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Yahoo! Messenger on the new yahoo.com page

July 27, 2009 on 2:11 pm | In Features, Web version | 19 Comments

Have you tried out Yahoo!’s new home page yet? This latest version gives you even more ways to customize the page with your favorite news, sites and services.

For the new Beta page, we worked with the team behind yahoo.com to create a new Yahoo! Messenger module. This new version provides a quick view of which friends are online, plus you can easily IM them right from the page. Here’s a quick look at the features of the new Yahoo! Messenger on yahoo.com:

See all your friends in one place
Like the versions we currently offer in Yahoo! Mail, this Yahoo! Messenger module will show you all the friends you’re used to seeing in your list, plus other online friends that are in your Yahoo! Address Book. These are grouped under “Your Yahoo! Contacts”. You may see friends in there you didn’t even know were on Yahoo! Messenger so drop them a line to say hi!

Instant message or send a SMS text message
You can start a conversation with a friend right from the home page. Find them in your list and then click the IM or SMS icon to the right. This will launch a new IM window in Yahoo! Messenger where you can start chatting. Note that the SMS icon only shows up when you have a mobile number in your address book for a friend.

Search to find a contact
This one’s handy for those of you with a lot of friends. Use the search box at the top of the module to quickly find a friend in your list. Once you do, click the IM or SMS icon to start a conversation.

Collapse/expand groups
Click the arrows at the right of a group header to expand or collapse a group.

Change how your list is sorted
Click the Settings icon near the top of the module to sort your list alphabetically or in reverse alphabetical order.

Related links
Looking for more information on Yahoo! Messenger and its features? Check out the links to the right for help with finding the latest version, using a webcam, or getting to know emoticons.

We hope you enjoy the new homepage and find the Yahoo! Messenger module useful. Are there other features you’d like to see incorporated into Yahoo! Messenger on yahoo.com? Leave a comment to let us know.

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

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  1. This is great! I have a suggestion/request not quiet related, but somewhat related to this. The flash based webmessenger checks for flash player version 10, otherwise it won’t load. It would be great if that script was modified to also allow flash object to load on flash lite. That way many touch screen phone users (other than iPhone) who don’t have native yahoo client, can use the webmessenger.
    Thanks,
    Saurabh

    Comment by Saurabh — July 27, 2009 #

  2. I love the new Yahoo Homepage so far. Its pretty awesome!!

    Comment by Janet — July 27, 2009 #

  3. Tank you yahoo group!

    Comment by joseph — July 27, 2009 #

  4. The new homepage is cool. Keep up the good working.

    Comment by Josh — July 28, 2009 #

  5. [...] (vía: Yahoo! Messenger Blog) [...]

    Pingback by Yahoo! Messenger se integra en el nuevo diseño de Yahoo.com, messenger es gratis — July 28, 2009 #

  6. I am confused as to why you have to give people a tracking cookie every time they open yahoo messenger and even if you happened to clear the cookie out before you leave, when you leave yahoo messenger gives it to you again, seems to me these tracking cookies need to be renamed to stalking cookies seeings they track our every movement on the web and report back to a third party(could be hackers the ones who invade our email and send things to all of our list), or advertisers for products they think we need because we looked on a web site and saw a similar product… Stalking is against the law, why are you allowed to send us a stalking cookie when we open things like yahoo messenger or one of your web sites, the web suppose to be a safer place than what your offering with these stalking cookies???

    Comment by Thomas — July 28, 2009 #

  7. hi yahoo team,i am writing to ask about yahoo messenger for we users of linux operating system.we enjoy the yahoo messenger and really miss using it now that we are on ubuntu/linux operating system.anything on how we can get the full yahoo messenger with its wonderful features?

    Comment by dammy — July 28, 2009 #

  8. @thomas u need to wake up yahoo dont do that stuff ..so go yahoo team keep up the good work

    i have avg and it blocks tracking cookies anyway and i know yahoo dont do that stuff on their home page

    Comment by wd — July 28, 2009 #

  9. Well done Sarah. Thank you for a splendid job.

    Comment by Henryk — July 28, 2009 #

  10. the new website is amazing

    Comment by erica — July 30, 2009 #

  11. Well done, u are doing a grt job

    Comment by lawal fausat — August 1, 2009 #

  12. I love this website now thank you very much

    Comment by Brandi — August 2, 2009 #

  13. really like the new yahoo page!!

    Comment by Jodi — August 3, 2009 #

  14. You are performing agreat job over there keep it all

    Comment by Ajibade — August 3, 2009 #

  15. I love Yahoo.com because it’s more lively n more personal than windows live. To me it actually pops up at u n says I’m here, it’s fashionable,stylish, modern-can personalize it anyway u want(windows too, but not as much), and features unlike windows live. windows live is more business like oriented. Also i agree with some that the chatrooms can use a good clean up-however it really relies on the user to use discrection-on them(yeah rite),they’re not gonna care. I have both windows live and Yahoo, keep up the good work.

    Comment by John Barrett. — August 4, 2009 #

  16. To me they seem to be copying AOL. First they copied aol webmail and now AOL homepage. You should just take some inspiration and then be a little creative. In making yahoo mail similar to that of AOL they made it a lot slow, harder to read and buggy. Although new homepage doesn’t seem bad, but hey be a little creative, don’t copy too much.

    Comment by Saurabh — August 5, 2009 #

  17. I LOVE IT……GREAT change! WOW!!!

    Comment by Eve — August 6, 2009 #

  18. I’ve been a loyal YAHOO! user for a long time, but the new homepage is enough to make me consider switching to google for good. Running my mouse over an item does not mean I want it to open; I would much rather take the millisecond it takes to click on a link I want to open than for every link to expand every time my mouse rolls over it. I dare say I’m not the only one who finds this annoying. The structure of the page is fine, but that feature is infuriating.

    Comment by ed — August 11, 2009 #

  19. @ Ed, it doesn’t open an item as soon as you hover the mouse over it. They kept a little delay for that reason. So if you are just moving cursor through the screen, you should be fine.

    If you are intentionally staying on an item thinking about it, its actually better that it pops up the item menu and gives you more info/description about it.

    Comment by Saurabh — August 11, 2009 #

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