Vote for Y! Messenger: About.com IM Awards
February 17, 2009 on 12:09 pm | In 9.0 version, Mac version, Pingbox | 27 Comments
For the second year in a row, About.com readers nominated Yahoo! Messenger as a finalist in several of the categories for the Best IM Awards of 2009. We hope you’ll take a moment to vote for us and help us hold onto our title from last year.
Click a category below and once on the page, click the Yahoo! Messenger listing to vote for us (you’ll also see current results after you vote).
2) Best Mac IM – Yahoo! Messenger for Mac
4) Best IM Feature – Pingbox | (What’s Pingbox?)
Thanks to the About.com readers for nominating us in these categories and special thanks to those of you that cast a vote. Voting ends Sunday, March 15, 2009 at midnight EST.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Wow, that competition is soooo weak! I’ve never heard of Brosix, they’re probably the biggest about.com sponsors.
Comment by mrm — February 17, 2009 #
1) maybe
2) By far, nooo.
3) One update/year on the Mac side. . uhh. good one.
4) What’s Pingbox (kidding)
5) maybe
Comment by Lucretiu — February 17, 2009 #
I am satisfied with IM with Yahoo.com.
Comment by betty — February 17, 2009 #
1. Yes
2. may be
3. right
4. very nice
5. That’s I like
Comment by Shrikant — February 17, 2009 #
go on!
1. sure
2. may be (I really love Adium)
3. right
4. very nice
5. yep
Comment by Diogo Shaw — February 18, 2009 #
Interesting results on the Best Chat Client Poll, 38% of the Voters Picked Yahoo Chat, and probably more then accurate to say of those that voted for it 99% Bot, 1% Human, Or The Make Up Of Most Of Yahoo’s Chat Rooms. Which is Why I Pay For PalTalk.
Comment by Tom — February 18, 2009 #
lol, not a chance, fix the bugs then it might be worth considering.
Comment by Tommy — February 18, 2009 #
I’ll vote for you once you fix the server issue that keeps making Messenger spontaneously log in and out for me. I’ve seen several people complain about this same issue, yet it has not been addressed. Before you start blaming my computer, I’ve checked for issues with a variety of programs and there is nothing wrong. Please check out whatever is going on with the server, thanks.
Comment by Seth — February 18, 2009 #
Congrats..
I luv the messenger. .
Comment by Mithun Ashok — February 18, 2009 #
I need to use Y! Messenger, but it’s unconceivable it has months (years) throwing DEP errors on Windows. DEP is a valuable protection against hackers but I have to deactivate it just so Y! will agree to install. Not the best experience, not the most improved.
Comment by DoItRight — February 18, 2009 #
well now what an honor! but yet still not logging in for some strange reason,,ugh
Comment by ree — February 18, 2009 #
I would love to give YIM an all around thumbs up. But I can’t, and here’s why. YIM works perfectly on my desktop which runs on Windows XP service pack 3. But on my laptop (which I use regularly) is not the same story.
My laptop runs on Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit. I can barely stay online with YIM for any given amount of time because the messenger keeps crashing on me. I would love for yahoo to find a way to fix this issue as I am not the only one on a 64 bit platform that is having this issue.
Yahoo’s most recent bug fix appears to have only fixed the issues they were having with the previous 32 bit platform of windows vista.
So for now in all categories Yahoo Messenger gets a big thumbs down. Now don’t get me wrong I love this messenger a lot, its even the one that I prefer over any others simply because Yahoo offers features that others do not have.
Please Yahoo I hope you hear my plea and find a way to get Yahoo Messenger to work with Windows Vista 64 bit.
Thank you,
Rachel
Comment by Rachel — February 19, 2009 #
Adium is waaaaay better. Fix your webcam issues and maybe I’ll vote for you. I’m sure half of your votes for best mac client come from yahoo employees.
Comment by James — February 20, 2009 #
This poll failed. you guys cheating!
Comment by yolarrydabomb — February 21, 2009 #
I not voting until you fix the bugs.
Comment by yolarrydabomb — February 21, 2009 #
wooooooooow i Love Y Messanger 9.0 its great .i vote for 100 % .great… Yahoo is my best .
Comment by Sara Rubi — February 22, 2009 #
So cool…
Comment by Rosa — February 22, 2009 #
The client is not worthy of best at anything, but it does work in Vista 64. I have had zero issues with it.
Comment by Chris — February 23, 2009 #
Best Overall IM Experience
2) Best Mac IM – Yahoo! Messenger for Mac
3) Most Improved IM Client
4) Best IM Feature – Pingbox | (What’s Pingbox?)
5) Best IM (GUI) Design
1. Yes i agree
2 You should do stand up lmao! hell no!!!!
3. Improved how so?? it isn’t it has got WORSE added features annoying CAPCHA more ads! more exploits FAIL!
4. I have NEVER EVER seen a pingbox in use who uses those things??? but ok lol @ you putting whats a pingbox in brackets its that unknown!
5. If you love bloatware and even the simple ability to use native skins then i suppose so o wait yahoo no longer has skins it has ”different colors” what a joke.
Comment by Karl — February 24, 2009 #
Enough aside, where do I find the Pingbox? Wanna give that a try seeing as how I haven’t.
Comment by User — February 24, 2009 #
Pingbox is neat! However no matter what I do it says I’m not online, but I am signed into messenger. Do I have to not be invisible when trying it? I am set to allow messages from those not on my ignore list. This is something that very few IM services offer, Way to go Yahoo! Keep on rockin
Comment by User — February 24, 2009 #
To Karl:
The Pingbox is a pretty useful (when it works) flash-based YIM client for anyone to use, without a Y! ID. Think live support chat, but run by yahoo, and free.
Comment by User — February 27, 2009 #
Yay! My pingbox is working! I have to say, that this is probably one of Yahoo’s greatest toys out there! I like how one doesn’t need to have my Y!ID or even have one of their own to get in touch with me! I am definitely putting a Pingbox on all my pages. A+ to this, one big A+.
Now, if only 9.0 had the classic skin that 8.1/5.6 did. 9.0 as it is is way out of place on a classic Windows setup. (XP SP2 in Classic Windows mode.)
Comment by Cliff (User) — February 27, 2009 #
its. a nice program thanks…..
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