Yahoo to Allow Yahoo Email Mashups

Reuters is reporting that Yahoo is going to be allowing software developers to develop new applications using Yahoo Email.
Officials of the world's largest Internet media company said on Friday it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based on e-mail.

The move to open up the underlying code of Yahoo Mail -- used by 257 million people -- is designed to spark development of thousands of new e-mail applications built not only by Yahoo engineers but by outside companies and individuals.

Chad Dickerson, head of the Sunnyvale company's software developer relations program, said he believed that the open approach to programming represented the biggest single Web software ever to be opened up for public development.
The announcement was made at Yahoo Hack Day. You can read the Hack Day blog for more informatoin. Reuters reported that developer Dan Lindquist is already working on a mashup using Yahoo Mail and Flickr.

Posted on October 2, 2006





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