Yahoo planing to give Yahoo mail code

By Praneeth • October 2, 2006

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EconomicTimes: Yahoo Inc. is set to allow outsiders to create new services using Yahoo mail

In a move to encourage outsiders to develop new applications based on Yahoo mail yahoo is palning to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail

The move, which will happen later this year, was announced as part of a ‘Yahoo! Hack Day’ where it has invited more than 500 most youthful outside programmers to build new applications using Yahoo services

The move is designed to spark development of thousands of new e-mail applications built not only by Yahoo engineers but by outside companies and individuals. Currently only Yahoo! Mail and certain broadband partners like AT&T and BT are granted such access to the code