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Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network
By Reshma Kumar at November 15, 2007 0 CommentsThere are reportedly plans underway to transform your email into a social network. Yahoo and Google are looking at turning their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks.
“Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph — the connections between people. That’s why the social networks offer to import the e-mail address books of new users to jump-start their list of friends. Yahoo and Google realize that they have this information and can use it to build their own services that connect people to their contacts.”
This is a creative extension of traditional Gmail and Yahoo email that so many people use and whose success is dependent on a number of factors. Gmail already has chat integrated and both My Yahoo and iGoogle have widgets or gadgets available. Google also recently made an upgrade to the Gmail Contacts Manager which is more usable and profile oriented.
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