Yahoo Weds Mail, Messenger Together
Source: updates.mail.yahoo.com
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Yahoo brings two services into an integrated communications package. Yahoo Mail beta users should start to see the Messenger functionality first discussed in November 2006.
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Come aboard, we’re expecting you…
Ryan Kennedy of yahoo said "At the Web 2.0 conference in November, we took the wraps off of one of our newest, coolest features: Yahoo! Messenger integrated with Yahoo! Mail Beta. But, that was just a preview of what was to come. Today, we will start to release this exciting new feature. But, we’ll be rolling out the feature gradually, so, unfortunately, not everyone will have access immediately.
As part of this release, I’ve put together a screencast that runs through how the integration works and what you can do now that Messenger and Mail are sitting side by side in your browser. Aside from the obvious of being able to instantly connect with 73 million Yahoo! Messenger users worldwide (according to comScore, 12/2006), you also get a seamless experience melding instant messaging with email."
Instant messages will open new tabs in Yahoo Mail. Emails can be converted to IM sessions on the fly when people come online. If someone leaves the conversation, the IM session can be flipped to email and sent.
Once it is in place, Yahoo Mail beta users will have a lot of ways to organize and communicate at their fingertips. Yahoo Mail has Contacts, RSS feedreading, Notepad, and the Yahoo Calendar available within the interface.
Add Messenger to the mix, and there are plenty of reasons to keep Yahoo Mail beta open all the time on the desktop. Yahoo Mail evangelist Ryan Kennedy said in the blog post that Messenger has 73 million users, citing comScore numbers.
That’s a lot of people who will be potentially using Messenger from within Mail. It explains why they have embarked on the gradual rollout.
Yahoo is promoting the new lovefest of communication services as a ‘true Web 2.0 experience.’ "Yahoo! is focused on making it easier for people to connect to those who matter most to them," said Yahoo! Mail vice president John Kremer.
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