![]() Other IM programs like Digsby and Trillian Astra allow you to see updates from Twitter, but they display them as pop-up alerts, not as a view of your contacts. Why is this interesting? Yahoo is incorporating Twitter and co-opting the real-time update stream in way that other IMs have not quite done. Updates can come from Twitter, Last.fm, Yahoo! Buzz, Flickr, nearly 20 non-Yahoo web sites, and (of course) Y! Messenger status updates. The most recent updates will appear at the “top” of the contact list. The new Y! Updates view of your contacts is more interesting to me, as it is a unique way of displaying your contacts, sorted in a live stream of updates that will be familiar to Facebook and Twitter users. The new video call requires both parties to be running Yahoo! Messenger 10, and the changes don't apply to one-to-many webcam broadcasting. You can swap window positions (between your preview and the person you are viewing), display both windows side-by-side, and put the call on mute or hold. They have revamped the one-to-one video calls, building it right into the chat window, improving the video quality and synchronizing the audio with the video. What's in the new beta? High-quality video calls, a “Y! Updates” view of your contact list that turns Messenger into a Twitter stream, new ways to sort your contacts and support for 16 different languages. After using Yahoo! Messenger 10 for a bit, go to the Help menu and select “Send Feedback” to get started.Yahoo today announced availability of the Yahoo! Messenger 10 beta. If you’re already signed in, you can also change your language under Messenger > Preferences > Language (you’ll have to restart Yahoo! Messenger for it to take effect).Īs with any new release, we welcome your feedback about what’s working well for you and what’s not. Choose from 16 different languages and the buttons, menus and various parts of the interface will change to that language. When you start up Yahoo! Messenger 10, you’ll notice a new language menu on the sign-in screen. version but wish it could be in your local language, you’re in luck. Note that your friend needs to also be on Yahoo! Messenger 10 to see the update inline. When you do, the update appears inline in the conversation window, so when you start your IM with “I can’t believe you like this song!”, your friend will know what you’re talking about. To make it easy, we added a hover menu that lets you quickly IM a friend about their update. Within the new “Yahoo! Updates” view, you’re sure to find more to talk about with your friends. You can turn alerts on and off and even update preferences by contact or by type of update. If you want to disable these, go to Messenger > Preferences > Yahoo! Updates. When a new update comes in, a “toast” alert will pop up in the lower right corner of your screen. We also added additional features for how and when you see your friends’ updates. If they’ve opted-in to share their updates via Yahoo!, you’ll be able to see what they’re saying on Twitter, reading on Yahoo! Buzz, listening to on last.fm, and more. To help you keep up with your friends, we added an alternate view of your contact list that shows a real-time stream of their updates, including Messenger status message changes. People are busy these days, doing all sorts of interesting things online. New “Y! Updates” view of your contact list To get started, click the new “Video Call” button in the IM window (your friend also needs to be on Yahoo! Messenger 10). You can even go full-screen with your video call. Features include the ability to swap video windows, position the video windows side-by-side, mute the call or place it on hold. Now you can make a high-quality video call to a friend with synched audio, right in the IM window. We’ve completely redesigned our 1:1 webcam feature (under the hood too). Be sure to watch the demo video at the end of this article for a quick tour. If you’re a Windows 7 user, you’ll be glad to know this version is compatible with the new operating system.īelow is a summary of the features that are in Yahoo! Messenger 10. We’ve also improved the overall stability of the product. This latest version (10.) incorporates many bug fixes, including some related to our new video call feature. You can download the final version from our website. Thanks to all of you who tried out Yahoo! Messenger 10 during the Beta period and provided feedback about your experience.Īs of today, Yahoo! Messenger 10 is no longer in Beta. ![]() meegekregen en is voorzien van de volgende aankondiging: Yahoo! Messenger 10: Final version now available De nieuwste versie van deze instantmessenger heeft rugnummer 10. Verder is met behulp van plugins de werking van het programma uit te breiden. Daarbij is het ook mogelijk om te kletsen met de gebruikers van Windows Live Messenger. ![]() Yahoo Messenger is het chatprogramma van Yahoo, waarmee gebruikers naast berichten ook bestanden naar elkaar kunnen sturen.
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