Yahoo Mail Might Be the Next Great App Platform
It’s been more than a year since Yahoo hinted at a concept called “Inbox 2.0” that involved transitioning its hugely popular Yahoo Mail service into a social networking utility of sorts. Along the way, the company has launched what might be seen as several components of that – like Yahoo’s Universal Profiles – but largely been quiet on the details of the strategy.
Today, some new information has emerged from Om Malik, who suggests that the company is soon to launch an application platform for Yahoo Mail. According to Malik, “the program is expected to launch in beta relatively soon with half a dozen small applications running in a sidebar inside the Yahoo mail client … Users’ address books would act as a social graph, essentially turning Yahoo Mail into the basis of a whole new social networking experience.”
