February 28, 2011 on 4:59 pm | In Uncategorized | 67 Comments
Do you love our Yahoo! Messenger emoticons as much as we do? From now through March 18th, show us your best emoticon impression for a chance to have your face turned into a brand new Yahoo! Messenger emoticon to be added to the Yahoo! Messenger emoticon gallery.
Check out the Yahoo! Messenger Faceoff Contest on our Facebook fan page. Join the fun by simply submitting a photo of yourself imitating your favorite emoticon. Then encourage friends and family to vote for your submission by “liking” your photo in the Faceoff gallery or to submit their own photos if they think they can do better! After two rounds of voting, the winner with the most “likes” will have their face turned into a brand new emoticon for the world to use.
Everyone knows Yahoo! Messenger is bursting with fun, so it’s no surprise we grew our Yahoo! Messenger Facebook fan base from 120K to 520K in just five months! The page includes updates on product features, delightful polls, interesting Messenger trivia and lots of fan interaction. It’s a great way for Yahoo! Messenger to connect with and delight loyal fans across the globe.
Go ahead – show the world your best smiley! If you’re too shy to submit a photo, visit the Faceoff gallery to vote for your favorites and support your friends. Which emotion are YOU?
Yahoo! Messenger Team
February 25, 2011 on 11:14 am | In Uncategorized | 93 Comments
We know your friends are everywhere, and we want to make connecting with them as easy and seamless as possible. That’s why we’re giving you the ability to chat with your Facebook friends on the latest Yahoo! Messenger Beta.
What’s cooler is that you can also chat with your Facebook friends when you are mobile. For users who are already using the latest Yahoo! Messenger Beta on your PC, you can continue chatting with Facebook friends once you log out of your desktop client. You can send and receive messages from your Facebook friends in real-time via SMS.
Here’s how you can set it up on your mobile device.
· Download the lastest Yahoo! Messenger Beta for PC
· Link your Facebook account
· Register your mobile device
Now when you log out of your desktop Messenger, you will be automatically logged into your mobile device. Any messages sent by your Facebook friends will be forwarded to your mobile device and appear in your phone’s SMS inbox. Reply to the SMS message, and your message will be sent back to your Facebook friends. It’s that simple.
Enjoy the Facebook Chat experience on your mobile device and let us know what you think!
Nitu Choudhary
Technical Yahoo!
February 15, 2011 on 9:49 am | In Uncategorized | 114 Comments
We will be performing maintenance on chat rooms in Yahoo! Messenger on Feb 16th 2011, from 9pm to 12am PST. During this time, the chat rooms will be unavailable.
We are committed towards improving the performance of our services. Appreciate your continued patience and apologize for any inconvenience.
Sherrine Tan
Yahoo! Messenger Team
August 28, 2010 on 12:00 am | In Uncategorized | 38 Comments
Imagine connecting with your friends from school or work OR keeping in touch with your grandparents back in your hometown OR reconnecting with your childhood playmates in a different country.
Now, imagine all of these can be seen live, in real time as you talk to them and have conversations with them. You can see their faces, their expressions, their emotions, their laughter, and much more. This is powerful!
With Yahoo! Messenger’s high-quality, full-screen video calling capability, you can experience the presence of your friends and family during an IM conversation. Physical distance is no longer a barrier to connecting yourself to your loved ones and anyone who matters to you.
We created a few videos that capture some of life’s most interesting, incredible, and unexpected moments all via Yahoo! Messenger. Check out these videos and tell us what you think!
Get the latest Yahoo! Messenger now and enjoy connecting in real time with the video calling benefit. We are sure you will love it!
Sarah Acton
Yahoo! Messenger Marketing Team
July 20, 2010 on 4:12 pm | In News, Other services, Uncategorized | 55 Comments
This is a big day for Yahoo! Messenger. I’m happy to announce that we’ve opened up the Yahoo! Messenger platform for developers. This exciting SDK will allow developers to use the Yahoo! Messenger platform to create innovative new applications and services.
We tried to make our SDK as simple to use as possible. We’ve exposed a new REST API for the Yahoo! Messenger platform — the same API that we use with our own products. So we know that it’s rock solid. In fact, all you need is a little knowledge of HTTP and JSON and you’ll be up and running in no time, no matter what programming environment you’re using. The SDK contains all the key Yahoo! Messenger features that you’ve come to expect, including real-time presence, contact-list management, instant messaging, file transfers, and user-image management.
Please make sure you read the documentation that we’ve included. This document provides best practices, guidelines for using the service, Messenger logos (including our beloved Smiley), and test cases to make sure your application is working properly.
Finally, note that we’re rolling out the SDK in most of Asia, as well as India, initially. The reason we chose this region is the dynamic nature of instant messaging in this market. There are some crazy and wonderful things with Yahoo! Messenger coming out of this corner of the world.
For those of you in the rest of the world, don’t worry; we have plans to roll out this program on a larger scale very soon.
Here’s a list of handy links:
Dudley Wong
Product Manager, Yahoo! Messenger
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