Yahoo! Mail Blog

Did you see a talking mailbox in your city? Check out this video of the Yahoo! Mailbox, affectionately dubbed The Yahoo! Purple People Greeter, as he makes his way across the country. Celebrating the launch of the latest version of Yahoo! Mail, our purple friend stood on street corners in Brooklyn and Manhattan, doling out personalized gifts to Yahoo! Mail fans. What did they get? It depends on who they were! A grad student got an iPad, a musician got a harmonica, a pet owner got a dog bone. And that’s not all! In Austin, The Yahoo! Purple People Greeter rocked out at Emo’s and tried (unsuccessfully) to crowd surf during a performance by Futurebirds. He ultimately landed in San Francisco where he arrived just in time to fuel Giants playoff fever with many sets of tickets to the World Series champs’ final games of the season.  The Yahoo! Mail team appreciates our loyal Yahoo! Mail users, and the Purple People Greeter was just one way for us to show you.

The Yahoo! Mail Team

Check out the latest episode of Upgrade Your Life on Yahoo! News where you can get the latest tips and tricks for managing your emails! Learn about how best to protect yourself from spam and bacn,  unsubscribe from mailing lists,  track all of your online purchase receipts, keyboard shortcuts in Yahoo! Mail and much, much more!

In the coming weeks, we will be launching an all-new Yahoo! Calendar.  The new design is based on the latest version of Yahoo! Mail and has a more intuitive design with improved navigation capability.

We’ve been listening to your feedback and have incorporated many of our users’ suggestions in the new design. Here’s what the new Yahoo! Calendar has in store:

• Cleaner design with easy discovery and navigation
• Much faster interface
• New toolbar buttons to navigate between day, week, and month views
• Improved month view with full event titles and all the day events
• All the themes that you use with the latest version of Yahoo! Mail
• Holiday calendars from 15 new countries
• And a lot more…

Here is a preview of the new Yahoo! Calendar:

View your events list:

Easily add an event:

All calendar users will get this new design soon, and I promise that there are more exciting things lined up for you with Yahoo! Calendar in the near future.  So stay tuned!