Yahoo Joined The Web-based Instant Messaging bandwagon
Yahoo! recently launched their own web messenger site today. This is an answer to a growing demand for IM on the web many coming from users who are behind firewall or are not allowed to install additional software in their workstation.
Yahoo Web Messenger is built on Adobe Flash 9. At the moment, the features and functionalities supported by the Y! Web Messenger are subset of it’s desktop counterpart. Conference chat ( or group chat) is not supported. I’ve tried inviting myself using another account (my other) but Y! Web Messenger didn’t prompted me for incoming invitation.
Currently Features Includes:
- Adding Yahoo or Hotmail contacts
- Add avatars and emoticons
- Find Contacts
- Show online contacts only
- Fonts family, style and colors are supported
- Tabbed interface when talking to multiple contacts
- Chat History
I believe that the service is currently available only to users whose Prefered Content is Yahoo! United States. I had to change mine from Yahoo! Asia to Yahoo! United States because it was redirecting me to a non-existend page on Yahoo when accessing the http://webmessenger.yahoo.com
Other well known player in Web-Based (or Browser-based ) Instant Messaging service include eBuddy, Meebo & Wablet.
Daily Bitekletas » Yahoo! Messenger saves your message history online said,
May 9, 2007 at 10:14 am
[…] At the office, we use Yahoo Messenger for communicating with co-workers at our remote office in the US. After successfully logging in to my YM, a notification window pop-up with an announcement regarding their “latest exciting feature” called Message History. This feature is related to their earlier announcement of their Web-based IM (flash) application. […]