Yahoo! launches stealth beta of myM: A Meebo competitor?

by Brad Linder Nov 26th 2007

Yahoo! appears to be working on a new social networking/chat service. MyM is in private beta at the moment, so we can't tell you much about it, but Silicon Valley gossip rag Valleywag reports that the service could be some sort of web-based instant messenger that will tie in with other social sites including Facebook, Friendster, MySpace, LiveJournal, and competing IM services including AIM, MSN Messenger, and Meebo.

We'd say the whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense, except we don't really know enough about the service to condemn it yet. When you sign up for email notification of future myM news, you're asked what social networks and chat clients you use. While Valleywag surmises that this means myM will tie in with those services, it's also possible that Yahoo! just wants to know how you use the internet.

Still, as long as we're in the realm of speculation here, we're going to make a wild guess that myM will be a Yahoo! branded web-based instant messaging widget that you'll be able to add to various social networking sites or your personal blog. But until someone sends us an invite, we'll never really know. Hint hint.

Tags: chat, instant-messaging, meebo, mym

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

netster007x said 7:52PM on 11-26-2007

If this service will have universal IM support, I hope they add it in to Yahoo! Mail. Universal IM would be the perfect feature for Yahoo! Mail (after full Opera support). MSN IM in Y!Mail is still completely busted

Dr. Chuck said 8:39PM on 11-26-2007

Could this be the service that eventually takes the place of Yahoo 360?

Atanas Boev said 11:27AM on 11-27-2007

Well, id=1234 15 1235 123 doesnt work :)

Joe Beaulaurier said 7:32AM on 12-20-2007

"We'd say the whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense, except we don't really know enough about the service to condemn it yet."

Why wait? Nothing from Yahoo! is worth a damn right?

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