Yahoo buys Oddpost. Email wars begin

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Yahoo Buys Email Startup Oddpost

Yahoo Buys Email Startup Oddpost 07/12/2004 09:11 AM
"Oddpost's $30-a-year e-mail service focuses on an e-mail interface with functionality that is similar to that of desktop applications such as Microsoft Outlook..."

Yahoo Buys Oddpost In A Gmail-Inspired
Moment

Yahoo Buys Oddpost In A Gmail-Inspired
Moment 07/09/2004 08:29 PM
So, we actually heard about this a couple weeks ago, when someone (who knew) passed on the fact that Yahoo had bought Oddpost in an attempt to fight back against the Gmail craze. Now, though, the deal is official, so it's okay to talk about it (though it had been hinte d at earlier this week). It's really not that surprising, after all. Yahoo knew they needed to upgrade their email, and Oddpost has a great reputation for their interface. You can be sure that Yahoo wasn't the only company sniffing around and debating whether or not to buy up Oddpost. While it's probably not going to be the lead in most stories, it is quite interesting that one of Oddpost's nicer features is an integrated RSS reader. Yahoo keeps talking up the power of RSS, and perhaps this will allow them to make a bigger commitment. However, in all likelihood, it was just the mail interface that fascinated them. It seems like a good move by Yahoo who needed to do something.

MS, Yahoo, Google email wars

MS, Yahoo, Google email wars 06/20/2004 11:07 AM
p2pnet.net Jun 20 2004 3:42PM GMT

Yahoo! Acquires Oddpost

Yahoo! Acquires Oddpost 07/12/2004 05:35 PM
ClickZ Today Jul 12 2004 9:28PM GMT

Why Yahoo! bought Oddpost

Why Yahoo! bought Oddpost 07/12/2004 12:38 PM
Adding a new twist to my mention of Oddpost in last Wednesday's item, More on rich clients, Yahoo! just bought the ...

congrats: oddpost goes to yahoo

congrats: oddpost goes to yahoo 07/10/2004 01:10 AM
a great app and good people deserve the recognition and the dollars. well done.

Yahoo Oddpost Link Roundup

Yahoo Oddpost Link Roundup 07/12/2004 08:58 PM
A few folks have asked me about this, and since they don't really tell us anything around here, I'll point you to some of the blog speculation, news, and whatnot. Not So Oddpost (Ross Mayfield) Yahoo has acquired Oddpost (Dave Winer) Why Yahoo buying ODDpost is so important (Marc Canter) Oddpost and Yahoo! (Evan Williams) Yahoo Buys Oddpost In A Gmail-Inspired Moment (Techdirt) Yahoo moves into new space (Red Herring Blog, with a title that makes one think we're moving...

Yahoo! acquires Oddpost for webmail war

Yahoo! acquires Oddpost for webmail war 07/13/2004 03:15 AM
Silicon.com Jul 13 2004 7:51AM GMT

Yahoo Acquires Web Startup Oddpost (AP)

Yahoo Acquires Web Startup Oddpost (AP) 07/13/2004 05:06 PM
AP - Yahoo Inc. girded itself for Google Inc.'s e-mail invasion by acquiring Oddpost Inc., a startup that has gained a reputation for making it easier and more enticing to communicate on the Web.

Yahoo Acquires Web Startup Oddpost

Yahoo Acquires Web Startup Oddpost 07/13/2004 10:00 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jul 14 2004 2:36AM GMT

Why Yahoo buying ODDpost is so important

Why Yahoo buying ODDpost is so important 07/10/2004 06:41 AM

Wow - OK we start off with some different opinions on this historic deal from (it's 3:30AM and I just gotta blog this NOW!):

Ev (Evan Eliiams of Blogger/Google)

Congrats to the Oddposters!

I always liked those guys (though we never got around to having lunch... damn, and
now, between their supermodel dates and rockstar parties, I doubt they'll return
my emails. I shoulda made friends with them when I had the chance... Then again, it's useful now that we're sworn enemies that we were never friends...)

Here's to the web world continuing to heat up with new and interesting things brought to more people!

Dave Winer......

A couple of weeks ago I got a heads-up that this deal had been consumated and would be announced shortly. Little did I imagine then that they would pick a Friday evening to make the announcement, but that's the way it goes. It's
a big one.

