Happy Halloween from Liam and the Yahoo! Mail Team

You didn’t think I would let Halloween pass without showing off some of our favorite costumed Liams did you?  My favorite is Rappin’ Liam, but since Dracula is a more famous character I thought I would give Count Liam the top position.

Hope all of you out there have a happy and safe Halloween!

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Economy is down, but still be wary of unexpected lottery wins

If he keeps this up I may just have to find a way to give Mark his own byline, but in case you missed the Yodel post, our resident anti-spam czar Mark (the same one who held the recent workshop) had a few words to share about the ever increasing “lottery” scams.  Check it out!
Coalition [...]

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Try out the all-new Calendar (Beta)

That’s right, you heard me correctly! There’s a whole new calendar application for Yahoo! and you are welcome to try it out now. I know that a lot of you have been requesting this for a long time, so this news is definitely something to sit up and take notice of.
What can I [...]

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Switching back from Calendar Beta

While we have a lot of confidence in the overall experience being offered by the All-New Calendar beta, the fact of the matter is that it is a beta and some people may want to switch back.  We had always intended to include that option (hence the Help pages that describe its presence on the [...]

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Almost time to say goodbye to Feeds in the All-New Yahoo! Mail

Over the next several weeks, the RSS Feeds Reader (integrated into the sidebar of the All-New Mail) will begin to ease off into the sunset.  Overall usage of the feature was very low, and we’ve made the choice to focus our development resources on features and functionality that are valuable to the most users.
All of [...]

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Following up on some profiles confusion

Hi all,
Based on feedback on this blog, and much of what I’m hearing from other blogs, there is a bit of confusion regarding the new profiles experience.  Because of this I want to offer some important clarification about how it works.
There are a lot of people who think we are now automatically displaying your information [...]

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Final Update: Yahoo! Mail Outage

Final Update (27 October 2008): I have just spoken with Virgin/NTL. According to them, the issue affecting service in their ticket - F820104 - has been resolved. Everything should be back to normal again. At present, there are no other reported outages and all Yahoo services are working. If you [...]

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What happened to my feeds?

You might notice over the next couple of days that in your folder list, on the left-hand column of the All-new Yahoo Mail, the item called “All feeds” has been removed. If you use the classic version of mail, or have no idea what that was for anyway ;-), then you can stop reading. [...]

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Your profiles are getting an update

There’s some big news that has a “connection” to your Mail experience.  If you checked your profile over the weekend, you may have noticed things look a little different. Last Thursday we rolled out an all-new profile for Yahoo! users, geared towards a more “open and social” Yahoo!.
The update includes a sneak peek of [...]

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Mail Basics Workshop transcript (and new Workshops page)

Once again we’d like to thank everyone who submitted questions, and who stopped by to participate, during last week’s Mail Basics Workshop (transcript here). If you missed it, I was joined by Chris (Product Manager for All-New Mail), Carl (Customer Experience, referenced here), Maryn (liaison between the Mail team and Mail Customer Care), Melissa (Messenger [...]

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