Winner in the About.com IM Awards
March 24, 2009 on 1:23 pm | In 9.0 version, Mac version, News | 25 Comments
We did it! With the help of your votes, we retained our title and won several more categories in the 2009 About.com IM Awards.
After 160,339 votes were cast, we won the following awards:
Best IM Client of the Year
Best Mac IM
Most Improved IM
Best Chat Rooms
Best Designed IM (GUI)
Thanks to everyone who voted for us – we really appreciate it!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
yup, i voted! congrats to us all
))))))) and now.. get us more cool features!!! LOL
Comment by NRG — March 24, 2009 #
Isn’t it way past due for Yahoo to enforce its anti booting and anti botting rules in chat rooms? Why cant Yahoo spend just a few minutes each day to remove the accounts of those abusers? I would suggest that to determine those that are violating this rule are pathetically easy to spot, and remove. It seems that the pride Yahoo has for its awards does not warrant taking steps to remove those that continually abused users in its chat rooms. Oh well…
Comment by lamar — March 24, 2009 #
Best Mac IM? Maybe in terms of popularity or something but I think it’s more than clear that is not true. All it has that Adium doesn’t have is voice and video. That’s it.
Still, congrats.
Comment by Lucretiu — March 24, 2009 #
Congrats!!!
Comment by Amit Rathiesh — March 24, 2009 #
I agree Lamar…the people that voted for those awards must not use Yahoo very much. Chat is HORRIBLE with spam and bots and all sorts of nasties and I am lucky if IMs work half of the time.
Comment by Melanie — March 24, 2009 #
More like ‘best of the worst’
Comment by Chris — March 24, 2009 #
WoooHooo, Yahoo!!!!
Congrats! Now, bring on some new and great tweaks to messenger in celebration.
Comment by Regulo — March 24, 2009 #
Best Chatrooms? Seriously?
Were the bots voting?
Comment by Irie — March 24, 2009 #
Great, now fix yahoo messenger!!!
Comment by Cristi — March 25, 2009 #
Please make the next release look like the YM Vista… Pleaseeeeeee!!!!
Comment by IAMME — March 25, 2009 #
Darn. I never got to vote. Well at least Yahoo won!
Comment by Jordan — March 25, 2009 #
* Pingbox now available for Facebook
* Always showing offline on Pingbox?
* Address Book Errors
then… “Winner in the About.com IM Awards”
What the…. fun !
Comment by uDiK — March 25, 2009 #
Best IM?Thats a joke…musta been all yahoo employees voting because it sure wasnt anyone I know that uses it.
Most Improved IM?Best Chat Rooms?….Those are both big jokes,it really had to be a inside job.
Comment by Amanda — March 25, 2009 #
LMFAO @ best chat rooms good grief that is a joke no doubt these negative comments will be removed 99.99% are negative go figure does that not tell you something? the rooms are rife with spam bots a good 70% of all users are automated bots how on earth did you win this …. do you gues go in chat the dev team i mean maybe you should and see why no one likes it make a poll bare in mind this would be biast because they are yahoo users coming here it will still show what a shambles your chat rooms are
Comment by Karl Mayhew — March 25, 2009 #
allthough I use yahoo messenger…live messenger beta is NO 1 …you didn’t improve nothing…is the same old yahoo mess 8 in a new coat…try to make bigger smileys..bigger avatars…more features like .gif avatars…then you will be really NO1 …
Comment by sebastian — March 25, 2009 #
I voted too! Yahoo IM is indeed the best around.
Comment by Cliff — March 25, 2009 #
Best things about yahoo messenger are very expressive smileys. Pingbox and audibles are recent innovative and cool features, but probably not used as widely. Everything else is more or less the same it was in 1998 with just new and resource heavy skins. Things like chat rooms and offline messages were flawless and clean back in 1998, since then they have been changed only to introduce new bugs in the original code…
Nevertheless, not due to these reasons, but its about time yahoo wrote messenger client in JAVA from scratch, so that it can be run on any device including desktops, laptops, netbooks and various new handheld devices. Semiconductor industry is advancing rapidly and we now have processors capable of running web browsers and full fledged IM clients on hand held devices. What is different though with handheld devices is that very few of them have Windows OS that yahoo has been relying on so far. They have Android, mac, linux, symbian and many other proprietary and open source OSes. JAVA works on all of them…
If yahoo does not take this step now, they will be left behind. Google made the best search engine while back and left its competitors baffling to improve their search engines. Thus diverting yahoo’s attention, they have slowly started adding all services that yahoo has been offering since its conception. I am not sure if yahoo realizes this yet, but google has been copying yahoo secretly and it is creating an impression that baffled yahoo is now copying google. Mentioning few of the things google copied from yahoo are finance.google.com, background themes in gmail, documents.google.com is a copy of briefcase.yahoo.com but yahoo never payed attention to it and never cared to improve it since 1998 untill google took their idea and took it to the next level.
