Yahoo to Combine Instant Messaging and Email in Web-Based Application

7:20 am on November 13, 2006 | Category: Email, Messaging, Web Services

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The popular internet portal, Yahoo Inc., has revealed plans to follow in the footsteps of Google by integrating its email and instant messaging tools into a single web-based application.

Customers will be able to run both programs in a web browser, with no need to download any software, bringing the convenience of instant online communication to the less technically inclined.

Yahoo executive, Brad Garlinghouse, explained at a recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco that clicking a simple icon within the Mail interface will transform a conversation from the delayed, read-when-you-get-around-to-it nature of regular email to an immediate real-time conversation.

This is similar to the Google Talk messaging application that comes embedded in GMail. Yahoo Mail’s much larger user base, however, will cause the decision to have a greater impact on the mainstream email market. There is plenty of speculation that the web giant will also integrate its web-based VoIP features with the newly merged online application, but a spokeswoman for the company said that it had not been decided if or how this will be done.

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    1. Yahoo is facing more and more failure and in my opinion that is because they are copying more and more Google’s business model. They should stick with their own original ideas and see where these are leading them over time …

      Comment by andreio — November 14, 2006 #

    2. Some people are complaining that Yahoo is not “innovative” and say they’re copying, but Yahoo is sort of standardizing their own program. AIM does it, MSN does it, everyone else does it. Each company will have their own unique feature, and if it’s popular, other companies will copy it.

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      Comment by vic — March 24, 2007 #

    3. how do I combine aim with yahoo

      Comment by Shannon — May 29, 2007 #

    4. Yahoo is trying to step up their game bc Google is taking over what yahoo used to have. High speed internet at its finest=) http://connect-point-to-point.com

      Comment by john — November 13, 2007 #

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