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Notes and seamlessly interact with anyone from anywhere based on demand. The term online
collaboration tool can be used to refer to any Internet application that facilitates on-demand
collaboration of a geographically dispersed team. These tools are a windfall for businesses
which have to communicate/share/transfer business related information in real-time. By
enabling instant online collaboration, the collaboration tools help you save time and costs,
which is otherwise spent on traveling. Also, the tools enable you to involve more relevant
persons into decision-making process to chalk time-driven business strategies.

12.1 Evaluating Web Mail Services

There is a better way to manage your email—in the form of web based email services, also
known as web mail or HTTP email. Unlike traditional POP email, web mail can be accessed
from any PC using any web browser, and all your messages are stored on the web, not locally.
It’s just like a cloud service; no special software required. This lets you retrieve and manage your
email when you’re out of the office or on the road.

12.1.1 Gmail

Gmail offers a few unique features that set it apart from the web-based email crowd. First, Gmail
doesn’t use folders. That’s right, with Gmail you can’t organize your mail into folders, as you
can with the other services.

Instead, Gmail pushes the search paradigm as the way to find the messages you want—not a
surprise, given Google’s search-centric business model. Gmail does, however, let you “tag”
each message with one or more labels. This has the effect of creating virtual folders, as you can
search and sort your messages by any of their labels. Gmail groups together related email
messages in what Google calls conversations. A conversation might be an initial message and
all the replies (and replies to replies) to that message; a conversation might also be all the daily
emails from a single source that have a common subject, such as messages from subscribed-to
mailing lists.

12.1.2 Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! Mail is a free email service offered by the American search engine company Yahoo! It
was launched in 1997, and, according to comScore, Yahoo! Mail is the third-largest web-based
email service with 281 million users as of December 2012. Some of the new or improved features
included in the new Yahoo! Mail were:
Yahoo! Calendar integration
Yahoo! Messenger integration

Windows Live Messenger integration
SMS Messaging in certain countries
Keyboard shortcuts

Unlimited storage
Improved search facilities
Applications (Piknic, Flickr, Wordpress and more)

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