June 29, 2010 on 7:52 am | In Uncategorized | 49 Comments
Hi Everyone,
Our voice and video services will be unavailable on Wednesday, June 30th between 2:30 to 4:30pm PST, due to network maintenance . This means you will not be able to use Yahoo! Messenger to make or receive voice and video calls during this time.
This is one of the steps towards improving the performance of our services and your continued patience is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sherrine Tan
Yahoo! Messenger Team
June 14, 2010 on 8:03 pm | In Mobile, Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Today, we are thrilled to announce the availability of the Yahoo! Messenger One app in beta at CommunicAsia 2010. Yahoo! Messenger One was conceived on the premise of wanting to create an integrated and easily accessible communication experience for new-to-net mobile users, offering them a central point for their communication and content needs while on the go.
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
June 14, 2010 on 5:34 pm | In News, Other services, Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Yahoo! will soon open up the platform behind the popular Yahoo! Messenger service.
This is big news. If you haven’t used Yahoo! Messenger, you’re in for a treat. Yahoo! Messenger is the premier instant messaging (IM) platform, used on a wide variety of desktop and mobile clients. Millions of users throughout the world already depend on Yahoo! Messenger to manage their social contacts, group lists, and presence information; hold real-time instant communications; and perform data transfer to and from contacts throughout the world. All, well — instantly, as its name says.
We’re listening to those developers among you who have been telling us they want to build on that trusted platform. By exposing a new RESTful API for Yahoo! Messenger, we’re allowing you to develop your own innovative programs and tools that make the most of what the Yahoo! IM platform can offer.
Developing for the platform is simple. All you need is a little knowledge of HTTP and JSON, and you’ll be connecting with people across the world in no time, no matter what programming environment you’re using. And from there, just let your imagination run wild with the groundbreaking applications you can create.
We’re very excited about releasing this platform, and we can’t wait for you to get started. Check back into the Yahoo! Developer Network on June 30 for more information.
Dudley Wong
Product Manager
June 5, 2010 on 8:25 am | In Features, Web version | 5 Comments
Did you know that Yahoo! Messenger offers you more ways than one to stay connected with your friends? In addition to our fabulous instant messaging client, we worked with our friends at Yahoo! Mail on integrating chat which allows you to have zippy, real-time communication with your friends and family without having to leave your Yahoo! Mail inbox.
Email is great. It’s much faster than snail mail, and you usually get a response sooner than later. But, have you ever been writing an email wishing that you could have instant communication with your contact without picking up the phone? You can with Yahoo! Mail’s chat feature. Chat lets you and your contact exchange messages in “real time”, meaning “right now”, and all while using Yahoo! Mail and without having to download an instant messenger application. (And it’s free!)
Picture this. You have an urgent question regarding flight times for this evening. The only way you can reach your friend is through email. While typing your message, you notice that your friend is online. Instead of sending the email, you convert your message into chat, ask your question, and receive an immediate response. No worries!
Your contact must have a Yahoo! ID or a Windows Live™ Messenger ID and must be signed in to either Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, or another compatible instant messaging program.
So, let’s just repeat the highlights and get you chatting!
- Chat lets you communicate with your contacts in real time so that you receive instant replies.
- Use Yahoo! Mail chat without downloading additional software.
- Convert an email message or text message in progress to a chat message—and vice versa.
- Use chat to communicate with all of your Yahoo! and Windows Live contacts. All they need is to sign into Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, or another instant messaging program.
Staying connected has never been this easy!
Sherrine Tan
Yahoo! Messenger Team
May 12, 2010 on 3:42 pm | In 10 version, 9.0 version | Add a Comment
One of the nice things within Yahoo! Messenger is that you can add friends from other networks such as Window Live (MSN), LCS, Lotus Sametime etc directly into your friend list within Yahoo! Messenger. You can then see their presence information (online/offline) and also exchange IMs right from within Yahoo! Messenger.
However, some of you may have noticed that for the last several hours there have been some problems with the interoperability features especially related to sending IMs from Yahoo! Messenger to other networks.
The good news is that our engineering team has identified the problem and fixed it – if you are still experiencing intermittent problems, please Sign Out of Yahoo! Messenger and sign back in.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused as a result of this issue.
Thyaga Vasudevan
Product Manager
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