Yahoo's Geek Statue

Philipp Lenssen writes "Yahoo put up a life-size alpha geek statue in honor of the Yahoo Mail team, which they think beat the Gmail team. The statue's plaque says it's presented "in recognition of tremendous intellectual efforts put forth in order to defeat Gmail", and: "Not since the code breakers in Britain's Bletchley Park deciphered Germany's Enigma code during World War II has so much brainpower been focused on kicking an enemy's ass." Flickr has a photo." It's a nice little article on the difference between two of the net's superpowers.

Comments

Re:Here, have a trophy.

[mallumax]

They are claiming that Yahoo Mail is better than GMail.Check out this sticker
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/60225255/in/ photostream/ It says

Thanks to the new YAHOO! MAIL we can all give the competition something to kiss.

The New Yahoo! Mail is superior to GMail
Wall Street Journal

sigh..

[Janek Kozicki]

no one ever remembers that it were polish scientists who cracked enigma...

Re:This is Wrong

[clap_hands]

Yes, it's certainly hyperbole.

(A bit off-topic, but, because it's not as widely known as it should be, it might also be good to point out the considerable contributions of Polish and American codebreakers to the reading of Enigma. The Polish had been solving Enigma since the end of 1932. Shortly before the start of World War II, they passed their techniques and knowledge onto the British. Without the Polish head start, it would have taken Bletchley Park much longer to get going on Enigma (if at all). The US chipped in later.)

Re:Didn't Yahoo! have webmail first?

[kimba]

Yeah you did. It is talking about the new Yahoo! Mail which is about to be released and has been subject to previewing for the last few months. It is not talking about the Yahoo! Mail that has been around for years.

Here is a screenshot.

Re:I've got news for them...

[Bertie]

If you install Greasemonkey, there's a script for it which will add a delete button to the page alongside the "archive" one Google seems to think you should use for even the most useless messages.

Re:Slow motion pictures

[Kadin2048]

That's pretty funny, because I'm reading my Gmail account right now using Lynx, which despite its many capabilities doesn't do ActiveX.

The only thing GMail requires is JavaScript and cookie support, and even that isn't required, you just get a "For a better Gmail experience, use a fully supported browser" message at the top of the screen.

To quote from their help page:

  To take advantage of all Gmail has to offer, sign in to your account
      from a fully-supported browser. The following browsers will give you
      access to all of Gmail's features (each is available for free
      download):
          * Microsoft IE 5.5+ (download:Windows)
          * Netscape 7.1+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
          * Mozilla 1.4+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
          * Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
          * Safari 1.2.1+ (download: Mac)

      If you don't have access to a fully supported browser, you can still
      sign in to Gmail with almost any other browser.