Top Three Tips for Spotting Online Scams

This month in the UK, the Office of Fair Trade is promoting their annual Scams Awareness Month. In support of their efforts, I’ve posted some scam avoidance tips on the UK Mail Blog. Since they apply just as much across the pond as they do State-side, I wanted to share them with you [...]

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New Features for the All-New Calendar Beta

Just a few months back we told you about the launch of an updated version of the Yahoo! Calendar. The all-new Yahoo! Calendar Beta offers a host of great features like open standards (iCalendar), personalization with Flickr and drag-and-drop functionality to name just a few.
Since launching the public beta back in October, the Calendar [...]

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Take a tour of Yahoo! Mail’s new smarter inbox

As you may have heard, we’ve been working on a new smarter inbox to help make your life easier. We’re happy to announce that today, some of you will begin to experience the smarter inbox, and we wanted to give everyone a chance to see what it looks like and what it can do.
The [...]

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Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop is ready for syncing with Calendar and Contacts

Back when I posted about updates to the Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop beta (get the latest version here) many people were intrigued. It was, after all, our first real step into the IMAP world, and it also represented a great way for users with multiple Yahoo! accounts to easily keep track of them without the [...]

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Calendar Beta updates

Hopefully you saw that the Calendar team already restored the ability for users to switch back from the beta, but I wanted to make sure the team isn’t stopping there.  The team recently released an update that addresses the most frequently reported issues and tunes up performance (think timezone problems and import URL specs…among other [...]

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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!
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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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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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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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It’s the Calendar you’ve been waiting for!

It is with much excitement (and much relief because I can stop ducking the questions) that I can share with you the news about our All-New Yahoo! Calendar.
You’ve been asking (a lot) and I’ve been rather coy, but now you know why. Yahoos have had a chance to play with it for a few [...]

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