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Yahoo! Opens up Their Instant Messenger

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-this-cooperation-is-making-me-nervous dept.

prostoalex writes "Reuters is reporting on the new release of Yahoo! Messenger, which will allow third-party applications and plugins to run within the Messenger environment. From the article: 'Initial partners include 30 Boxes, a calendar-sharing site that competes with Google Calendar, commodities trading site Hedgestreet.com and Pando.com, which offers a service for sharing videos or other files via BitTorrent technology. More than 100 mini-programs will be available initially.' The application is currently available in beta. Relatedly, Microsoft is removing the beta warning label from Windows Live Messenger and promises better voice communications, landline calls and future integration with Yahoo! Messenger."

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  1. Yay! by Vo0k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another 5000 zombies for my botnet! Where's the API? Starting to write my "3rd party app" right now!

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  2. I know what will happen... by damburger · · Score: 2, Funny

    I will get people complaining that because I use GAIM I can't install their fancy new plugins.

    Then they will vanish from the internet. Forever.

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  3. Y!M Newest Feature by demongeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Viral infections and data mining tools that work from WITHIN the messenger itself. No more need to open up those nasty attachments, have a plugin that automagically executes files of all times and dials home without you ever needing to think about it....

  4. Re:AOL Triton?? by petabyte · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know you're right but that does make me feel very old. Teenagers today can video conference, cell phone, IM, myspace, iTunes, etc all at once. Back in my day, *gets out cane*, if you got IE 3.0 and AIM working life was good. My cousin in elementary school has a better laptop and cell phone than I do. I know there are people on this site who fondly remember punchcards, but kids today.

    Get off my yard!

    *marks himself DEPRECATED and schedules date for port removal*

  5. Re:AOL Triton?? by anaesthetica · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow. I think this is the one instance I've ever seen where having a dramatically higher UID actually gave you more cred. Jeez, next thing you know, Macs will be running on Intel chips...

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  6. Re:Integration with Yahoo! Maps? by schon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would not be surprised to see Yahoo! instant messenger to integrate with Yahoo! Maps.

    Just what the world needs - a tool that makes it even easier for perverts to stalk 14-year old girls! :o) Just think - when your prey IMs you, you can tell at a glance if you need to violate the "within 100 yards of a school" provision of your plea bargain! :o)