Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) this week launched an enhanced version of its Mail service. The service is set to filter messages according to relationships, manage friends and family connections and activities. Yahoo has also opened the service to third party developers to come up with new social engaging applications and hopes to integrate with social sites like Facebook and MySpace in future. The changes to Yahoo Mail offer users a “smarter in-box” experience that the company said it will roll out gradually to its users during the coming months.

As the change expands across all regions, Yahoo Mail users will find a new “Welcome Page” that will include messages, information and activity updates from people users have identified as important as well as an updated in-box and folder view that filters messages from personal connections…Read more