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| Yahoo and Microsoft will open up their instant-messaging networks to each other early today in a limited public test, and executives signaled that the Internet giants are exploring additional ways to cooperate.The move is likely to be welcomed by people who will no longer have to maintain multiple buddy lists or switch between Microsoft and Yahoo to chat online with friends and business associates.It also puts pressure on the leader in instant messaging, AOL, which could lose users to the Yahoo-Microsoft network.Yahoo and Microsoft first announced that they would be making the technical changes necessary to create an interoperable IM network in October. On Wednesday they indicated that they are considering cooperating on other services as well, although they wouldn't discuss specifics."We have all kinds of possibilities that we are not prepared to talk about,'' said Blake Irving, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, during a conference call with Brad Garlinghouse, his counterpart at Yahoo, and the Mercury News.Earlier this year, Yahoo rebuffed an offer by Microsoft to buy a stake in Yahoo's Internet search business."To be honest, Microsoft needs Yahoo probably more than Yahoo needs Microsoft,'' said Joe Wilcox, an analyst at Jupiter Research. While Microsoft has been investing in online services, revenue for the MSN unit fell during the last quarter, while Yahoo's ad revenue grew 35 percent and Google's grew 79 percent.Wilcox said a Microsoft user could conceivably chat with a friend on Yahoo, view the friend's photos on Yahoo's Flickr site and listen to a song on Yahoo's music site -- all the while viewing advertising, whose proceeds could be shared between Microsoft and Yahoo. ``There's lots of ways you can construct this,'' Wilcox said.
In May, Yahoo announced a major alliance with eBay that opened up the online marketplace to Yahoo ads. In exchange, Yahoo said it would adopt eBay's PayPal payment service as the online wallet for Yahoo sites.Initially, the new open messaging networks will be offered to users of the latest version of Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger in what is being described as a limited "beta'' test to make sure the networks can handle the combined load of 350 million accounts worldwide. "We are going to watch our service run very, very carefully while we roll it out,'' Irving said."We are going to make sure quality is first and volume is second.''Users of the open network will be able to exchange instant messages, see if their friends are online, share emoticons and add new contacts from either service. In the future, they will also be able to call each other on Internet phones, the executives said.According to Nielsen//Netratings, a market intelligence firm, Microsoft's MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger were the second-biggest instant messaging services in the United States with a combined 28 million users last month. AOL ranked first with 47 million users and Yahoo ranked third with 22 million users.Google's Google Talk, which is based on an open standard, has only a fraction of the users, 811,000, of the top three IM companies. |
Hey friends i think they are going to make a huge revolution in the web world.We shall wait and see what is gonna happen..........
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