Yahoo! Mail integration
Yahoo! plans to integrate Yahoo! Mail Beta and Yahoo! Messenger Conversations will be archived and stored in the same manner as emails. This allows users to search within their chat logs easily, and to have them centrally stored and accessible from any computer.
Chat
All versions of Yahoo! Messenger have included the ability to access Yahoo! Chat rooms.
On June 19, 2005, with no advance warning, Yahoo! disabled users' ability to create their own chat rooms. The move came after KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas reported that many of the user-created rooms were geared toward pedophilia.
Web Messenger
Similar to MSN Web Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger's Aim Express and Quick Buddy, Yahoo! Messenger also has a web applet version that runs in a browser window to communicate with friends. Recently, it has switched from DHTML to Adobe Flash in coding.
Offline messaging
Offline messaging, a feature long offered by Yahoo!, allows online users to send messages to their contacts, even if said contacts are not signed in at the time. The sender's offline contacts will receive these messages when they next go online.
Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant
messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo!
Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used
with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo!
services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically
notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC,
PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text
messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories.
Features
Yahoo! Voice
Yahoo!
Voice is a Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service
provided by Yahoo! via its Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging
application.It is also available for the Mac OS X platform.
Voicemail and file sharing
Yahoo! added voicemail and file sending capabilities to their client. File-sharing of sizes up to 2GB was added.
Plug-ins
As
of 8.0, Yahoo! Messenger has added the ability for users to create
plug-ins (via the use of the freely available Yahoo! Messenger Plug-in
SDK), which are then hosted and showcased on the Yahoo! Plug-in gallery.
