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Kyle Huang

Yahoo!Mail Open their APIs

Yahoo is opening their e-mail system APIs to third party developers recently. Furthermore, he also anounced the unlimited storage for Yahoo!Mail previously.

What it shows is that we are getting another cheap storage on the cyber-world. Wow, it's Cool. You can save all of your emails to Yahoo without warry about the storage. Files, documents, pictures, almost anything can be uploaded without limitation.

How do you think if we create Aspose.Network.Yahoo which leverages the unlimited Yahoo!Mail storage. .NET developers just use it as a normal FileSystem without regarding the complicated network programming. It sounds like a nice component.

 

Published Friday, March 30, 2007 9:58 PM by iret

Comments

 

Jagsoft said:

What happens when the unlimited storage is pulled due to high volumn of content?
Is it really feasible to base developement time for something that may just disappear?
When a service like this is used for storage of all content without any cost to the user it is inevitable that it will be widely abused which will have adverse effects for all other users.

Just my 2 cents.
March 30, 2007 7:37 AM
 

iret said:

There are so many email service providers, like microsoft live, google gmail. All of them provide a huge space for email boxes. I guess we can distribute our storage among different providers. So that the risk can be reduced.
April 3, 2007 9:24 PM
 

brr said:

Jagsoft, good point. However, if you can "use it as a normal FileSystem" object there's really little risk of lost time.  Simply fall back to local storage if Yahoo buckles. You might lose some yahoo-specific code related to latency, etc. But, most of your code would read just like FileSystem and thus remain unchanged. I think a generalized interface for yahoo, et al is a super idea.  Please consider implementing...
April 4, 2007 10:40 AM
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