Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Yahoo Messenger Gets Photo, Video Sharing

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, disconcertingly not able to develop a popular societal networking site, will seek to accentuate the societal networking capablenesses of when it allow goes of on Tuesday a beta ascent of this widely used instantaneous messaging service.

Among its new features, will let people to ask for friends to ticker pictures or impudent through photograph record albums in existent time, sharing those activities as if they were sitting side by side in one's life room.

Made possible by what Yokel names an "in-line media player," this characteristic is one of respective new 1s designed to hike interactions among Messenger users.

Another such as as characteristic is a redesigned "friends" listing that supplies more than than space for each contact entry and do it easier to set up an IM, voice or samariums nexus with another user.

Now the inquiry is whether Yokel bes after to leverage the more than 94 million people who utilize Messenger and construct a societal web around that base, giving the company, finally, an reply to and .

While she wouldn't supply a direct reply to this question, , frailty president of Yokel Messenger, acknowledged that the service have got an built-in societal networking component.

"In some ways, if you look at it, Yokel Messenger is a societal web in that people have actually defined who their friends are and these are people they pass on with," Ellis said.

The new features, such as the ability to share and watch pictures virtually together, will let people deepen their interactions on Yokel Messenger beyond what have been possible so far, she said.

"These elements will really assist people develop human relationships and spread out some of their friendships," Ellis said.

According to , last calendar month Yokel Messenger had 94.3 million alone users, up almost 30 percentage from September 2006 and 2nd worldwide to 's with almost 227 million.

Still, Yokel hasn't been able to happen its channel in societal networking. It recently announced it volition phase out its societal networking land site Yokel 360 and transmigrate its characteristics and content to a "universal profile system" that will more closely bind Yahoo's assorted online services together.

Asked how Yokel Messenger will suit within this integrated, centralised platform, Ellis said the IM service will be portion of that effort, along with Yokel Mail, and other services.

"We're committed to making certain that all of our users can profit from all different Yokel services," she said.

Other new characteristics inch the beta version of Yokel Messenger 9.0 include the following:

-- Localized versions for , , , , (in Hindi) and

-- The ability to shift an limitless figure of data files of of up to 2GB in size each

-- Call forwarding, to direct telephone calls from Yokel Messenger to a mobile phone or landline as a voicemail

-- The ability to share photograph sets from Yahoo's service in existent clip

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