Yahoo! Mail Beta meets Yahoo! Messenger
I just posted over on the Yahoo! Mail updates blog regarding the new Messenger integration in Yahoo! Mail Beta. This was pretty cool because I did my first screencast for the blog. I had fun, although trying to come up with a scenario that doesn’t sound totally contrived is difficult (as evidenced by my performance). I’m looking forward to doing more screencasts, though. Using a trial of Camtasia I found out why it’s $300: the video editing capabilities. It’s not the most full-featured video editor, but it’s pretty damn simple to use. So I’ll be requesting that the company pony up the $300 so I can do more screencasts (I would have paid anyway, otherwise I’d feel bad about using a trial for a commercial screencast).
Anyway, I’m embedding the screencast below.
Coverage:
- CNET
- PCWorld.com
- Yahoo! Mail France - Damnit, their blog is both spiffier and updated more frequently than the one I run. This cannot stand.
- Download Squad - I love those guys!
- Press release
February 12th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Wow - nice integration. Great screencast as well - you’ve got a good voice for this
Hey - the comments are still turned off on the Y Mail beta blog - what’s up with that?
February 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Hey, thanks Toni! Always good to hear a couple of compliments when you try something for the first time.
Yeah, yeah…I’m only *ONE MAN* Toni.
One man with 250,000,000 users. As soon as I unbury myself from the mountain of crap I’ve got going on right now, I’ll look into comments.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I agree, you do have a good voice for screencasts. Looking forward to more in the future.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
This is a good move for communication and collaboration and is probably just the beginning or the . Thanks for the video since I’m not able to experience it first hand.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
This is a good move for communication and collaboration and is probably just the beginning or the email revolution. Thanks for the video since I’m not able to experience it first hand.
(sorry for the first comment mistake)
February 12th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
The integration is fantastic. Congrats!
What software did you use to produce the screencast?
February 12th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Brian, I used the excellent Camtasia to produce the screencast. At first I was a bit appalled that they charge $300 for it. But once you get into it and see all of the video editing you can do inside of the Camtasia Studio, you’ll see that $300 is probably worth it if you’re doing any serious amount of screencasting.
All of those zoom effects where I focus in on something are pure Camtasia bliss.
February 12th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Man, two compliments on my voice. Dig it!
February 13th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Yahoo! Mail France official blog uses WordPress and my stuffs (Theme+Plugin) which you could download at :
http://www.miaouw.net/laboratoire/projets/
But “Kubrick is Miaouw!” theme and “avecYahoo!” plugin are only in french :o|
February 13th, 2007 at 5:39 am
When is the rest of the Yahoo! suite going to be updated? Yahoo Mail is now in the new century, but contacts, calendar, and tasks is a decade behind….
February 14th, 2007 at 9:13 am
[...] I saw that the new Yahoo Mail had integrated IM functionality and thought, well, that’s nice. This morning I tried it and I have to say it’s actually quite useful. [...]
February 16th, 2007 at 4:11 am
Cool intergration of IM into Yahoo Mail although would like to see the option of being able to save chats to e-mail or notes.
Also is there any plans at Yahoo to create a e-mail notifier similar to gmail notifer for pc&mac. This would be great as I don’t need stand alone Yahoo Messenger now with the IE intergration but would still like to know when my a Yahoo e-mails arrives.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
[...] Yahoo! Mail Beta meets Yahoo! Messenger - pretty slick. [...]
March 24th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
why do I not have instant messenger in my email yet?
March 25th, 2007 at 12:17 am
We’re continuing the slow rollout, making sure we don’t crush Messenger with Mail’s load.
March 27th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Yahoo copied Google
March 27th, 2007 at 8:12 am
I suppose Google has NEVER copied Yahoo. Oh, wait…
March 31st, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Ok 2 things
1-)Google did copy yahoo once (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/12/12/google-ripped-off-yahoo-s-ie7-promo-page/)
2-)Yu should useBB Flashback exxpress. It is really great and you can put some speech bubbles and everything:))
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Hi,
Am not able to get yahoo messenger with yahoo mail even after moving into BETA version.
Any help
April 4th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Messenger integration hasn’t been enabled on all machines yet.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Messenger within mail…hmm.., that would be a nice toy to play around w/…,
April 11th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
can`t read my messages
April 17th, 2007 at 7:19 am
this is an awesome feature for users that can’t or not allowed to install messenger onto their work pc.
do you know when the rest of the population will be getting the integration. (phase rollout)
April 17th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Roger, I can’t say. Soon, though, I hope!
April 24th, 2007 at 8:55 am
i just noticed something. I currently have the integrated messenger on one of my pc. However, when I log on to my yahoo account on another PC, I don’t have the option to get into the integrated messenger. Is there additional software that I need to load to this other PC to get the integrated messenger?
April 24th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Make sure you have a relatively recent version of Flash installed. I forget what the minimum requirement is.
April 26th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
do we need to be on IE 7.0 or does it work for 6.0 too?
April 26th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
It works in both.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:48 pm
how can I integrate YM to my yahoomail beta?
May 14th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Am not able to get yahoo messenger with yahoo mail.
Pls help!
May 28th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Nice work…i can see my hubby use chat in yahoo email but how come i can never get that messenger icon in it ? I am awaiting try giving me prompt response.
May 30th, 2007 at 3:43 am
How can i used my yahoo mail together the yahoo messenger can you please help me. Thanks.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:59 am
I got Yahoo IM integrated to my Mail. But I’m unable to connect to my IM. I get the following error.
You have been disconnected from chat because you may be experiencing network connection problems. To reconnect. please select Available, Busy, or invisible from the chat status menu.
I tried it on both Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Linux and Opera 9.20 on Linux. But it doesnt seem to connect. While I can very well login to Yahoo thru my Gaim. I can also login and use Yahoo webmessenger available at webmessenger.yahoo.com
And one more thing i wanted to show you. On opera, the alignment of the status menu is not proper. Please take a look at this screenshot of it.
From what I could see from your screencast, its superb, and I’m longing to have it working for me
June 6th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I’m not sure why you’re unable to connect through the integrated Messenger. The Opera issue, however, is probably due to the fact that Opera is still unsupported on Yahoo! Mail Beta.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:03 am
This is great and I’m looking forward to when this comes with a message archive/history capability. I’m hoping it’s on it’s way as YIM “for the Web” provides for archiving. Until then I’m going to have to use email and/or YIM.
June 17th, 2007 at 12:57 am
I am getting tired with the latest problems with the new Yahoo Mail Beta and that is not being able to access my mail inbox (blank pages on both IE and Firefox).
At first I thought it was a good product but now after spending several days contacting customer support by email and phone, only to have the problem fixed for a short while and then reoccur a few weeks later. I have lost all hope that Yahoo would get their act together. I am even thinking of canceling all my Premium services because of this.
Poor customer support = Loss of customers
Too many problems with the new product, sorry.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Plz help to get YM in my yahoo beta mail