Yahoo! Adds Web API For Yahoo! Mail
This post is brought to you by: Light Bulbs and FixturesYahoo! has announced a new Web API for their Email service. The Web API is accessible via SOAP and JSON-RPC, and offers developers access, to the Yahoo! Mail core functions:
“With the Yahoo! Mail Web Service, you can connect to the core mail platform to perform typical mailbox tasks for premium users such as list messages and folders, and compose and send messages (you can also build mail preview tools for free users with limited Web Service functionality). In other words, developers outside of Yahoo! can now build mail tools or applications on the same infrastructure we use to build the highly-scaled Yahoo! Mail service that serves nearly 250 million Yahoo! Mail users today.”
Yahoo! Mail Web Service developers can also earn referral commissions by building compelling applications targeted at premium email users. For a trial period, Yahoo! Mail is offering an incentive for developers to build applications using the full functionality available for premium Yahoo! Mail accounts. Specifically, Yahoo! Mail is currently providing a commission of $10.00 for every new Yahoo! Mail Plus account referred by approved developers.
Add comment April 2nd, 2007
