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Plug-ins liven up AOL e-mail, bridge to Yahoo Mail

by Stephen Shankland

AOL Mail now sports plug-ins in a right-hand pane, including one for Yahoo Mail shown here.

AOL Mail now sports plug-ins in a right-hand pane, including one for Yahoo Mail shown here.

(Credit: AOL)

AOL revamped its online e-mail site, giving it a right-hand pane that features plug-ins to show AOL content--and Yahoo Mail.

The pane features immediate access to information from AOL Finance, MapQuest, AOL Radio, TMZ, and AOL Elections, said AOL Mail Vice President Roy Ben-Yoseph on the company's AOL Mail blog Wednesday. "The Yahoo plug-in on AOL Mail allows users to preview Yahoo Mail within the AOL Mail experience, as well as take advantage of one-click access to their Yahoo Mail accounts," Ben-Yoseph said.

The Yahoo Mail plug-in is the first of other third-party plug-ins the company expects.

"Over the next few weeks, expect to see more third-party content on mail.aol.com, as we continue to open up our service to offer one-click access to other popular sites, e-mail providers, and content," he said. "Our goal has always been to deliver the best of the Web by opening up our service, we can now offer users a one-stop destination for mail, messaging, and content."

Meanwhile, a revamped Yahoo.com home page lets people check their AOL Mail. How fortuitous for users, if the companies should actually merge.

Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank.
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by Faysal21 October 24, 2008 9:18 AM PDT
Is it me or are Yahoo! and AOL thinking about getting togheter?
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by Ilgaz October 27, 2008 3:04 AM PDT
I think AOL knows about amazing spam problem which Yahoo insists not to resolve and tries to act fast about getting their users to AOL.
They seem to act fast these days.
BTW I am Yahoo mail user since "98, you should see the trivial junk reaching to INBOX and their new fashion of removing features without asking customers/users.
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