Segmentation Fault: Core dumped..;-)

New Yahoo IM

Posted : May 18, 2005 at 11:20 am [America/Los_Angeles]

Downloaded it and tried it out. Here are the highlights:

1. Integrated Voice: Much better than what they used to have in the past. Not sure about sound quality. It’s better, but not as good as Skype
2. Integrated Voice mail: However, I think this feature is not yet enabled.
3. Little enhancements like looking at your most recent messages simply by clicking F3 (see figure above). I think it’s similar to something that I’ve seen in Trillian.
4. Seamless integration with My Yahoo! 360^o, although can’t say I am too excited about this one. Why? I am still not convinced that I really need it. Ofcourse, if you’ve a spare invite, I would luv to get one just so that I can take this puppy for a ride

All in all, not bad. It sure would be nice to understand how they plan on scaling this, since Yahoo’s IM solution does not have the advantage of being a P2P-based architecture, the kind Skype has. More details here…

- Anand

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