Mail:
Advertise the fact that Yahoo! Mail supports IMAP very nicely while getting an ActiveSync license up and running ASAP for calendar and contacts (and email). Advertise that it supports unlimited email. I have >15 gigs of work email in addition to my Yahoo! mail (dating back to 1995) and I can store all of it in my Yahoo! account.
Yahoo! Mail's Web client is already the fastest and most attractive of the "big three", but the back-end stuff needs work, especially SPAM detection which was industry leading...5 years ago.
News:
Stop mucking with it. It is the best news portal on the Web for simply reading the news, bar none, but they keep changing the layout, etc., and when they do, simple things start breaking regularly -- like emailing an article. Make sure the features work before working on flashiness. Also, do something about the quality of the comments, which are downright distressingly racist, homophobic, etc.
Search:
Start treating search like a first class citizen. Bing-powered results are usually superior to Google's unless one is looking up scholarly information. Can Yahoo! value-add on this front?
Social:
How about hosting a Diaspora node and working hard to influence the project's development? Diaspora is in Alpha now, but I suspect it will land like a bomb when it is finally released. Be in on the ground floor. And earn some goodwill.
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