Thinking through Yahoo’s universal IM application - CNET Blogs
This looks VERY cool!
I followed the link in the article to (http://mym.yahoo.com/invite/waitlist/signup.html) and signed up to be notified of the release of Yahoo’s “myM” in beta. I’ll let you know what I think of it after I’ve gotten a look at it.
– Chuck
November 27, 2007 6:27 PM PST
Thinking through Yahoo’s universal IM application
Posted by Matt Asay Post a comment
Valleywag largely pans it. Webware thinks it has promise. Regardless, the central premise of it (Yahoo’s new universal messaging application) is clear:
…[I]t appears to be joining several Web services together. Included are instant messaging clients like AIM and MSN, along with social services like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Friendster.I like it. For one thing, I get tired of scattering my IM activities (and my company largely works over IM) among different chat programs. That’s why I use Adium, but given the promise of also connecting social networking services with IM, I become much more interested.
After all, isn’t the point of social networking sites like Facebook to connect people? If so, is the best way to connect people really to have them “superpoking” each other all day? I’d rather be able to actually chat with them.
Importantly, this would make me much more careful about who I invite into my network as a “friend.” If I actually had to treat my “friends” as, well, friends - you know, people I like to talk with on a regular basis - I’d be much more circumspect about how I used the service.
All of which would make the service much more valuable because it could then record my true “social graph.”
Now consider if Yahoo were to integrate the service with its email offering (especially Zimbra). Suddenly things get much, much more interesting. Yahoo has stumbled on many things, but its focus on messaging and collaboration should pay off big time, even if its search efforts lag in the meantime.
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