Looking at the news on Yahoo! and Google blogs, I see them thinking about more features and upgrades. So, iPhone is something that we are going to see more mobile features being developed. Its no wonder because iPhone, after is something that comes from the Mac family. Well, Just wondering when they are going to hit Indian market !! or is it already here ? anyone ?

Whats the news that made me think all these, ?

Yahoo! Messenger for Mac, is getting voice feature on it soon !! Well, isn’t it good enough to avoid your mobile bills and just pay the bill for internet on your iPhone ? hmm this is a good one dear Yahoo! and and as far as I know, google is yet to have gtalk with voice on iPhone. If you guys know about it, just drop me a comment.

Now, whats Google doing with iPhone ?

“At Macworld today, version 1.1.3 of Apple’s iPhone software was announced that includes updates to Google Maps for mobile and IMAP access to Gmail. ”

Google Maps is something that I am yet to try something on. So, I can’t comment. But, its really interesting to see IMAP added to iPhone’s Gmail.

Whats IMAP ? If you need a technical explanation, go right here. To make it simple, earlier, when iPhone was just downloading the email from gmail, and keeping it in your phone. The changes that you make on these messages on your iPhone, will not have any effect on your gmail inbox because its already a local file. But with IMAP, you are directly dealing with the contents in your gmail inbox itself, real time.

The most important thing that I see here, is you get the “real” gmail in to your phone not, just a POP access, like normal email IDs of hosted websites ( they have IMAP too, FYI ). Once you have the real Gmail on your phone, don’t you think more feature are going to be added, sooner ?

Yahoo! always had its own approach to web 2.0 ( thats what I felt hmm ). It always tried to build its own social networking, its own communities etc. This may not be 100% true, but, when comparing to all those happenings in the web 2.0 world, Yahoo! tried to be different, in its own way. Now, here is a news that made me start thinking the other way, or perhaps, Yahoo has started thinking the other way too !!

Yahoo ! announced? Yahoo Shortcuts, which will automatically detect keywords on your blogpost and suggest links, enhancing and enriching the content. In the beta release, its being offered as a wordpress plugin !! You can read more about this here and get a free T shirt, for installing the plugin on your blog, provided you are located in the USA

For those who Boycott Blogger, you must start loving Yahoo now,Iin the Yahoo Google Cold War,? if google has is “blogger”, Yahoo can think about a? deal with wordpress right ?, if that is the case, Yahoo is on the right track. To confirm this, we will wait for more stuff coming out from Yahoo+wordpress team. If yahoo find this shortcut plugin performing well, I think they will bring more stuff,I am pretty sure ( voww who are you ? eh ? ). I think Mat, and all the wordpress team also understand this very well, because they are promoting this plugin very well also, the position of the plugin manager right on top of your “create new post” page, also suggests the same. . If things go pretty well, you should see the plugin soon on blogs hosted on wordpress.com too.

I am giving this plugin a try, should go through old posts to test them. Do you want to read a review from me ? Did you find this plugin useful ? drop your comments here !

Update : I am loving this flickr photo and yahoo finance badge.. I dont have to search for images, download them, or link them … I still need to find more stuff !! what you think ? Isn’t it making the posts enriched ?