We’d like to invite you to participate in a quick poll so that we can better understand how regularly you are using the feature:

Looking forward to hear from you!

Yahoo! Messenger Team

The chat experience will be similar to what you are used to except that now you will be able to initiate conversations with your Facebook friends as well. For those who prefer to show your online presence only to your Yahoo! contacts, you can choose to sign out of Facebook Chat – You are in control of your experience!

To set up, simply login to Mobile Web Messenger  (http://m.yahoo.com/messenger) and click on the Facebook notification banner to link your Facebook & Yahoo! accounts. Upon successful authentication, you will be able to see your online Facebook friends in a separate tab. Click on any one of your Facebook friends and start chatting away!

Enjoy the Facebook Chat experience on your mobile device and let us know what you think!

Juliana Santarelli

Communications Mobile Product Manager

You can communicate instantly with your friends on Yahoo! Messenger regardless of what platform or device they are using – Yahoo! Messenger is available for iOS and Android and on multiple devices including PC, mobile phone, iPod Touch, and now iPad.

Check out Yodel Anecdotal for all the details or download the latest version in the iPad App Store.

Happy chatting.

Yahoo! Messenger Team

For those who aren’t already aware, here are some exciting features we would like to call out.

FREE VOICE & VIDEO CALLING: Why limit yourself to just IMs? Yahoo! Messenger for Android now supports FREE voice and video calling, so you can feel like you are right there as you connect with your friends and family, wherever they may be in the world. To activate this functionality, be sure to install the Yahoo! Messenger Voice & Video Add-on in addition to the Yahoo! Messenger App for Android.

FACEBOOK CHAT INTEGRATION: We understand your friends and family are everywhere and connecting with them should be simple and easy. With that in mind, we worked on integrating Facebook Chat within Messenger so that you can send and receive messages from your Facebook friends in real-time while you are on the go.

STAY SIGNED IN: Stay signed in to your chats on your desktop PC computer and Android mobile phone at the same time. You get notified about new messages where you are active which means you never have to miss a conversation.

We hope you will enjoy these new features as much as we do. Try them out and let us know what you think!

Yahoo! Messenger Team

We’re excited to tell you about all the great new features in this release:

DO MORE THAN JUST IM – PLAY SOCIAL GAMES WITH FRIENDS
Instant messaging is great but it takes more than just IM to stay in touch with the people who matter most to you. The new Yahoo! Messenger Beta offers more ways than ever before to connect (and have fun!) with friends and family. Not only can you instant message, text, and make voice and video calls, you can now play social games right within Yahoo! Messenger.

• Play socially – Play some of the most popular social games with your friends, starting with offerings from Zynga, Elex, and OMGPOP. Games include:
  • Fishville and Mafia Wars from Zynga – Coming soon
  • Balloono, Pool, Draw My Thing from OMGPOP
  • Happy Harvest & Happy Manor from Elex

• Get your friends involved – Share your game activities and play-status so that friends can join your game and you can join theirs.

MANAGE ALL YOUR SOCIAL NETWORKS FROM ONE PLACE
Having trouble keeping up with different groups of friends across various social networks? Yahoo! Messenger Beta brings together your social experiences from across the web and provides a single destination to see what your friends are doing or let them know what you are up to.

• Keep up with friends wherever they are – View, comment on and like updates from Yahoo! Pulse, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and more, all from one place, right within Yahoo! Messenger.
• Post one status to multiple social networks – Share your Messenger status simultaneously on Yahoo! Pulse, Facebook, and Twitter.
• Chat with Facebook friends – In addition to your friends on Windows Live, you can now IM your Facebook friends right within Yahoo! Messenger.

STAY CONNECTED ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
As you and your friends become increasingly mobile, it is essential to stay connected no matter where you are, across devices. That’s why Yahoo! Messenger keeps you connected whether on desktop, the Web, or mobile devices.

• Enjoy rich experiences across devices – Now on Android! – Make free video calls, and share photos and videos between PC, iPhone, and now Android.
• Converse virtually anywhere – Start your IM conversations on your PC and continue them from your iPhone, Android, or any Internet-enabled device.
• Always be available – Stay signed in to multiple PCs simultaneously so you never miss a message.
• Easy access to recent conversations – Retrieve recent IM conversations from any PC where you have signed in to Yahoo! Messenger.

Learn more and download the new Yahoo! Messenger Beta at http://messenger.yahoo.com/beta/win We hope you’ll enjoy the new Yahoo! Messenger Beta as much as we do!

