New entry process for chat rooms

Hi everyone,
To help reduce the number of automated bots, we’ve implemented a new process for entering the Yahoo! Messenger chat rooms known as Captcha. Captcha is used elsewhere on Yahoo! in places like Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Games to help verify that a user is in fact human rather than an automated bot. Here’s how [...]

Make your Blackberry even more addictive

While using Yahoo! Messenger on a Blackberry is not new, a recent demo I got from the mobile team was enough to merit a blog mention. If you have a Blackberry smartphone, or are considering getting one, you’ll get to experience the best mobile version of Yahoo! Messenger that’s out there.
Most mobile phone users use [...]

New Yahoo! Mail includes SMS

Last week, the new Yahoo! Mail officially dropped its Beta moniker. Accompanying the general audience release was a new feature: the ability to send text messages (SMS) to friend’s cell phones, right from your Yahoo! Mail account.
SMS is the latest improvement to the integrated Yahoo! Messenger that’s available in the new Yahoo! Mail. We first [...]

New Mac version: Beta 2

It’s heeeeeeeere!
We know our Mac users have been waiting patiently for a new version of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac. The wait is finally over. Please give a warm welcome to the new Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 2. Download it now.
This new version includes:
Tabbed IM windows: When you have two or more conversations going [...]

Discovring new friends

One of the more interesting parts of working at a tech company is discussions that arise around future directions for a product.

At Hack Days, Yahoos from different areas of the company come together to display their ideas for product innovations. Sometimes they are completely new product ideas, other times they are extensions of an existing [...]

Chat room upgrade & Mac note

Hi everyone,
Just a heads up that we’ll be upgrading the Yahoo! Messenger chat rooms this afternoon (approx. 2-5pm PST). As it’s taking place, you may encounter some instability when entering or using the chat rooms. We appreciate your patience while we complete the upgrade.
Once the upgrade is complete, you should find that the room lobby [...]

Fashionable Avatars from India

Fashion Week blazed through New York City recently, but across the globe, India’s fashions were also on display. Yahoo! India partnered with the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW), powering the WIFW website and providing coverage of the fashion-filled extravaganza.
Apart from fashion buzz, designer and model profiles, event photos and videos, the site also featured [...]

Recipe for fun: add more friends

Need some fresh faces on your friends list?
Try out our new online invitation to invite friends to join you on Yahoo! Messenger. All you need is their email address which you can type in or grab from your Yahoo! Address Book which is built right into the page.
You can customize your email invitation to include [...]

Yahoo! Messenger for the Web: new release

This afternoon we released an update to Yahoo! Messenger for the Web. This new release includes:
– Save your thumbs! Now you can send text messages (SMS) to your friends’ mobile phones for free, right from Yahoo! Messenger for the Web. When your friend replies, it comes back to you in Messenger. You’ll notice the contact [...]

Smiley has a party

Last Friday, Carnegie Mellon University celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Smiley emoticon with a gala reception for the students and faculty of the School of Computer Science.
The CMU students reserved their monthly TG (short for TGIF) social to recognize this remarkable icon of the Internet age – a simple three keystroke image that morphed [...]

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