Yahoo: Would you pay to open up IM...?

[Budmaas]

In an attempt to gauge demand for paid services on its instant message application, Yahoo released a survey hinting that paid, interoperable IM services could be on the way for the portal giant. .......!!!!!!!!!

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"Assume the following: Yahoo Messenger is considering introducing a new service that would allow you to use Yahoo Messenger to communicate with users of other instant messaging services such as AOL, MSN or ICQ," the survey says. "This premium Messenger service as described above would be offered along with the current free Messenger features for a small and appropriate fee."

Yahoo declined to comment on the substance of the survey. But the company has used similar questionnaires in the past to gauge users' willingness to pay for content and services in advance of launching them.

:eek: -->> (http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/international/stories/nsl,89294.html)

[loverboy260]

i wouldnt there is already a product called trillian which does just that! it does AOL,MSN,yahoo,ICQ and IRC!

[echarcha]

I use Yahoo Messenger. My friends and family know that I use it so they use that to get in touch with me. It might be useful to hardcore chatters to be able to chat with peopel on ICQ, MSN Messenger, AOL etc.

I think I have seen a couple of products which let you chat with people using different messengers.

[Budmaas]

Anyway I like all services from Yahoo specially email service & Surely i'm going to subscribe it anyday in future.

:rolleyes:

[viruss]

Originally posted by loverboy260
i wouldnt there is already a product called trillian which does just that! it does AOL,MSN,yahoo,ICQ and IRC!

same here..

Using Trillian from last 2 years..

Eak hi problem hai usmain, If you r using dual boot i.e. Win 98 & win 2000 to yahoo ke cookies main kuch to locha hota hai.. but MSN work fine in both OS.

[Indian]

big corporates are using yahoo messenger as a prime means to communicate internally(within departments..etc). My be the corporate sector will be the first one to pay for messenger service.

[echarcha]

Originally posted by Indian
big corporates are using yahoo messenger as a prime means to communicate internally(within departments..etc). My be the corporate sector will be the first one to pay for messenger service.

We use SameTime Connect from Lotus Software (IBM) instead of Yahoo because we get to install the entire system on our servers unlike Yahoo where your messages flow to and fro from Yahoo servers.