It was only 5 short weeks ago that we launched the beta for Yahoo! Messenger 8. Since then we’ve been busy putting on the finishing touches and fixing a bunch of reported bugs. The result came out earlier this evening as we launched the production release of version 8. As is kind of typical for internet software like this, the... (more)
July 2006 Archives
Providing print stylesheets is something I’ve been interested in for a while now. Catching up on the 37signals blog, I learned that they added better print stylesheets for their Basecamp product: We’re not big printers, but our customers tell us they are. They often have to print screens from Basecamp to take to meetings, present to clients, or prepare a... (more)
Some recent AJAX experimenting and the release of a developer plugin interface for Yahoo! Messenger have led me to dusting off my Javascript knowledge. Particularly with the Messenger plugins (written in HTML with a healthy dose of Javascript), we’ve really seen some poorly written code, both internal and external. I’m starting to put together my own plugin developer guide and... (more)
“Interop” has been the buzz phrase at work the past few months and tonight Yahoo! and Microsoft coordinated the launch of instant messaging interop between the two systems. This means you can stay on your Yahoo Messenger client and add MSN buddies directly (and vice versa). It may not be as prevalent in the press release or news coverage, but... (more)
Just wrapped up two plus days at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle. For me, the conference was kind of a bust. I did meet some cool people and had a few interesting conversations, but at the end of the day I was asking myself “Why am I here?”. Most of the sessions were either hijacked by high-profile bloggers, or were... (more)