Oddpost turned the idea of what you could do with a browser upside down, by producing a clone of Microsoft Outlook in JavaScript and DHTML running in MSIE. Since then, they have labored in relative obscurity, growing a customer base, raising VC money, adding people, and staying out of the way. Then Google launches Gmail, with a
very Oddpostish interface, and someone at Yahoo says "Hmmm, I've seen that somewhere," calls up Ethan and Iain and their new VCs and asks "Are you for sale?" and the rest is history. Now Google has competition on elegance of user interface. Sorry the announcement comes at such an awkard time, everyone in the tech press must be getting in their cars and driving to the beach or the mountains. Congrats to the Oddpost guys, and their users and investors, and congrats to Google for getting some new worthwhile competition. Now who is Microsoft going to buy?

Techdirt... .

So, we actually heard about this a couple weeks ago, when someone (who knew) passed
on the fact that Yahoo had bought Oddpost in an attempt to fight back against the Gmail craze. Now, though, the deal is official, so it's okay to talk about it (though it had been hinte d at earlier this week). It's really not that surprising, after all. Yahoo knew
they needed to upgrade their email, and Oddpost has a great reputation for their
interface. You can be sure that Yahoo wasn't the only company sniffing around
and debating whether or not to buy up Oddpost. While it's probably not going to
be the lead in most stories, it is quite interesting that one of Oddpost's nicer
features is an integrated RSS reader. Yahoo keeps talking up the power of RSS,
and perhaps this will allow them to make a bigger commitment. However, in all
likelihood, it was just the mail interface that fascinated them. It seems like a
good move by Yahoo who needed to do something.

OK - here's where my opinion starts......

This story is much more than Yahoo buying ODDpost to compete with GMail. Sure - that's part of it - and I'm sure that's what Terry Semel et al have in thier heads, but it's this sort of viral infusion into Yahoo that was needed.

This is much bigger than the search engine battles or even Yahoo versus Google.

This is about RIAs (rich internet apps), integrated web services and open standards being fused with productivity software, micro-content and social networking and offered as hosted experiences.

Does this sound like anything familiar?

Yahoo has defined what portals have been - since day one - but their UI just plain sucked! Even the valiant attempts at providing "customization" features in MyYahoo - were tolerable at best.

Yahoo supports RSS and has over 120M active end-users. Yahoo is showing how portals and ISPs can work together by providing software bundled with services - to the masses.

But ODDpost makes it a whole new ball game.

Now Yahoo can step up to teh front on "end-user" experience. That holey grail that's been eluding them since day one. HTML was never desigend and will never fulfill the end-user quotient. The human factor.

The essence of compelling experiences.

HTML will also suck. But once you can truly integrate rich interactive experienecs in teh browser, and tie it into services and functionality - you got a winnign formula for digital lifestyle aggregation!

And once you have email, why stop there? Why not jukeboxes (like MySpace has) or photo blog objects (like Flickr) or Tribe Listings, Friends and Tribes appearing in blog gutters - as well?

Why stop there? Why not support an Open Listings standard and just completely screw Google completely?

Certainly let's hope that Yahoo will support FOAF.

Google is (or will) or (I sure hope they will.)

Why Yahoo bought ODDpost - redux

Why Yahoo bought ODDpost - redux 07/12/2004 05:51 PM

Phil Wainwright groks it. He sees past the obvious GMail copycat syndrome to the real issues:

The fact that Yahoo! has bought a browser-based Outlook clone illustrates how big the threat really is to Microsoft's most lucrative products. These rich-client technologies significantly narrow the gap between browser-based applications and their desktop-based rivals. By simultaneously taking advantage of the unique advantages of being net-native — such as efficiencies of scale for information aggregation and analysis — they can combine a good-enough user experience with capabilities that simply aren't available (except at second-hand) within a traditional desktop environment. That opens the way towards Windows-based Outlook becoming an unloved, legacy application — and provides an opening for other good-enough alternatives to Word, Excel and Powerpoint to muscle their way in.

So Microsoft now faces a crucial decision. Does the company do likewise and bring out a rich-client interface for Hotmail so that its web-based email service begins to rival Gmail, Oddpost and, by implication, Outlook in functionality? Or does it continue to bury its head in the sand and put all its efforts into ensuring it delivers an all-new Windows architecture to a declining pool of desktop loyalists?

