Discuss your friend’s latest update
September 15, 2009 on 3:28 pm | In 10 version | 15 Comments
In the new Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta, we introduced an alternate “Y! Updates” view of your contact list. In that view, you see a list of the latest updates from your Yahoo! friends.
Updates can come from your friends’ activity on Yahoo! sites like Buzz, Movies, Answers, Flickr, just to name a few. Or they can create updates by using other social sites on the internet such as Twitter, last.fm, Stumbleupon and more. More on updates
When you’re in the Y! Updates view, it’s also easy to IM your friend to chat about a particular update. Hover your mouse on their update until you see a dropdown arrow menu appear. Click on it and choose “Instant Message”. This will open a new IM window with the update snippet inline in the conversation.
If your friend is also on Yahoo! Messenger 10, they’ll see the update inline in their IM window. It’s a great way to start a conversation about their latest update. And when you do, they’ll know what you’re referring to.
Even if you don’t have an update from a friend, you can still easily IM, SMS or video call them from the Y! Updates view. Just use the contact action bar at the top of the list to find your friend. Hover on their name in the search results and click a contact method like IM, call, SMS or email, from their contact card.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Now if there was some way to control it besides killing it all off in your profile.
I would also like to have control over an IM alias status reporting in Messenger.
I had a comment on a profile show up in my work alias IM status. Not so good.
Comment by April — September 15, 2009 #
I like the direction Yahoo is heading with this. I’m hoping in time we can get additional sites on board. Keep up the good work. One suggestion would be to allow an easier way to make contacts/connections – possibly to search by city or profession.
Comment by Mike G — September 15, 2009 #
Is Yahoo having server issues?
I get locked out of chatrooms very often now. Can’t log in through the captcha and I also get an error message claiming the “validation session has either expired or a servers error occured – please join the chatroom again”.
No matter how many times I try and no matter which chatroom I try, I get the same error.
Comment by Abbey — September 15, 2009 #
It’s still pretty useless to me. I can’t really use it to keep up with my twitter or facebook streams. Most of my contacts haven’t set up Yahoo Profiles or filled out the account links.
Comment by matt — September 15, 2009 #
Hello Sarah,
I like this new YM10 but can you help me how to edit Nicknames? It seems that Yahoo stop the Nicknames in Profiles.
Please help Sarah.
Thanks
Comment by Dave — September 16, 2009 #
Iwant to install ymessenger 10 on xp but will it Slow my pc?afraid it maybe will crush my pc, it As it still beta
Comment by Sam — September 16, 2009 #
Can YAHOO! to put a feature like this:
[checkbox] “Allow links in the conversation windows and my contact list” ?
Thank You
Comment by Bogdan — September 16, 2009 #
This feature doesn’t work very well as my tweets would update on Yahoo the day after I posted them.
Make sure you fix this when 10 is released and everybody should be happy!
Oh… one more request: since I switched to Ubuntu, could you realease a YM client for it?
Comment by Dan — September 16, 2009 #
Sorry guys, had to give up on Y!Messenger….
The push notifications were down for iPhone the other day (all day!) but AIM was working fine. I rebooted my iPhone, so did my wife, and sure enough….no push notifications for Y!Messenger were going through. I thought it odd since I usually get at least 1-2 a day. I tested AIM and the notifications were going through just fine. I liked Y!Messenger better but until the reliability is at least that of AIM, I won’t be using it.
Comment by JuanGuapo — September 16, 2009 #
This feature doesn’t work very well as my tweets would update on Yahoo the day after I posted them!!!
Comment by emrares — September 18, 2009 #
I downloaded the YM10 beta and found out that I could not use some of the services like voice call to a friend who has YM9. I deleted YM10 and installed the YM 9 version. Now I cant connect to the voice service to make calls from pc to pc, it says connecting to voice service but does not connect at all. I use the same broadband service to my desktop and there I can make pc to pc calls.
What could be the reason?
Comment by Eds — September 18, 2009 #
Beautiful work on Y10 so far! I love it! Yall keep up the good work on this!
Comment by Cliff — September 18, 2009 #
i keep seeing people tellin YM is useless to them they given up on yahoo LOL tell me if YM is useless so what’s useful? the crappy Google talk? skype? those junk IM doesn’t even have chat rooms! plus they look real ugly! windows messenger? come on give me a break! tell me exactly what other free IM out there that will at least rival Yahoo Messenger’s feature? drag and drop photo sharing, have a conference with ur friends, auto play video links ect…etc…
u retards should stop complaining if u don’t like YM then go ahead use the stupid Google Talk coz Google is ur freakin god u stupid Google zombie! even if Google will offer u a piece of sh!t its all good for u! LOL
Comment by yMUser — September 18, 2009 #
add friendship
Comment by Binay — September 23, 2009 #
Why doesn’t Y! Updates honor the permissions set on my profile. It just let’s everyone see what my updates are.. whether we’re connected or not.
Comment by matt — September 25, 2009 #