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Yesterday, Yahoo Mail Team rolled out a new feature which adds instant messaging capabilities into Yahoo Mail Beta. Users can chat with their Yahoo Messenger buddies through the web based interface, without any need to download Yahoo Messenger. Google had added a similar feature to GMail a year ago, but Yahoo! Integration looks better.
For instance, you are drafting a mail to your friend and in the mean time, he appears online, you could initiate a chat and the drafted message will be automatically translated into an instant message. The chat window looks pretty awesome and gives you a Y! Messenger like feeling with avatars, sounds and bubbled chat conversation (This is something which we didn’t see in GMail)
If someone sends you an instant message, it will popup into its own tab and will be highlighted yellow. This new feature isn’t available to everyone, and it would be gradually released to everyone. I didn’t get this feature for my account, but from the screencast created by Ryan Kennedy, it looks pretty nice. This intergration would surely add more productivity into Yahoo Mail Beta and further reduce the gap between email and instant messaging.
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wrote, on February 13th, 2007
This new feature is excellent.
I agree on the topic that Yahoo!’s add is far much better than of Google. Yahoo gives a 95% feel of Messenger whereas Gmail gives just a simple text exchange thing.
wrote, on February 14th, 2007
It’s good to see this being implemented finally.
I’d blogged about this,/a> several months back.
wrote, on February 14th, 2007
Ajay: You’re a pro when it comes to news finding
wrote, on February 14th, 2007
I check it out and found it good.
I like the kinda ‘tabs’ feature.
wrote, on February 15th, 2007
Thanks
That was the announcement during the Web 2.0 conference… they are finally rolling it out.
wrote, on May 8th, 2007
[...] for my country at that time. If you look into the past, Yahoo had announced that they’ll integrate Yahoo Messenger within Yahoo Mail; so far the feature hasn’t been enabled for my account. [...]