Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! made a deal with the online communications company Four11 for co-branded white pages. Marvin Gavin, who worked at Four11 as the Director of International Business Development, said "We always had a bias about being acquired by Yahoo. They were more entrepreneurial than Microsoft. We had a great cultural fit – it made a lot of sense." In the end, Yahoo! acquired Four11 for $96 million. The purpose behind acquiring Four11 was the company's RocketMail webmail service, which launched in 1997. Yahoo! announced the acquisition on October 8, 1997, close to the time that Yahoo! Mail was launched. Yahoo! chose acquisition rather than internal platform development, because, as Healy said, "Hotmail was growing at thousands and thousands users per week. We did an analysis. For us to build, it would have taken four to six months, and by then, so many users would have taken an email account. The speed of the market was critical."
Yaminoys
The Yaminoys thread transferred to Etrainstation.com when the latter was created on May 18, 2006. The Yaminoys Yahoo group was born ten days before that, with the initial goal of having 100 members; this was achieved in June 2006. At that point, members brainstormed on ways to make Elliott aware that he had an active fan base in the Philippines and convince him to come to the country for a concert. These included sending him a birthday gift, posting updates on his MySpace page regarding the status of the group, and coordinating with his marketing arm, the Croshal Entertainment Group, to ask for updates on when his debut and self-titled album would be available in the Philippines. The group would also request radio stations to play Elliott's first single "Wait For You" following its official release in the U.S., and track its status.