{"id":313,"date":"2006-05-17T04:12:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T11:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2006-05-17T04:12:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T11:12:35","slug":"yahoo-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/yahoo-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it seems, the war of “who’s got the coolest ajax portal” has it’s first counter-attack (being the first bombing done by Google).<\/p>\n

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Tonight Yahoo! decided to release a slightly and even more ajaxed version of Flickr.com, which now is not beta anymore, behold “Gamma”, first time I ever see this, I’m not sure what to say, if its clever, or ridiculous, clearly a marketing manouver, none the less some of the changes are good.<\/p>\n

The most notable change is the Organizer, it’s no longer a CPU consuming Flash file.
\nIt’s all AJAXED, supports drag n drop, and its not as intuitive as the old flash movie, at least for me, I know it’ll take a little while for all of us to adapt.<\/p>\n

One thing I didn’t see on it, which I really need, is the ability to send pictures to groups or pools. If someone sees it please correct me If I’m wrong, but I spent good 3 or 4 minutes looking for it and nothing. They definitively need a way to drag a bunch of pictures to a Pool or Group of pictures.<\/p>\n

So that’s what I could tell on a quick glance at flickr. (Thanks Nany<\/a> for letting me know that Flickr.com looked “cooler” tonight)<\/p>\n

Then the biggest blow on Gmail’s stomach. Yahoo Mail Beta.
\nThis certainly had my mouth open when I tried it, I was really looking forward to use it. It’s definitively close to a simple version of thunderbird inside your browser.<\/p>\n

I could:
\n-> Select multiple emails with shift, and then delete them hitting my delete key.
\n-> Compose two emails at once, it creates a tab for each composal.
\n-> Drag and drop emails to folders<\/p>\n

The calendar, and notes are still not ready.<\/p>\n

However… al this coolnes, I don’t think I’ll leave my @gmail.com account, that address it’s too damn valuable to me, I couldn’t go back to emailing with my @yahoo.com email again.<\/p>\n

Maybe Yahoo! might want to allow users to use their web interface to access @gmail.com accounts.<\/p>\n

Don’t miss the screenshots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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