The battle is over end-user expereinecs folks. That's why small companies like Friendster and Technorati can come out of no where and develop huge followings. If what you provide rocks - they will come.

Having a hot UI front-end is key to that end-user customer satisfaction.

Yahoo acquires Oddpost to bolster e-mail

Yahoo acquires Oddpost to bolster e-mail 07/12/2004 02:06 PM
Massive portal buys small vendor that sells low-priced Web mail accounts and news aggregation services.

Let the 3G wars begin

Let the 3G wars begin 07/19/2004 11:33 AM
Silicon.com Jul 19 2004 3:35PM GMT

Aliencamel.com - The First Commercial
Email Service to Offer Unlimited Storage
for Personal Email, Finest in its Class
with More Features than Gmail, Yahoo!
and Hotmail

Aliencamel.com - The First Commercial
Email Service to Offer Unlimited Storage
for Personal Email, Finest in its Class
with More Features than Gmail, Yahoo!
and Hotmail 08/17/2004 02:00 AM
Aliencamel.com announces that the email-storage-space race is over. This race was started by Google's Gmail service offering 1GB of storage. AlienCamel has gone the final step and is now offering its users unlimited storage. By removing limits on space, users now have a simple, low-cost service which will keep their emails safe, secure and backed up forever. AlienCamel has implemented the most sophisticated anti-spam filtering and email-virus-blocking technology over the last 18 months. Now, AlienCamel is the first independent commercial email service in the world to offer "unlimited storage for personal email". [PRWEB Aug 17, 2004]

New Yahoo! Portal and 100MB Free Yahoo!
Email

New Yahoo! Portal and 100MB Free Yahoo!
Email 06/15/2004 09:56 AM
<%=GetPoll(91)%> Just an FYI. The Yahoo! Portal page is all new. The Yahoo! email section has also seen a cosmetic upgrade along with 100MB email capacity (as opposed to the previous 6MB) and 10MB message size capability. Obviously in response to the new Gmail coming from Google no doubt. Check it out!

Yahoo Up's Ante - Offers 2GB of Yahoo
Email

Yahoo Up's Ante - Offers 2GB of Yahoo
Email 06/15/2004 10:00 AM
"On free e-mail accounts, Yahoo is expanding storage to 100 megabytes from 4 megabytes and upping the message size limit to 10 megabytes from 3 megabytes."

Yahoo Ups Ante - Offers 2GB of Yahoo
Email

Yahoo Ups Ante - Offers 2GB of Yahoo
Email 06/16/2004 05:20 AM
"On free e-mail accounts, Yahoo is expanding storage to 100 megabytes from 4 megabytes and upping the message size limit to 10 megabytes from 3 megabytes."

Google, Yahoo begin to cut ties

Google, Yahoo begin to cut ties 02/18/2004 08:10 PM
Google is unveiling an even more powerful version of its leading search engine with the addition of 1 billion pages to its Web index. ...

Yahoo to Begin Online Community Services

Yahoo to Begin Online Community Services 03/22/2005 05:01 PM
Times.hankooki.com - Tue Mar 22, 10:29 am GMT

Microsoft buys Lookout Software to
Search Email

Microsoft buys Lookout Software to
Search Email 07/16/2004 04:56 AM
"San Francisco-based Lookout makes software that helps users more quickly search through e-mail stored in Microsoft's Outlook mailbox. Outlook is part of Microsoft's Office software package"

Yahoo to Begin Testing FareChase Travel
Search (Reuters)

Yahoo to Begin Testing FareChase Travel
Search (Reuters) 09/07/2004 03:47 PM
Reuters - Internet media company Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it would soon begin testing a travel price comparison search engine called FareChase as it further integrates Web search services into its offerings.

Veritas Software Buys Email Backup Firm
(Reuters)

Veritas Software Buys Email Backup Firm
(Reuters) 08/31/2004 08:02 AM
Reuters - Veritas Software Corp. , the leading storage software provider, said on Tuesday it agreed to acquire email backup company KVault Software Ltd. for $225 million in cash.

Yahoo buys dialpad!

