Yahoo, apparently invited some bloggers to show off the next refresh of their Yahoo messenger software which apparently has better VoIP capabilities. Andy was there, I wasn’t but I can guess, that it will support SIP. Guaranteed that they will not support PSTN connections, lest they piss of their Bell-partners. Beyond that, no big deal. Andy suggests they might get big media interested – not this guy Andy. In a world where most of my friends have AIM, iChat, MSN – Yahoo Messenger doesn’t matter. In my world where Vonage and Skype represent voice-over-the-internet, it doesn’t even count. They are late – AOL and MSN have better and more relevant products. I wrote about this almost a year ago. They should have done something about a year ago, when Skype was a toddler. The peer-to-peer effect of Skype makes anyone else a bit of a non starter in pc2pc calls. Yahoo Music and Yahoo Messenger – desperately trying to keep that m-thing going?
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