Yahoo! Opens up Their Instant Messenger

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday June 19, 2006 @11:21PM 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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Too bad... by tacarat · 2006-06-19 23:33 · Score: 5, Informative

Here's the link to the story that they forgot. A pity, though. They're only opening up the IM for extra, user made, modules. I was hoping they published code for the Yahoo messenger for the community. Hell, I'd be happy if they'd just update the linux version or at least make the current versions more WINE friendly. I'd like my voice chat and video, please.

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Re:One thing by Ilgaz · 2006-06-19 23:46 · Score: 5, Informative

They don't even care for OS X version.

That piece of shame isn't updated so it has some OS problems. A caring end user posted a patch to versiontracker and everyone installed it. I mean the people who need it.

Patch: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 29522

Yahoo Messenger (the scandal, check comments there!) http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 14474