Yahoo! Messenger for the Web: new release
September 24, 2007 on 2:59 pm | In Web version | 25 Comments
This afternoon we released an update to Yahoo! Messenger for the Web. This new release includes:
– Save your thumbs! Now you can send text messages (SMS) to your friends’ mobile phones for free, right from Yahoo! Messenger for the Web. When your friend replies, it comes back to you in Messenger. You’ll notice the contact list is now divided into two areas: regular IM contacts and Mobile Contacts.
SMS is only available when messaging to mobile phones in the U.S., India and Canada. Note that it’s free for you to SMS from Messenger but your friends will incur any applicable data charges from their carrier to receive your messages.
– Brand new, local language versions for Thailand and Indonesia.
– 9 new languages for the Indian version (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada). After signing in at http://in.webmessenger.yahoo.com, start an IM with a friend and choose the Indian language you want to chat in from a drop-down menu.
If you haven’t already, give Yahoo! Messenger for the Web a try. There’s no download required, making it really handy when you’re at work, on the road or away from your own computer.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Hi Sarah,
Since Yahoo! China opened the registration of ‘@yahoo.cn’ account, is there a plan to support those accounts in US version Yahoo! Messenger? Currently users can only use ‘@yahoo.cn’ account with Chinese version Yahoo! Messenger.
Thanks, William
Comment by William Cai — September 24, 2007 #
honestly, i’ve been using the online web version more and more since my yahoo keeps crashing after the 421 version update.
plz come out with a patched version without the crashes, i’m tired of loosing my convos
Comment by Homer — September 25, 2007 #
Cool.
Comment by Jaunty Mellifluous — September 25, 2007 #
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Woo hoo – congratulations guys! It just keeps getting better!
Comment by Darryl Eaton — September 25, 2007 #
when will i get my offline messages back?i like to see messages i would miss if im not online
Comment by fly_away1971 — September 25, 2007 #
I cannot write in romanian with either YM or WebYM. Both do not recognize Ș and Ț (two letters from the romanian alphabet) when they are typed under Vista.
It’s not an uncommon issue, see the explanation of it by Michael Kaplan ( Technical Lead in the International Fundamentals team at Microsoft ) at http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2007/09/27/5141426.aspx
This issue can be solved by fully supporting Unicode in YM.
Also, the interface of YM is not translated in romanian, while Windows Live Messenger and Pidgin are already translated. I could do this translation for free, I already translated many programs (see at the bottom of the home page of my site).
Comment by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu — September 28, 2007 #
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Congratulations..Its really beautiful experience ton convey our expressions with yahoos smileys.. no doubt we have such fan following …All the very best
Comment by Rao — September 28, 2007 #
is wos vwry cool
Comment by tiko — September 29, 2007 #
Hey Sarah! We have the same last name! I can’t beleieve it! I have never met anyone, other than my family, with the last name Bacon.
Comment by camera bacon — October 1, 2007 #
excellent
Comment by Hassan — October 1, 2007 #
I tried to use the mobile service yesterday and it didn’t work.
Comment by Tonia — October 4, 2007 #
I tried to use the mobile servie and it did not work.
Comment by Bhavna — October 22, 2007 #
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hello, there, yeah i like to used this messeger beta, i like it,,,coz i can used two windows in one comp,thanks about this,,
Comment by lucy — October 27, 2007 #
and i know someone here too,, ok, thanks alots for messenger beta,,,,,its good,
Comment by lucy — October 27, 2007 #
Great development, i will try asap
Comment by dhira — March 6, 2008 #
hi!…im so glad to know about this messenger cause i can use my two yahoo id in one computer and its fun,,,,,,some of my friend doesnt know about this and they are wondering?hhhm….a lot of thanks for this guys…this is so good……u
Comment by jessa — March 30, 2008 #
But the problem is Yahoo! web messenger crashes now and then
Comment by Sridhar — October 1, 2008 #
I’m using Yahoo! Messenger for the web Every time when I load the message history, I get an error message .It says “There was a problem loading your message history.” I checked option and both “ask before deleting” and “enable message history” were ok.
I have two Ids that only one of them has this problem and I can not view my message history. what do I should to doing for this problem, please help me.
Comment by nima — November 16, 2009 #
nima, this is a common problem that nobody knows how to solve. It is a major webmessenger bug.
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