Chad alluded to the imminent release of the Yahoo! Mail Web Service during his keynote talk at ETech today. I believe he said, “really, really, really, soon…hint, hint.” It’s true, the web service is officially released. I have a lot more to say about this, but I’m scrambling to get blog posts and email sent out so I’ll hold off until later tonight.
Until then, feel free to check out the documentation and check out the handful of apps we have in the gallery. In addition, there ought to be some screencasts linked from the YDN blog post. I’m in one of them discussing the mail web service. The other one is with Leah Culver, who helped build the Flickr Postcard hack.
Other coverage:
- GigaOM: Coming soon, Yahoo Mail API, turns it into a platform
- Chad Dickerson - Yahoo! Mail Web Service released!
- Jeremy Zawodny - Yahoo! Mail API and Unlimited Storage
- CNET News.com - Yahoo opens up e-mail APIs to outsiders
- ProgrammableWeb.com - Yahoo Mail API Launches
- Pulse 2.0 - Yahoo! Mail’s Unlimited Storage and API
- Dave Winer -
Yahoo mail API - Matt McAlister - The Yahoo! Mail Web Service screencasts
- WebProNews - Yahoo Mail Develops An Open API
Update: Added some more to the coverage list.
Update 2: Some more coverage.
Introducing the Yahoo! Mail Web Service…
At Yahoo!, we pride ourselves on helping people around the world (over 500 million of them!) connect and communicate with each other using the vast array of communications platforms we offer. Of those platforms, the most popular is Yahoo! Mail,……
Congratulations, I know you’ve been working hard on this. It must be a really good feeling to have it go live to the public.
It’s both exciting and petrifying at the same time.
Yahoo! Mail API and Unlimited Storage…
I’ll have more to say about some of the larger issues around this in a few days, but now that the embargo has been lifted (damn you, Om Malik), I wanted to point at the pair of announcements from Yahoo! Mail today and yesterday. The Bottomless Inbox Y…
Good job, took a quick look at the API and it looks pretty good!
Yahoo Launches Mail Web Services…
I reported earlier today that Yahoo Mail was going to release an API tomorrow. Ryan Kennedy just confirmed in a comment on that post, that it launched it late tonight. The announcement can be found here.
While we are certainly proud of the success of Y…
Thanks David! There are some things here and there that I wish we could go back and clean up, but oh well. Overall, it’s a very powerful platform and I’m really happy to see Yahoo! allowing us to open it up.
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