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Yahoo! Mail opened to mash-up makers

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The world's number one internet company Yahoo has opened up the code to its popular web-based email system Yahoo! Mail to enable outside developers to create web-based applications based on the platform.

Yahoo, like other web services providers, intends to tap into a new wave of web applications development that involves taking elements from a variety web services and creating a hybrid application called a mash-up.

A number of SaaS (software as a service) providers, such as Salesforce.com and Google, are leading the charge to incorporate elements of their web-based applications in other services in mash-ups.

Google Maps, for instance, is being used by a number of real-estate sites to enable visitors to view the location of properties that they may be interested in purchasing.

Yahoo! Mail, with more than 250 million users, is the most popular web-based mail service and its latest Ajax -based version has received positive reviews with many critics saying that it rivals desktop based mail systems for performance and usability.

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