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When I went to Bangalore (post 1, post 2, post 3 and post 4) last year, I was asked to give a brown bag talk about the Yahoo! Mail Web Service. After giving the talk, a handful of people approached to talk in more depth about certain features of the web service.

One person in particular, Gopal, was already building something with the web service. I had been in contact with him previously over email and had heard about his application. He invited me down to his desk to have a look and to help debug a few things. What I saw caused my jaw to drop. Gopal had built a XUL interface to Yahoo! Mail using the web service for communication with the backend. It was fast, it was pretty and he had managed to pull off client-side message threading.

If you need to see the benefit of open services in action, look no further. Gopal showed precisely what individuals can do when the platforms are exposed to the outside world (or, in this case, just exposed outside of the mail team). For more information, check out Gopal’s post on his project…Tapestry.

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