Yahoo buys dialpad! 06/17/2005 03:50 PM

Rumors last leek led to speculation that Skype was being purchased by Yahoo, today it was announced that Yahoo purchased dialpad a relative unknown VOIP service. I am hopeful that Skype will not be purchased by Yahoo. Considering all of the quality employee's they have sucked out of Redmond recently the rumor last week did not make sense. [Y ahoo]

Yahoo! Buys Musicmatch

Yahoo! Buys Musicmatch 09/14/2004 02:28 PM

Yahoo Buys Flickr

Yahoo Buys Flickr 03/22/2005 04:23 PM

Yahoo! has agreed to buy Ludicorp Research and Development, owners of photo sharing website Flickr, for an undisclosed sum. Flickr enables users to personalise photo collections on the web, where they can store, sort, search and share their photos. Flickr will remain a standalone site for now. The company's employees, however, will relocate to Sunnyvale later this year.

Earlier this week, Yahoo announced Yahoo 360. The service combines a new blogging tool, along with several longtime Yahoo products, including instant messaging, photo storage and sharing, and Internet radio. It also offers tools for sharing recommendations about places to eat, favorite movies, music and so on. Both the 360 move and the acquisition of Flickr and parent company Ludicorp Research & Development come as social networking and blogging draw increased interest from rivals. Microsoft in December added a blog product for its MSN Web service, called MSN Spaces. Google, meanwhile, owns Web log service Blogger and social networking site Orkut.

CNET News.

Yahoo buys Musicmatch

Yahoo buys Musicmatch 09/14/2004 12:54 PM

Yahoo's could not do it on their own so they had to buy one of my most favored music vendors. I have always been a big fan of Musicmatch and now that Yahoo has just bought them out I am sure they will ruin it. I stopped using Yahoo and brands they own when they went to a pay model on listing your site with them. I wonder if my Lifetime upgrade of Musicmatch will be honored. [News.co m]

Yahoo buys Musicmatch for GBP90m

Yahoo buys Musicmatch for GBP90m 09/15/2004 09:54 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 15 2004 2:07PM GMT

Yahoo buys travel company

Yahoo buys travel company 08/06/2004 06:41 PM
The Web portal acquires FareChase, a small online travel company, to broaden its search tools.

Yahoo buys MusicMatch for US$160 million

Yahoo buys MusicMatch for US$160 million 09/14/2004 12:49 PM
Yahoo today announced that they would spend US$160 million in cash to acquire MusicMatch, maker of the once quite popular MusicMatch Jukebox.

Yahoo! buys into music downloads

Yahoo! buys into music downloads 09/15/2004 06:14 AM
Mac User Sep 15 2004 10:43AM GMT

Yahoo Buys Web E-Mail Firm

Yahoo Buys Web E-Mail Firm 07/13/2004 05:18 AM
The world's biggest website acquires Oddpost, a Web-based e-mail provider that has a cool interface. The combined service could give Google's Gmail a run for its money. By Amit Asaravala.

Yahoo buys back shares

Yahoo buys back shares 03/24/2005 04:54 PM
Red Herring Mar 24 2005 7:25PM GMT

Yahoo buys Musicmatch for $160 million

Yahoo buys Musicmatch for $160 million 09/15/2004 12:25 AM
USA Today Sep 15 2004 4:01AM GMT

Yahoo Buys E-Mail Startup

Yahoo Buys E-Mail Startup 07/12/2004 12:43 AM
Facing competition from Google's Gmail, the Internet company adds Oddpost to the battle plan.

IM wars: Yahoo blocks Trillian again

IM wars: Yahoo blocks Trillian again 06/25/2004 10:11 AM
ZDNet Jun 25 2004 1:48PM GMT

Yahoo Buys Online Jukebox Musicmatch
(AP)

Yahoo Buys Online Jukebox Musicmatch
(AP) 09/14/2004 10:42 PM
AP - Yahoo Inc. is buying online jukebox provider Musicmatch Inc. for $160 million in a deal designed to broaden the Internet giant's appeal with the growing audience of consumers who buy songs off the Web.

Yahoo Buys Online Jukebox Musicmatch

Yahoo Buys Online Jukebox Musicmatch 09/14/2004 10:04 PM
Miami Herald Sep 15 2004 2:21AM GMT

Yahoo! Buys Brazilian PPC Player
TeRespondo

Yahoo! Buys Brazilian PPC Player
TeRespondo 04/13/2005 11:11 AM
"Yahoo! is expanding its presence in Latin America with the purchase of Brazilian performance-based advertising network TeRespondo."
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