As with any new release, we want to hear all about your experience — what’s working well for you and what’s not. Try it today and let us know what you think through the “Send Feedback” link on the Help menu.

Also note that video calling on Android requires OS 2.2+ and the Yahoo! Messenger Video Add-on. We support the MyTouch 4G & EVO phones, and will support additional devices in the coming weeks.

John Dunning

Product Manager, Yahoo! Messenger

We have made the following updates to the latest version of Mobile Web Messenger:

• Send SMS for free to your IM friends or to any mobile numbers †
• Enhanced Searchbox allows you to look up contacts by their usernames or phone numbers in your Yahoo! Address book and IM contact list
• Easy toggle between SMS and IM conversations

Whether you have a smartphone, or standard feature phone, if you have a data plan, Mobile Web Messenger can run on your phone. No setup is required – Just enter m.yahoo.com/messenger into the mobile browser on your phone, and you’ve got Yahoo! Messenger.

Sherrine Tan

Yahoo! Messenger Team

† Available in select markets within the supported carrier networks . Carrier charges may apply to the receiving party.

Yahoo! Messenger users on iPhone can now make free voice and video calls to their Messenger friends, low cost calls to land line or mobile phones—plus get new features like multitasking, instant notifications and free SMS.

With the latest Yahoo! Messenger App for iPhone, you can:

• Video calls: Make video calls and stream live video one-to-one †
• Voice calls: Make free voice calls to your Yahoo! Messenger friends
• Low cost voice calls: Talk to your friends on their land line or mobile phone, and make low cost international calls ††
• Multitask: Work with other iPhone apps while Yahoo! Messenger runs in the background†
• Send free SMS messages via Yahoo! Messenger †††
• Get notified for every message: Know when a new message arrives whether the app is running, in the background, or even if it’s not open
• Show and tell: Capture and share iPhone photos and video in real-time, with your Yahoo! Messenger buddies
• Bring your friends in one place: Add your Windows Live Messenger contacts to your buddy list
• Be creative: Use rich text and personal expressions, like emoticons and avatars, to update your friends
• Enhanced performance: Get a simpler, faster, richer Yahoo! Messenger experience at your fingertips

Here’s a sneak peak of what you can expect!

To accommodate our friends across the globe, we have also extended our language support to include Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesia, and Romanian.

Download the latest version by tapping the App Store icon on your iPhone and search for Yahoo! Messenger! You may also see an update alert on your App Store icon. Alternatively, click here to download through iTunes.

We hope you will love this latest version as much as we do. Try it today and let us know what you think!

Andreas Nordin

Product Manager, Yahoo! Messenger

†   Available for iPod Touch (4th Generation) and iPhone 3GS/4  users running iOS4.1
†† Available to premium users in select countries
††† Recipients of SMS may be charged by their carriers

Select Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone features are available as follows:
• Video calling: For the optimal experience,  iPod Touch (4th Generation) or iPhone 3GS/4,  iOS 4.1 & WiFi is recommended. Currently supports iPhone-iPhone & iPhone-PC.
• Voice calls to land line or mobile phone: Must be a Yahoo! Voice Phone Out subscriber in these select markets: US, France, Germany, Spain and Singapore
• Multitasking:  Available on iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4, iOS 4.1

With the availability of our world-class Yahoo! Messenger services for Android, we’re making it easier than ever for users to access fast, reliable, and feature-rich Yahoo! experiences on one of the fastest growing platforms in the market.

Yahoo! Messenger Android App is available for download via the Android Market globally, and support OS 2.0 or higher, including the popular Motorola Droid, HTC Incredible, Google Nexus One.

With the new Yahoo! Messenger App for Android, you can:

• Easily message friends, check friends’ status updates and availability and update their personal status and availability
• Multitask and stay connected with the App working in the background; with push notifications, consumers can easily catch new messages and friend requests
• Full use of emoticons and rich text formatting
• Send photos to friends directly from the phone’s camera or the photo gallery
• Chat with MSN/Windows Live Messenger friends
• Send instant messages to friends via SMS text message*

We are extremely excited about this release and can’t wait for you to get started. Download the Yahoo! Messenger App from the Android Market on http://mobile.yahoo.com/messenger/android

Andreas Nordin

Product Manager, Yahoo! Messenger

*This feature is currently only available when sending to numbers in Canada, Indonesia, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan, Thailand, United States and Vietnam.

