Comments on: GTalk and Yahoo Messenger to be made interoperable

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:00:22 +0000

Thanks Vinay for the info – even I wasn’t sure whether this is something new or not.

And yeah, I too agree with you that we need better interoperability and lets hope Y!/GTalk provides that.

By: Vinay

Vinay — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:46:57 +0000

FYI: The talks have been since the time Google made a Press Release somewhere in June 2008 (Google Announces Non-Exclusive Advertising Services Agreement with Yahoo! in U.S. and Canada) – http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080612_yahoo.html

“In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services bringing easier and broader communication to users. ”

I am looking forward for this movie..but have no clue if this will make the IM’s any better.. I did try adding few of my MSN Contacts in Yahoo! but for some reason.. I didn’t like using it.. and had to switch bakc to MSN to chat with them.

More than being interoperale.. I would look forward from Google/Yahoo in bringing the features of respective IM’s to other users using other service.

Cheers,
Vinay

By: Anshul

Anshul — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:18:13 +0000

That will be a great move.
Right now I find it very convinient to chat with my MSN friends right from the Yahoo! Messenger. And also adding MSN friends is a breeze. ( I didn’t get your point of basic challenge )

However the Y!m MSN interoperability is limited only to text chat and it would be better if there can be voice chat and file exchange as well. I hope GTalk-Yahoo! would have those features.

By: Munim

Munim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:51:30 +0000

wow.. I wholeheartedly welcome this move! I have a few friends on yahoo who don’t use Google talk and I find it inconvenient to log in Yahoo messenger just to chat with those few friends.