Yahoo upgraded e-mail service

Promising nearly a year ago, Yahoo has just activated some of its new e-mail services to turn them into tools like Facebook and MySpace.

So nearly 275 million Yahoo e-mail users will have the option to set up an account to enable communication with others when they go online. This is one of the characteristics that turned Facebook and MySpace into two of the hottest "social" networks in the past three years, the moment of Yahoo's decline.

After registering profiles on Facebook and MySpace, users can use these sites to set up 'links' online with friends and family to share information and keep in touch regularly.

Yahoo also copied some features of Facebook and MySpace when it decided to open the e-mail client so that external applications could interact with the service. In an experiment on December 15 with some e-mail users, Yahoo began offering applications designed to search for images stored in the mailbox section, transfer information to blogs, and share. movie tips.

" These changes will turn Yahoo's e-mail service into a collection of paintings for your life ," said John Kremer, Yahoo's vice president. ' We hope Yahoo Mail will have a wider influence in this competitive field .'

The first time people heard about the direction of extending Yahoo Mail! was from Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang in January of this year at a consumer electronics conference. Now Yang is no longer the CEO of Yahoo, but his change suggestions still follow the plan.

In addition to adding some features for e-mail, Yahoo also plans to upgrade the toolbar to the Web browser. This change will include the ability to check for new messages to Yahoo e-mail inboxes, as well as receive notifications about the latest online activities of users.

As reported on its website, Yahoo is expected to eliminate some less popular services so that it can reduce the $ 400 million in expenses each year. Yahoo is also urgently implementing a plan to lay off 1,500 employees.