Pingbox now available for Facebook
March 12, 2009 on 8:00 am | In Other services, Pingbox | Add a Comment
Pingbox, our embeddable IM application for web pages, is now available for Facebook. Now you can put a Pingbox on your Facebook profile, and visitors to your page can IM you without having to download or sign into Yahoo! Messenger.
To add a Pingbox to your page, visit the Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox application page on Facebook. The same customization tools are available in the Facebook version, so you can personalize your online and offline greeting, choose from dozens of designs, and if you wish, require your visitors to give themselves a nickname before they can IM you.
With the Pingbox app, your friends can IM you from your profile page even when you’re not on Facebook.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
[...] With Pingbox set up, anyone who visits your Facebook page sees a chat window that invites them to send a message. Doing so initiates a chat through Yahoo Messenger–but you have to be using Messenger version 8.1 or the current 9.0. [...]
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Comment by Attia — March 12, 2009 #
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Comment by chadeh — March 12, 2009 #
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are they going to make it for myspace to
Comment by eric schmidt — March 13, 2009 #
to eric schmidt:
The Pingbox already works on myspace. I have one on mine and it works just fine.
Comment by Cliff — March 13, 2009 #
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Hi YM Team,
The pingbox DOESNT work with Yahoo Messenger for Blackberry.
Altough my YM for Blackberry is online, the pingbox keeps showing offline status
Comment by Michael Pranolo — March 13, 2009 #
@Michael -
You need to be signed into one of our desktop versions (9.0, Mac) or Yahoo! Messenger for the Web for your Pingbox to show you as online.
Note that being signed into Messenger in Yahoo! Mail will also not show you as online in your Pingbox.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — March 13, 2009 #
I just added Pingbox and invited my friends to try it out. One little thing though: why only show 10 characters (including space!) of my name? There are plenty of room in the header area…
Comment by Michael — March 13, 2009 #
Hi I love yahoo messenger soooooo coooollllllllll!!!!!!
Comment by Baheya — March 14, 2009 #
pingbox is always showing offline, did all the steps on the help page , googled for more help and still showing offline. signed into yahoo messenger 9.0 and yahoo messenger on the web and still offline. why??????. Is it a problem with the facebook website?
Comment by basharam — March 14, 2009 #
@eric schmidt -
You can create a Pingbox for MySpace (or other kinds of webpages) through the studio on our website:
http://messenger.yahoo.com/pingbox
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — March 14, 2009 #
Hmmm… I couldn’t find it anywhere. No ping for me.
Comment by Val — March 15, 2009 #
I just added Pingbox and invited my friends to try it out. One little thing though: why only show 10 characters (including space!) of my name? There are plenty of room in the header area…
Comment by benseanghour — March 15, 2009 #
Hi Im very happy to counct with facebook and I love yahoo messenger
Comment by Nasier — March 15, 2009 #
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when u going to have it for myyearbook
Comment by Sam R. — March 16, 2009 #
The leading metro in communication is yahoo messsager,faster in reaching people aroung the globe…………yahoo. thumb up for you.
Comment by Moses C Adeyemi — March 16, 2009 #
its sooper and cool for me ………..
Comment by Hashim — March 17, 2009 #
@Sam R. -
You can probably use a regular version of Pingbox on myyearbook. Just go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/pingbox to create one, get the code, and drop it into your myyearbook page.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — March 17, 2009 #
hmm sounds interesting a facebook pingbox hopefully it is successful if it is not i am switching back to yahoo messenger..
Comment by Torey Sanders — March 17, 2009 #
HI MY NAME BEVERLY AND I LIKE FRIENDS
Comment by BEVERLYDEMERS — March 17, 2009 #
I was wondering if there is anyway to set it so the PingBox will send to your mobile. I can get my Messenger to forward to my mobile, but when I set it to forward any IMs to my cell the PingBox shows as being offline.
Could this be an option that could be added as I would find it very helpful?
Comment by Boo — March 18, 2009 #
can u put yahoo messenger on other sites also?
Comment by patricia — March 18, 2009 #
@Patricia,
Yes, you can put a Pingbox on almost any webpage. Just go to the Pingbox studio on our site to create one and grab the code for it – then drop it into your webpage.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/pingbox
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — March 18, 2009 #
where in the face book is this IM? couldn’t get …. plz let me know…. where it locat to instll YM ping to FB?
Comment by Rohit — March 18, 2009 #
respected Administrator,
where in the FB could i find the YM ping box?
I agree with – Torey Sanders, if it swith to YM, there is no value of publising this :
Pingbox now available for Facebook
Comment by Rohit Taujale — March 18, 2009 #
ok jes suis daccord
Comment by cyrus — March 18, 2009 #
I would love to have that on my fb but can I be seen as offline if I’m at fb and busy doing something like downloading photos? Because when I’m checking my emails I appear online and so I have to sign in to yahoo msgr just to appear offline while reading and answering my emails. It happens to me all the time whenever I forget to sign in first to YM. I don’t want to be doing double sign in.Pls help.