The beta launch of Yahoo! Messenger One represents a refreshing approach to all your communications needs.  How so?  Simply put, this all-in-one universal address book and communications hub enables you to find, connect and communicate with friends the way you want, whether it’s email,  instant messaging or SMS – it’s your choice!  What’s more, it’s packed with a slew of user benefits including:

• Mobile registration: You can sign up for a new Yahoo! ID right from within Yahoo! Messenger One app.  No PC/laptop needed. How convenient is that!
• Unified inbox: Now you have all your email, IM and SMS conversations in one easy-to-use-and-access inbox, you can always keep track of all your conversations, hassle free.
• Native address book syncing: Simply upload your contacts to Yahoo! so you can access them from one place, anywhere.
• Message archive and search: With all your conversations stored in the cloud, you will never have to worry about losing your messages or having to delete them ever again.
• IM and SMS chats: You can still chat with you contacts even if they are not on Yahoo! by using SMS (presently supported for Indonesian and US mobile contacts only).
• News Content: Lets you always stay up to date with the latest news, and you can share articles with your friends.

Yahoo! Messenger One will be rolled out first in Indonesia and available in Bahasa Indonesian (the local language).  Indonesia does not require any introduction.  Still, this is the world’s fourth-most populous country with more than 230 million people and about 30 million Internet users.  With its mobile phone customer base having more than doubled to 165 million users in less than three years, and with  popular devices like Blackberry smartphones and low cost clones growing at a fast rate, it is not all that surprising mobile users have outpaced active Internet users by more than 5-to-1.  Clearly this is a nation on the move and we are bringing Yahoo! Messenger One right to the users.

Yahoo! Messenger One is currently available for Blackberry 9000, Blackberry 9700, Blackberry 8900, and Blackberry 9630 devices. Just direct your mobile browser to http://m.yahoo.com/one to download the app and try it out. In future releases, Yahoo! Messenger One is expected to support additional devices and platforms. We’d also love to get your feedback so we can keep innovating and improving the user experience.

Karen Yeo

Yahoo! Messenger Team

In an effort to maintain our high quality and security standards, we will officially retire the Yahoo! Messenger version 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch on June 15th, 2010. This means that if you are currently using this version on your iPhone or iPod Touch, then you will no longer be able to sign in and use it after the retirement date of June 15th, 2010.

We have put together some commonly asked questions that should answer most of your questions.

1. Which iPhone/iPod Touch products are going to start the end-of-life process?

Yahoo! Messenger Version 1.0 for the iPhone & iPod Touch will be end-of-lifed on June 15^th. That means starting June 15^th you will not be able to sign in into Messenger using this version 1.0 app.

2. Why is the above product version being end-of-lifed?

Version 1.0 was our first Yahoo! Messenger release on the App Store. Since then, over the course of the year, we have added many useful features that provide you a much better experience on the device.

3. How do I know if the app that I am using is being end-of-lifed?

There are a couple of different ways you will know if you are using an app that is being end-of-lifed:

      1. You will receive a system IM from Yahoo which will notify you about the end of life plans. If you received such a message you are probably using a version that is being end of lifed.

      2. You could alternatively check the version of your app by tapping on the settings tab in your app and looking for the version information in the “About” section. If the version says 1.0 then your app is being end-of-lifed and you will need to upgrade.

4. If I am using the version that is being end-of-lifed, what version of the product should I upgrade to?

There are two ways you can upgrade to the latest version:

      1. Tapping the App Store icon on your iPhone and search for Yahoo! Messenger (you may also see an update alert on your App Store icon)
      2. Or click here to download it through iTunes.

The latest version requires your device to have iPhone OS 3.0 or newer. If you already have the right OS then you can simply follow the above steps. Otherwise you will first need to upgrade your device to a newer OS. You can find more about that here. Once you have upgraded your device, you can come back and follow the steps above.

5. What are some benefits of upgrading to the latest version?

There are a lot of cool features we added since we launched our first version. These features will significantly improve your Yahoo! Messenger experience. It will be difficult to list all of them but here are a few that were most requested by our users:

• New Message alerts (Push Notifications)
  • We’ve taken advantage of Apple’s 3.0 push notifications platform to enable new message notifications. Now, you will be notified when a new IM comes to your iPhone, even if the Yahoo! Messenger app is closed (or your phone is asleep).
• Stay online for up to 2 weeks
  • The Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app will keep you signed in and visible to your Yahoo! Messenger friends for up to two weeks. When the app is closed on your phone, your status will show you as online but in an Idle state. Friends can IM you and when they do, you’ll receive a new message notification as described above.
• The ability to chat with your Windows Live contacts
• And many more.

If you had any further questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comments area.

Thyaga Vasudevan
Product Manager