Yahoo Messenger deepens social networking features InfoWorld Media via TMCNet (Oct 30)
Yahoo is trying to make its Yahoo Messenger the core to a social networking service.
"Among its new features, Yahoo Messenger 9.0 will allow people to invite friends to watch videos or flip through photo albums in real time, sharing those activities as if they were sitting side by side in one's living room."
Users will be able to:
+ make IM, voice, or SMS link with another user.
+ transfer files up to 2 MB
+ share photo sets from Flickr
+ call forward to a cell phone or land phone and leave a voice message
Available in new versions - Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India (in Hindi), and Vietnam
Some figures: "According to comScore, last month Yahoo Messenger had 94.3 million unique users, up almost 30 percent from September 2006 and second worldwide to Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger with almost 227 million."
Posted by Gwen at October 31, 2007 10:51 AM