Sep
27
2005Yahoo! Mail Beta
27
2005
Since my usual email address has recently turned into a giant bottomless pit of spam, I’m planning on changing my address, likely to one of the “webmail” variety. Syncing my personal email between multiple computers is turning out to be a nightmare, especially since at work, we’ve switched to Microsoft Exchange. (Aside: I’m shocked no one has made a plug-in that will just sync up your mail folders — p-to-p style — between multiple Outlook installations. Maybe I’ve been hanging around Groove for too long…)
Gmail seems the hip way to go these days, but the UI there still seems a bit counter-intuitive for me. It feels like a web site, not a mail system. What I’m really intrigued by is the upcoming relaunch of Yahoo! Mail, which was fashioned after the little-known, but incredibly innovative OddPost (which they acquired). It basically offers all the interactivity of Outlook, but in a web browser.
The only problem is, you have to get an invitation from Yahoo itself, before you can use it. Grrr… Let me in, Yahoo!