Yahoo goes the Unlimited Way and Reliances BIG plans for an ADDA

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Yahoo! Mail goes the Unlimited Way

Yahoo is announcing that all Yahoo Mail users will have free unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. The current storage limit is 1 GB per account (2 GB for $20/year premium users). With this change, Yahoo leapfrogs Gmail (2.8 GB and growing) and Live.com Mail (2GB). Though Rediff.com (Rediffmail), primarily an Indian mail service went the unlimited way earlier this month. Yahoo mail currently has 250 million global users, more than any other online service (Live.com has 228 million and Gmail has 51 million users).

When Yahoo! Mail launched 10 years ago, users got 4MB of storage for their entire mailbox. This was still pretty considerable in those days. These days an MP3 song would be a enough to fill that space up.
In 2004 they increased the inbox size to 100 MB, and 1 GB in 2005.

Infact I still keep my 9 year old email iD at Yahoo active by logging in every second month, only to shudder seeing the astronomical figure of junk mails in the inbox!

I guess it is only a matter of time before Gmail follows suit and all others do the same too. Imagine having a hard disk drive which you can never completely fill up!

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The BIG ADDA and the Reliance connection

Reliance is all set with the sabse bada ADDA! The BigAdda!
Company officials, however, declined to comment, saying only that they’ll divulge more once things are finalized.

But have a look at this:

The domain name ‘bigadda.com’ has been registered by Nikhil Soman of Reliance Entertainment, and the name servers are hosted with Zapak.

BigAdda is currently having a logo poll up at their site...

ADDA does go well with the ADA Group and BIG is also Reliance Entertainment's FM channel.
Apart from that adda does capture the essential Indian essence and mentality of a hub and gossip. It has been difficult for players like Yaari and Minglebox to eat into the Social Networking pie which is pretty dominated in India by Orkut, but these 2 are also few of the relatively successful ones. There's around a dozen social networking sites around in India and more coming up each passing day.

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