Yahoo! Messenger Blog http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:00:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Save the date: 9.0 Workshop on Oct. 6 Have questions about the new Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 that we released recently? Join us for a live, moderated Workshop on Monday, October 6th at 3pm Pacific time (time zone converter). At the workshop you’ll be able to submit questions directly to Yahoo! staff members about our latest 9.0 version. We’ll answer ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/10/02/save-the-date-90-workshop-on-oct-6/ Pingbox: Expanding your IM world With the launch of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 last week, we introduced a new product called Pingbox™. Pingbox is an application that once embedded into your blog, website or social network page, lets site visitors IM you without needing to download or even sign into Yahoo! Messenger. To get your own Pingbox, ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/09/30/pingbox-expanding-your-im-world/ oneConnect for iPhone updated An updated version of Yahoo! oneConnect is now available in the iPhone App Store. This update offers general improvements with stability and performance, and fixes login issues with special characters. In addition, the mobile team fixed the MySpace log in issue. Turns out that users with a lot of contacts ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/09/25/oneconnect-for-iphone-updated/ Bye bye Beta – Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 launches Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 has officially launched as our newest version for Windows XP and Vista. If you’ve been following along and trying our Beta versions, here’s a quick list of what’s new in this final release: - Pingbox™: Introducing Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox, a new application that once embedded into your blog, ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/09/23/bye-bye-beta-%e2%80%93-yahoo-messenger-90-launches/ Understanding what version has which features Over the last couple of years, the number of products that Yahoo! Messenger offers has increased. We re-launched the Mac version, introduced Yahoo! Messenger for the Web, and kicked off Yahoo! Messenger for Vista. And our original Windows client is on its 9.0 release. One of the challenges of having different ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/09/17/understanding-what-version-has-which-features/ oneConnect: Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone (and a whole lot more) Today, Yahoo! OneConnect launched for the Apple iPhone. Built by the mobile team at Yahoo!, oneConnect is designed to help you communicate with not only your Yahoo! Messenger friends, but also the friends you have on social networks like Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Youtube, Bebo, Dopplr, Friendster and Twitter. Here’s a quick ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/09/10/oneconnect-yahoo-messenger-for-the-iphone-and-a-whole-lot-more/ Yahoo! Open Hack Day, Sept. 12-13, 2008 Yahoo! is hosting its second public Hack Day here on our Sunnyvale, CA campus from September 12-13, 2008. Usually hack days are for Yahoo! employees only. But this event is a wide open, public hack day where people with a passion for Yahoo! products can come together to build and ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/09/02/yahoo-open-hack-day-sept-12-13-2008/ Leopard crash bug fixed in Mac Beta We released a new update for Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta today. A bug was fixed that was causing crashes for users on OS X Leopard. We recommend that all Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users upgrade to this latest version. If you're on an older version of 3.0 Beta, you ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/08/28/leopard-crash-bug-fixed-in-mac-beta/ Transcript from Yahoo! Messenger New User Workshop Thanks to everyone who attended our first-ever Yahoo! Messenger Workshop yesterday. You asked great questions and kept us on our toes! Click here to read the Workshop transcript Here's a sampling of some of the questions we answered: How do I chat with msn messenger users? Do I need to select the Vista Yahoo ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/08/26/transcript-from-yahoo-messenger-new-user-workshop/ New to Messenger? Come to the Workshop! If you’re a new user of Yahoo! Messenger or want to brush up on some of the many features Yahoo! Messenger offers, here’s your chance. Yahoo! Messenger is happy to announce a new resource for Messenger users, called the Workshop. These Workshops are live, online, moderated chats led by Yahoo! staff, ... http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/08/20/new-to-messenger-come-to-the-workshop/