http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5398310.stm
Yahoo is letting web programmers get their hands on the core code for its
e-mail program.
Last Updated: Monday, 2 October 2006, 09:04 GMT 10:04 UK
By opening up the code Yahoo hopes to help create a series of innovative
ways to deal with e-mail messages.
Eventually it said there could be "tens of thousands" of add-ons and extras
for the e-mail reader.
Yahoo is only the latest of the big web companies to open up their main
services to the wider code developing community.
Mail man
Although Yahoo plans to keep control of the code that deals with user names
and passwords, programmers will be able to tinker with almost every other
part of the e-mail reading program. Yahoo Mail has more than 257 million
registered accounts.
The initiative could result in new looks for the Yahoo e-mail reader,
innovative ways to display messages to get a quick idea of message contents
or a series of add-ons that do more with the information found in mail
messages.
"Yahoo is a very large company but we can't build every application that a
user might want," Chad Dickerson, head of Yahoo's software developer
relations, told the Reuters news agency.
In making this move, Yahoo is following the lead of many web firms including
Google, Amazon, Flickr and business software maker Salesforce.com.
Before now only Yahoo's broadband partners, such as BT, have had access to
the innards of the e-mail program.
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