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Yahoo! Acquires Oddpost

Posted by timothy on from the blame-gmail dept.

weiyuent writes "We all know the arrival of Gmail has initiated a new round of competition amongst the major webmail providers. Well, Yahoo! has acquired Oddpost and will be integrating Oddpost's amazing interface to strengthen its offerings. One might wonder though how to reconcile Oddpost's MSIE requirement with Yahoo!'s (thus far) cross-platform approach. Oh well, at least it will likely put an end to Oddpost's exasperating attempt to be cute in their communication."

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  1. Not cross platform by beforewisdom · · Score: 5, Informative
    One might wonder though how to reconcile Oddpost's MSIE requirement with Yahoo!'s (thus far) cross-platform approach.
    It is not cross platform. They do not support the ical standard or any non-windows calendar clients. ( yes, I sent them a polite suggestion )
    1. Re:Not cross platform by lessthanjakejohn · · Score: 5, Informative

      Launchcast does not work in Firefox on windows either.

  2. Re:Client-side 2GB goodness by FU_Fish · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try Fusemail. They offer an imap and webmail interface for something like $4 quarterly and they can pull your e-mail from your yahoo account and others.