). If something gets enough votes it may even find itself on the Yahoo! homepage.
Ryan Knight
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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May 22nd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
This is off-topic, but Ryan, i still have not seen the yahoo mail classic update. What is taking so long? I cant wait for the new attachment download feature
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Hey Ryan,
I submitted a response to a question you posed in response to a concern I originally posted under the story about Yahoo! Lottery Notifications (here’s the link: http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2008/05/yahoo-lottery-notifications-dont-fall-for-em/).
I just want to make sure you’re aware I gave an answer to your question. In the last couple days, I continue to receive many duplicate alerts in my e-mail notifying me of the same blog updates.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
It would be great to see Yahoo Buzz roll out to more blogs. Cheers.
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:33 am
Anyone know how the data on the “my yahoo” page gets updated? I’ve had the same sports scores up for about 2 weeks.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:12 am
Good thinking!
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:12 am
Jason,
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Thanks for the heads up. I am hoping that you might be able to track the next 2-3 posts you get multiple alerts for and email me the details a ymailblog1[at]yahoo.com.
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If I can see which posts trigger it, and when the repeated alerts are sent, I might be able to track down a cause.
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Ryan
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May 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
i do not want the new yahoo.(yet) but every time i go to read mail it throws me into the new and i want the classic..it wont let me stay with the classic…whyyyy????
May 25th, 2008 at 11:06 am
oh, so you mean, like digg.com, only, on my my.yahoo page? okay i guess that’s kinda cool.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Ryan,
Glad the taglines are gone. I don’t mean to be rude, but maybe you should have stayed in “print journalism” a couple more semeters. I clicked on your Washington Post link and read the article. Congrats on being “picked up” (that’s a rush), but I had to read your quotation several times to undestand it.
Your casual writing style is certainly appropriate for a blog, though good grammar is always necessary to be understood. Leaving out commas is becoming more common and everybody splits infinitives, but filling up a compound verb with a list of adverbs is just confusing and awkward. All this together in your one short paragraph made my eyes cross. Writing clearly to be understood is a challenge. Keep trying.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Tom,
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I’m quite certain that I do things in each post that would make many of my former professors cringe. I, for one, am particularly disappointed in how I decided to end that second sentence. That is the kind of mistake I run into with my ongoing quest for ‘conversational’.
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Thanks for reading.
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Ryan
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May 27th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Error Code 5. I am so frustrated to be faced it again. All afternoon today.
You’ve stumbled upon a temporary problem we’re having with Yahoo! Mail. Usually this problem gets resolved quickly, without you doing a thing. In fact it may be taken care of now.
* Try pressing the Reload or Refresh button on your browser, or logging out then back into your Yahoo! account. Hopefully that will take care of things.
If that doesn’t fix the problem, please be patient while we sort it out and try again shortly. The fact that you’re reading this page means we’ve been automatically notified of the issue, and chances are we’re working on it now.
* If you think you’ve been more than patient and tried the tricks above, feel free to contact Customer Care about Error Code 5.
Thanks,
The Yahoo! Mail Team
Sorry for the inconvenience
May 30th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Ryan,
what’s up with the new login??? It took me 4 times to get logged in. The new code word is VERY hard to read and writing out the whole address is yet another time consumer.
I also see the mail blog is removed from the help menu.
More frustrated with yahoo
Mark
June 9th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Few ideas for Yahoo Mail!
Don’t post this in the Blog, this is for private view only. Please contact me personally in case of need.
I have young kids and am constantly worried about them stumbling upon my previously signed-in Yahoo mail or any other email and seeing some spam email with obscenities (If I am not around or forget to lock the computer!)
It stuck me that you can develop a setting in the Yahoo that can essentially mask out any obscene words like ****** in the subject/body or other sections. Right now Images are being handled well but not text.
Let me know if this sounds something of importance.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Hey Ryan
I want to say this to you and all google lovers. I think Yahoo Classic is the best thing on earth. It’s fast, intuitive and powerful and now that I have Y mail I feel as if I have found happiness. Gone are the taglines and like your president says happiness is yahoo. Ymail sounds great and so does yahoo. This I did not find in gmail which could have been google or hotmail. Now all I want is a BLACK THEME. Please respond.
Yhaoo classic has the best of fastmail and gmail and somehow I could bever get adjusted to anything else.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Ryan
I find it strange when people who spell semesters as semeters and understand as undestand and talk about infinitives, and compound verbs silly