Yahoo Inc. is introducing a test version of a new service called PhotoMail that lets users insert up to 300 digital photographs into the body of an e-mail and store an unlimited numbers of photos on the Web and media company's computers.

The Sunnyvale, California-based company said late on Wednesday that users can also add borders and captions to photos embedded in the body of e-mails and can perform limited editing on them, such as rotating them or adjusting the size and quality of the image. "Photo sharing is enormously popular and thought by many to be too complicated," said Andy Spillane, vice president of Yahoo mail in an interview.

News source: Reuters

Changes:

* Thumbnail view of all Buddy List contacts
* Live Video with 3-D rendering
* Ability to clear IM History
* An additional Ads Setting that allows you to control where ads are displayed, as well as the size of the ads
* Buddy Info and Alert Me functionality when you ‘right click’ on the Buddy List feature


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by roadwarrior on 26 May 2005 - 15:50
Anyone want to bet that this will be Windows-only? Yahoo seems to have completely dropped Mac support now. Their Messenger program hasn't had an update in two years now (May 13, 2003 was the last new version), and every new feature they introduce is Windows-only.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by KayMan2K on 26 May 2005 - 16:31
It sounds like a web based feature... so as long as it works with Safari.
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by roadwarrior on 26 May 2005 - 17:11
Being "web based" doesn't necessarily preclude being Windows-only. It might (as many Yahoo web features do) use ActiveX for example.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Opio on 26 May 2005 - 16:47
what is the headline supposed to mean?
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by roadwarrior on 26 May 2005 - 17:13
I think they left out a few words, as news services typically do. A better version would be "Yahoo says they are rolling out their new PhotoMail service".
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by dolimite35 on 26 May 2005 - 16:49
wow 300 pics in one email..... man we are getting very spolied, but hey it all good
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Ficman on 26 May 2005 - 21:07
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by RADicaLMMS on 27 May 2005 - 00:08
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PhotoMail, which will allow users to put up to 300 pictures in a single e-mail and provides unlimited storage space for users.

PhotoMail users will be able to perform basic edits they upload to the service. For example, a user could rotate a picture to make sure it displays it correctly for pictures taken in landscape view.

Since only thumbnails of the pictures are sent in the actual e-mail, there is little chance that an e-mail would be rejected due to size limitations of incoming e-mail. Each thumbnail is only about five kilobytes. The larger versions of the pictures would reside on Yahoo's servers.


Damn thing needs Internet Explorer to work (Grrr)

http://photomail.mail.yahoo.com/

I love Yahoo! but thats just wrong on so many levels
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