by Playfuls Staff |
20th June 2006
Yahoo! Inc. introduced a new beta of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice with custom plug-in features. Plug-ins are free mini applications that can be easily added to the Yahoo! Messenger with Voice experience to make it that much more personal and interactive. [more]
Plug-ins give people a way to further personalize IM, collaborate, and share experiences with their growing network of friends, family, and colleagues. By working with some of the most popular consumer Internet services and some of the most compelling emerging Internet services available, Yahoo! is bringing the best of the Web right into Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. In the beta version, a suite of third-party plug-ins will be available for Amazon.com, AmericanGreetings.com, Coupons, Inc., eBay, HedgeStreet, Inc., Jeteye, NewsGator Technologies Inc., Pando Networks Inc., 30Boxes, as well as plug-ins from Yahoo!'s leading Web services including Yahoo! Answers, Calendar, Finance, Music, News, Sports, 360.
People can view the latest featured plug-ins as well as customize their own suite of plug-ins from the Plug-in Picker, which is easily accessed from below the contact list.
Through the Yahoo! Developer Network (http://developer.yahoo.com) Yahoo! is committed to opening up its products for third party developers to create applications which utilize Yahoo!'s technology in innovative ways. For the first time, Yahoo! is opening up its real time communication platform to spark innovation and encourage the developer community to create plug-ins with the new software developer kit (SDK). The plug-in SDK is available at: http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger. Developers can work with Yahoo! to make their plug-ins available to Yahoo! Messenger with Voice users at http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/messenger.
The new version brings also additional enhancements:
Increased Friends List: To keep up with the growing community of friends and family using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, people now have the ability to add up to 1000 contacts on their friends' list.
Sound Effects: The Soundboard feature allows people to add short sound effects into their voice conversations, including 'audience booing' and 'birds chirping' sound effects. Additionally, with the Soundtrack feature, people can drag and drop MP3 music files stored on their PC and they will play as background music while they are talking to their friends.
Increased File Transfer Limit: To meet the increasing need to easily transfer documents and photo images through IM, the file transfer size has increased ten times to 1 gigabyte.
The beta version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice is launching simultaneously in 19 localized versions around the world including: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Canada en francais, China, France, Hong Kong, Korea, India, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States and Yahoo! en Espanol.
