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Wednesday, June 11, 2003
All Yahoo, All the Time
News.com is rife with interesting tidbits about the world's best portal, Yahoo:
* Yahoo has introduced an outgoing e-mail spam "challenge-response" system for users sending e-mail (as reported by Traffick before any other publication or blog, to my knowledge). But it doesn't happen upon sending every message because, as News.com, reports:
"In order to keep spammers guessing, Yahoo's system computes what the company calls a "user profile." This profile details the frequency with which the user normally sends messages and the length of time the user has held the account. The system issues a spam challenge when the user approaches an individually determined rate limit." Ah, so that's why Andrew and I only saw it a few times. Still, as a Yahoo account holder since 1998, I don't know why I would trigger their challenge system. Maybe they were testing the system?
* Yahoo also has announced a partnership with WebEx -- a company that provides online collaboration software that works very well, as I can attest -- into its Yahoo Messenger Enterprise Edition . So now, corporate IM users can launch online meetings while using Yahoo Messenger. Pretty neat.
* Yahoo Personals will expand to Europe soon, as announced today: "The expansion will reach the United Kingdom, France and Germany, adding to offerings in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan," News.com reports. It's no wonder Yahoo is doing this, as online personals is shaping up to be one of the few online business success stories, along with auctions and paid search ads.
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Cory Kleinschmidt
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