Comments on: Yahoo’s New CPO Loves His Mac

By: rOckAPE

rOckAPE — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:33:41 +0000

It’s June 22, 2006…where’s the damn YIM client. Why not beta? Why not SOMETHING from Yahoo’s site at least talking about it…updating us?

By: mingistech

mingistech — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:47:04 +0000

There is no excuse for this versions of YIM! taking so long to be updated for Mac OS X. I really hope that it’s a Universal Binary too.. Those new Intel Macs are freakin amazing! :)

By: Zak

Zak — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:14:30 +0000

sorry Om Malik that was your post not totoro’s

By: Zak

Zak — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:12:04 +0000

Quote:
Posted by totoro on Jan 26th, 2006 at 8:29 AM
-yes, that’s what i mean - a new yahoo messenger
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um…
ya that was like what 4months ago now and this is still the only (semi)cedible mention of a new YIM for us OSX users. I love my Mac and only have 1 complaint, WHY does noone care when they go and make the A/V chat for only “that other company.” They won’t even play nice and let othe companies have the code they need to make it themselves …wake up Yahoo! there are other people out there and if you don’t want to do it yourself there are atleast 3 I know of that want to but hit the brick wall without your help.
Rant over… sorry, Yahoo! frustration… it crashed and now no video chat.

By: Ming

Ming — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:30:11 +0000

I’d love a new Version of YIM for OSX!

It’s been soooo long since the last update. I’d assume the new version would be a Universal Binary for Intel Mac support.

Is there a place I can score Ash’s email address. I’d love to let him know that many people in the Mac community are waiting on this release.

By: Anand Batra

Anand Batra — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:25:05 +0000

New YIM Client? I guess I wouldn’t be very keen to use it. Back in the good ol’ Windows days I used Gaim as I couldn’t handle the YIM Interface. Now, I use Adium which is a LOT better than anything else. It is sleek, light and organized. Voice and Video support are two factors which keep GAIM and libgaim based Adium a bit short of perfection.

By: givemeabreak

givemeabreak — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:32:55 +0000

“Still, as we talked geek, Ash pointed out that he had five computers, all PCs and he found that he was spending an increasing amount of time just making them work.”

Oh give me a fucking break! That was thrown in there to please the mac fanboys and probably wasnt even true.

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Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:27:10 +0000

[...] MyYahoo will continue to evolve. [I sure as hell HOPE SO!] Many of us are waiting for this. [...]

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Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Rumors….. — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:11:30 +0000

[...] MyYahoo will continue to evolve. [I sure as hell HOPE SO!] Many of us are waiting for this. [...]

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Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:31:37 +0000

[...] Forget search . . . browse is the new search . . . ie attention aggregator . . . according to Ash Patel, CPO of Yahoo . . . (via om) My.Yahoo.Com is no longer a portal page, but instead an “attention page” which can be and should be leveraged to become the aggregator site for complicated digital life. Ash, who spent a lot of time on that particular page - building it I mean - agreed. [...]

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Telefonos WiFi y Voz IP » Archivo del weblog » Blog de Vo IP de US — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:36:54 +0000

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By: openhack

openhack — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:33:06 +0000

For all its exciting widgets and Web 2.0 acquisitions, dontcha wish sometimes that Yahoo would resist throwing software and services at us until making sure it actually worked? While a big fan of all the free stuff Yahoo is offering, I think it takes the crown from Microsoft when it comes to buggy releases that can cause endless hours of frustration. Om is praising My Yahoo but I can’t count the times I access it to be told my mail or briefcase or calendar or some other service is not available. I use Yahoo Calendar all the time but have given up trying to get Intellisync to work properly with it. It also has the most unreliable instant messaging program - I have them all on my desktop but find getting webcams to work with Yahoo’s extremely problematic or impossible. Worst of all is Yahoo Music, which seemed like the bargain of the century at the time at $60 for a year’s subscription. I’ve faced countless bugs with this one and am not alone. There are scripting errors, licensing errors, login errors, syncing errors and frustrating licence expirations that lock you out of your music every month. It’s put me off the subscription model entirely. So before Yahoo gets going with Go, could it please fix all the previous stuff first?

By: eric

eric — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:02:21 +0000

Oh wow this is great news to finally be getting a modern version of Y-Messenger. Now if it only has tabbed windows, my IM life would be complete.

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:28:28 +0000

Actually, where Ash Patel works, they do get cappuccino machines after serving for ten years! Since the company's barely ten years old, only a handful of employees have qualified.

If you walk around Yahoo!, you see a growing number of engineers who use company-issued Mac laptops. In my observation it's about 25%, and growing rapidly as people replace their older work laptops.

This can only lead to good things for the future of Yahoo's Mac support.

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Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:22:36 +0000

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:07:31 +0000

Here’s hoping the new Y! IM for Mac will have a “Launchcast” tab as provided in the Windows version.

As a (Mac-using) paying customer of AT&T Yahoo DSL, I am frustrated that I’ve paid for Launchcast for years, and yet am rarely able to use it (only at school on Windows).

I definitely count Y!’s purchase of Konfabulator, to create Y! Widgets, as a very good sign of their commitment to the Mac community. I hope they can continue it.