February 18, 2010 on 12:39 pm | In 10 version | 4 Comments
Thanks to everyone who has voted for Yahoo! Messenger in About.com’s Reader’s Choice Awards. We are still behind in the Best IM Feature category, for which our video call feature in version 10 was nominated.
Click the link below to vote for us – we appreciate it!
Vote for video calls as Best IM Feature
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
February 11, 2010 on 4:50 pm | In 10 version, 9.0 version | 16 Comments
This Sunday is Valentine’s Day here in the United States. I think we should show our love all year round, but people love excuses for buying gifts and expensive chocolates. We ladies don’t mind receiving them either.
But if you’re not with your loved one this Valentine’s Day, don’t forget to send your hugs and kisses with Yahoo! Messenger 10.
Turn on the Falling Hearts IMVironment while you’re chatting to add some romance to the conversation (bit the Buzz button for some extra spice).
Or send one of our loving emoticons like lovestruck (
), blushing (
), the always popular kiss (
), big hug (
) and a favorite hidden emoticon, the rose (
)… check out the full list of Emoticons to find the right one for you. Hopefully you won’t be sending this one on Valentine’s Day: 
.
We’ve also got some saucy audibles under the “Flirts” category including classic pickup lines like “I hope you know CPR cuz you take my breath away” and pirate-enhanced flattery, “Arr! Your booty shivers me timbers!”.
And just when the kissing and blushing emoticons are flying back and forth, throw in the “Is it just me or is it getting really hot in here?” audible. To send a flirtatious audible, click the audibles button in the IM window, go to More Audibles > See All Audibles.
If you haven’t had a chance to try out the new video call feature, what better reason than to tell someone, almost in person, that you love them? I promise, it’s almost like being there. And don’t worry, you can send all the emoticons and audibles you want while you’re on the call.
Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
February 3, 2010 on 10:19 am | In News | 1 Comment
In case you missed this story on the Yahoo! homepage today…
Earlier this week, a woman in northern Germany sat down at her computer to tune into the sunset over the North Sea. Tune in? Yes, she was watching via a tourist webcam that overlooks the sea in the town of St. Peter-Ording, Germany.
While she was watching, she noticed periodic flashes of light from the ice. Turns out they were from a man’s camera. He was using it as a sort of S.O.S. beacon after wandering out onto the ice to photograph the sunset. But he quickly became disoriented, unsure how to get back to shore.
From hundreds of kilometers a way, the woman contacted police, who located the man’s signals and guided him into shore by flashing their car lights.
At the time the man lost his bearings, the air temperature was below freezing. He could have frozen to death or fallen through the ice, added police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow.
Stielow said locals are well aware of the risk of disorientation as darkness falls and the beach becomes hard to identify, but vivid sunsets over frozen landscapes often draw people away from the shore.
You can view the St. Peter-Ording webcam here, though the attention from this news story seems to have crippled the site. So bookmark it and check it out in a couple of days. Or check out some of the St. Peter-Ording pics from Flickr below.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
February 1, 2010 on 9:51 am | In 10 version, Mac version | 424 Comments
About.com’s annual Reader’s Choice Awards are here and we’ve been nominated for a few awards in the Best IM category:
- Best IM Feature: video calls | vote
- Best Mac IM | vote
- Best IM chat rooms | vote
The winners are determined by you, the readers, so head over to About.com to vote for Yahoo! Messenger in the above categories. Voting begins today and runs through February 25.
Thanks to About.com readers for nominating us. We appreciate it!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
