Yahoo has launched its revamped email service, following a beta test, with a raft of new video and social media features.
Yahoo first introduced its online email service in October as a beta test. It will now roll out the final version to its 284 million users worldwide today.
The service is available in 43 markets and 26 languages around the world.
The new service Yahoo includes some new social networking features, including the ability to respond to Facebook friends from right inside an email rather than jumping to Facebook. Users can also view slideshows and video from links directly inside their email.
Yahoo has also prioritised contacts in the service, pushing email from those in the address book to the top of unread messages.
Users can also text and instant message from inside the email program. In addition, all instant messages and text messages are archived by default.
Yahoo has also included some apps in its email service from third parties, such as the mega-file sending service YouSendIt, and the invitation application Evite.
Blake Irving, Yahoo chief product officer, said: “Yahoo’s vision for online communications brings together all the tools that people use to connect — email, chat, SMS and social updates — and makes it easier for them to share content and engage in conversations with the people that matter most to them.”