Comment by Floubeth — March 19, 2009 #
is very comfortable and eay to use
Comment by alieu — March 19, 2009 #
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Do i have to be signed into facebook to use the pingbox? I am blocked from the website at work but can use my instant messangers. I was thinking of doing the facebook set up from home so that i can chat with my friends still.
Comment by Angela — March 20, 2009 #
@Angela,
You’ll need to be able to sign into Facebook to add the application to your page. But you don’t need to be on Facebook for the Pingbox to work, that’s the whole idea. As long as you’re signed into Messenger, your Pingbox on Facebook shows you as online (even if you’re not ON Facebook).
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — March 20, 2009 #
I like it…it’s awesome for my Facebook account…that’s all I have to say about it…
Comment by Gabby — March 21, 2009 #
Hi
Note sure why my pingbox dropdown does not show in my Yahho Meesenger on the Ipod Touch. Does pingbox only work on the full Yahoo Messenger PC edition ?
Comment by Junovo — May 24, 2009 #
today just know about the pingBox..
already apply it to my friendster and facebook page.
why pingbox show me as offline but i online with YM 9.0 current version.?
Comment by nadh — May 27, 2009 #
@nadh,
Please see this article for help with getting your pingbox to show you as online:
http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/03/17/always-showing-offline-on-pingbox/
Sarah Bacon
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Hello,
I added pingbox today for facebook, blogger & myspace and none of them show me online. I have the latest version on YM. I’ve also googled this problem. went to a back level of YM and it still didn’t work. I’m back to the latest 9.0 version now.
Any ideas?
Comment by Nikki — June 30, 2009 #
Wow looks nice! I’ll try it out for my pages… Thanks for the share.
Comment by David Unlock Facebook — August 3, 2010 #
Where is the “Add To Profile” button to add my Pingbox to my profile in Facebook? I don’t see it anywhere…did I skip a step or something? How do I get to it?
Comment by Gene — August 12, 2010 #
very cool!
Comment by Indra Saputra Ahmadi — August 21, 2010 #
When I click go to application.. all is white.. any ideas?
Comment by Damid — October 17, 2010 #
Hi. I’ve read the problem above about pingbox and ym for BB. I’m just wondering if we can already have our status online on pingbox when we signed in using our Blackberry. Maybe Yahoo! have updated this feature in the newest version. Thank you.
Comment by Andre — December 7, 2010 #
I cannot get the ping box to show on my facebook webiste. I have done everything I can. Followed all of the instructions. I didn’t embed code though, but I don’t get why it doesn’t show on my facebook website. I set it up on my person website without any problems, just embed code, but cannot get the facebook app to work on my facebook pages?
The only part I cannot work out is where I have to click to add to site. There is no button to click above the instructions where this is written, on the “How does it work” page of the apps set-up pages.
Anyway, if anyone can help that would be really good, because I would love to get this working.
J
Comment by Jeremy — December 31, 2010 #
ya.. i have the same problem to… i cannot get the ping box on my facebook, there is no button to click above….
Comment by devid — March 9, 2011 #
There is a message that I like yahoo.
Comment by Buy MBT — June 24, 2011 #
“I cannot get the ping box to show on my facebook webiste. I have done everything I can. Followed all of the instructions. I didn’t embed code though, but I don’t get why it doesn’t show on my facebook website. I set it up on my person website without any problems, just embed code, but cannot get the facebook app to work on my facebook pages?
The only part I cannot work out is where I have to click to add to site. There is no button to click above the instructions where this is written, on the “How does it work” page of the apps set-up pages.”
this problem is with most of us, kindly tell how to add pingbox on facebook as there is no button to click above when trying to add
Comment by sammi — June 26, 2011 #
Hi,
Do you have any plans to add the ability to show your pingbox online via the app rather than having to run a PC version? as this would be fantastic
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Comment by Constance Louch — May 1, 2012 #
Hi,
I Have visited http://myc101.msg.bf1.yahoo.com/pingbox/studio/ and after i have fill-in all the necessary details and clicked on Next button, the page will just load and a small window will pop up in the within the page and says “Your session has expired. Please click refresh to continue.” with Refresh Button bellow the message and whenever i click on refresh button and i fill-in my details again the same message keep on coming up. Please let me know if you can help me to solve that.
Regards,
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Can anyone at yahoo tell me if there is plans to add the ability to use the pingbox via the mobile app ( iphone etc ) as others have also asked this, this is a feature that if not added makes my use of pingbox pretty redundant really
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