Comment by Saurabh — March 26, 2009 #
BEST CHATROOMS?!?!?!?
You gotta be kidding. That HAD to be Yahoo employees stuffing the ballot.
Sound always failing. Cams that don’t connect. Random disconnects. (Not boots.) More bots than people in rooms. Suddenly logged out of chat.
What a sham award. I’d laugh if I didn’t remember how chatrooms USED to be.
Comment by mal_igned — March 30, 2009 #
I had never used any other messenger than yahoo, so I can’t tell if this one is the best, but i can say that the interface of yahoo messenger for vista is far more practical to use then the messenger 9!Too bad it was never finished.I am very disappointed!
Comment by 1n50mn1ack — March 30, 2009 #
I don’t really know how did you win those titles…
In my opinion, version 9 is the worst ever. It crashes a lot, windows shutdown can’t really shutdown from time to time, and the only thing that hangs is the messenger, it takes ages to load, overloaded with flash ads (like the yahoo search page) which causes serious processor overload…and for some reason, nobody seems to care…
As long as business is good…I can see your point. The only reason that I still use it, is because of my many contacts, and voice is not yet implemented to work with Live Messenger. The constant errors when trying to change contact details is driving me nuts. I’ve read that it’s because of service upgrade, how many years will take?
Thank you.
Comment by Kawa — March 31, 2009 #
Congr’s but still not true, booting programs’ editor are much better and smart the Yahoo Comp. crew !!!
up to now, YAhoo stand astonished in front of booters and bots.
they have faked Administrator in the rooms, doing nothing, just a faked presence too, to say ” we monitor our chat rooms”. Still Yahoo is a commercial company looking for money, that’s it !!
Comment by ihap said — April 1, 2009 #
Yahoo chat rooms as the best experience on line for chat? What a joke. We used to have a pleasant entertaining private chat room every evening for 5 years until some snot nosed knucklehead at Yahoo removed our ability to create a private chat room each evening. We had over 300 members from around the globe who would line up each evening to enter our 30 seat night club and we had spectacular parties every night. We had 5 couples who met in our chat room and who eventually got married. On one occasion we had an international memorial service for one of our dear members who passed away from breast cancer. At present Yahoo chat rooms are nothing more that a porn bot delivery system for their porn advertisers and this sophmoric claim by Yahoo that they are the best chat room experience is based on this voting is ludicrous. Anyone who knows anything about on line chatting knows better.
Comment by BJ Dorval — April 7, 2009 #
I don’t believe that Yahoo won the Best Chat rooms. I want to know where they are??? Every single room in chat is overrun with bots and spam, or are being run by manical booters that love to spoil a room just for fun. All the complaining, reporting for abuse and asking for moderated chat has gone on deaf ears…the engineers are too busy adding fancy features to Messenger.
I’ve gotten so frustrated with chat the way it is, I have finally just gone to another chat client. One which is moderated and has allowed me to relax, meet people and avoid all the frustrations and drama, bots, spam and idiots of Yahoo chat.
Comment by Lacie! — April 9, 2009 #
You guys are, truly, doing a marvelous job with YM for Mac (Beta 4 is fantastic), but I think I am not alone in wanting some of the PC-enabled functions such as photo-sharing and the like. iChat is okay, but I’ve always used Yahoo as my *preferred* messenger and would like to have it at least match the Windows counterpart.
Comment by Marvin — April 10, 2009 #
Rubbish. Yahoo has been destroying itself for years. Chat is ridiculous. Giving yourself a pat on the back for chat is loathsome.
One of the last nice things about yahoo was the music rating system and personal stations.
So thank you for dumping all of that, along with everyone’s old profile, so there is no reason whatsoever to bother with Yahoo anymore.
Good luck with chasing everyone else’s business model.
Comment by LB — April 28, 2009 #