Yahoo! has introduced enhancements to Yahoo! Mail, which is expected to provide consumers with a ‘smarter inbox’ experience that will begin rolling out to users on a limited basis over the coming months.
This Yahoo! Mail is part of the company’s ongoing effort to deliver more personally relevant starting points on the web by integrating social functionality and opening products up to content and services from outside of the Yahoo! network, said Yahoo!.
The Yahoo! Mail smarter inbox experience is the company’s largest-scale implementation of its Open Strategy initiative, Y!OS, bringing to life Yahoo!’s open and social efforts in its consumer products, the company added.
The goal of the next generation of Yahoo! Mail is expected to be to address the changing communications needs of consumers by streamlining access to the most relevant and useful information, and helping users to become more productive, all from within their inbox, according to Yahoo!.
The company said that the smarter inbox experience features a new Yahoo! Mail welcome page which surfaces messages, information and activity updates from people users care about most, as well as an updated inbox and folder view that filters messages from those personal connections. The smarter Yahoo! Mail inbox also gives users immediate access to relevant third-party applications that can leverage the user’s email content, calendar and contacts with the user’s permission.
