Three great bits of information for you. First, Yahoo is opening (somewhat) its I.M. and voice applications platform based around Yahoo Messenger with Voice to application developers. C++, JavaScript, AJAX, and ActiveX are all supported frameworks for the fruit of your API labor. The extensions you'll create are known as "plug ins". However, the "plug ins" that you can apparently develop might bear some resemblance to the following plug ins, available now:
In the beta version, a suite of third-party plug-ins will be available for Amazon.com, AmericanGreetings.com, Coupons, Inc., eBay, HedgeStreet, Inc., Jeteye, NewsGator Technologies Inc., Pando Networks Inc., 30Boxes, as well as plug-ins from Yahoo!'s leading Web services including Yahoo! Answers, Calendar, Finance, Music, News, Sports, 360°.
This can mean one of two things--either Yahoo Widgets (Konfabulator) has gone full circle in Yahoo's programming department, OR the failed I.M. robots idea got carried over from AIM (actually AIM I.M. bots are really a carryover from IRC's heyday, but whatever).
Also new is a 1 GIGABYTE file transfer limit (YAY!) and sound effects (YAWN). Still apparently missing from Yahoo's consciousness is Mac OS X sensibilty. I really don't believe Yahoo has any desire to deliver on the Mac client they've been unofficially promising for the last several years.
Here's Yahoo's Dev Site.
Yahoo Messenger w/Voice Opens to Developers
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. are there yahoo robots? I have been trying to find them but I dont even know if there are any, but if there are can you tell me, if there are any or what the robots are so I can add them? my E-mail i_luv_greenday_yo@yahoo.com
Posted at 12:09PM on Aug 23rd 2006 by Roy
1. If you want to compare Yahoo Voice with others, you can have a look over here; http://www.voipproducts.eu
Posted at 3:18PM on Jul 8th 2006 by Trumb