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Yahoo announces Messenger 10, with better video chat
by Jay Hathaway Aug 27th 2009 at 3:00PM
Yahoo is getting ready to roll out the latest version of its Yahoo Messenger chat app, and a beta version of Yahoo Messenger 10 is already available for Windows users. This time around, the focus is on new features for webcams. Now you can start a high-quality video call (with audio) from within an IM window, which is a step up from the low-quality video calls with no audio that Yahoo had before. These improvements are only for 1:1 calls to other buddies who have Yahoo Messenger 10, though. If you're using Yahoo Messenger to broadcast video to multiple people, you're still stuck with no sound and lower video quality. Video calling also gets some of the features you might be used to from apps like Skype: putting calls on hold, entering full screen mode, and repositioning your video windows.
Yahoo's also jumping on the "activity stream" bandwagon: you can put your buddy list in update mode, and see what your friends are doing on other social sites, like Twitter and Last.fm. You can start a chat from the updates view, and the update you're talking about will show up inline in your IM window, so your friends know what you're responding to. Yahoo Messenger 10 also finally has the ability to sort your buddy list by availability, so the contacts who are actually online and available will show up at the top.
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RogueJedi86 said 4:14PM on 8-27-2009
Yahoo Messenger's Open Webcam has always annoyed me. Hard to have private cam sessions when anyone on your friends list can tune in randomly. Hopefully this is fixed in Yahoo Messenger 10.
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Rich said 5:03PM on 8-27-2009
Maybe they will fix the stupid contact pop thing. In previous versions if you hovered over the contact it would pop up, not you look at it funny and it pops and doesn't go away when its told.
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RogueJedi86 said 5:48PM on 8-27-2009
Who's we? Do you have multiple personalities? Just curious.
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gladybabes said 12:16PM on 11-04-2009
very nice 2 chat someone of U see each other
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