Yahoo! Annoucement Coverage
Created By: diggal
Last Modified: 06/27/06
The VoIP Weblog: Yahoo Messenger w/Voice Opens to Developers
Summary: In the beta version, a suite of third-party plug-ins will be available for Amazon.com, AmericanGreetings.com, Coupons, Inc., eBay, HedgeStreet, Inc., Jeteye, NewsGator Technologies Inc., Pando Networks Inc., 30Boxes, as well as plug-ins from Yahoo!'s leading Web services including Yahoo! Answers, Calendar, Finance, Music, News, Sports, 360°.
From: http://www.voip.weblogsinc.com/2006/06/19/yahoo-messenger-w-voice-opens-to-developers/Link: Cybernet News: New Yahoo Messenger 8.0 Opened to Developers
Summary: "The release of 8.0 and the software development kit can really only mean more options for messenger users in the future! Some applications have become more well known and used due to the creative, useful plug-ins that have been created for themâthe obvious and first to come to mind being Firefox."
Link: Slashdot: Yahoo! Opens up Their Instant Messenger
Summary: "Reuters is reporting on the new release of Yahoo! Messenger, which will allow third-party applications and plugins to run within the Messenger environment."
Link: ZDNet: Yahoo Messenger gets plug-ins
Summary: "Created by both Yahoo and third-party developers, the plug-ins, available because Yahoo has opened up its application programming interfaces, let users do a variety of things from within the instant messenger application."
Link: TechCrunch: Yahoo Opens IM to Developers
Summary: "Yahoo Messenger, with 60 million worldwide users, just got a lot more interesting. Today at 6pm PST Yahoo is launching Yahoo Messenger 8.0 for Windows PCs and releasing a software development kit to allow third parties to create content plugins that users can add to their Yahoo IM. Plugins can be built using javascript, flash, or both."
