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This afternoon we launched a public beta of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0. According to my information, our last Mac release was in September 2003, or almost 3 years ago! This release is basically an all-new client and should hopefully show that we’re back in the Mac business. I know there is a lot planned for this client, so we should keep the Mac support getting better with each release. I’m on the lookout for interesting reviews of the new release. TechCrunch had this to say: Its feature set is interesting, but it appears to lack two of the PC…
Don’t know if I’m really ready for a full-blown “switch“, but I recently bought from a friend at work his old PowerBook G4. (He joined practically every other Mac user I know in buying a new MacBook Pro, so I’m benefiting from his castoff.) I’ve been a Mac users off an on, but have never owned a decent one like this. There is no shortage of Mac users at work, so I’m getting the scoop on the “must have” software applications. This weekend’s trip to Gnomedex will be a good test as I go Windows-free for several days (which, for…
I’m looking forward to the Gnomedex conference starting this Thursday in Seattle. In 2004 I attended the 4th Gnomedex in Lake Tahoe, but missed last year’s event. I’m really not sure what to expect this year…Gnomedex is always a great technology conference and it’ll be interesting to see what it’s like with the lineup of speakers/discussion leaders they’ve signed up. It sounds like there are some other folks from Yahoo coming and possibly a Yahoo-sponsored dinner, so it should be a great work and networking weekend. Technorati: Gnomedex
This Monday night we released the beta for Yahoo! Messenger 8.0. This release has the usual set of UI improvements and feature changes here and there, but the big news is that Messenger is now opened up for developers. We’ve added support for two types of plug-ins: Tab plug-ins load in the lower part of the main application window while Conversation plug-ins load on the side of a 2-way IM conversation. The Yahoo Developer Network has all the details including the Messenger SDK. We’re also part of the beta Gallery site which will host plug-ins written by Yahoo and 3rd-party…