Yahoo Messenger: Interoperability with MSN
Some interesting stats from a Harris Interactive study commissioned by Yahoo on instant messaging interoperability:
[via email from Joshua Gershman]Some IM Users Are Willing to Forego Their Guilty Pleasures for Inter-Connectivity Feature:
- 29% said they’d be willing to give up watching American Idol
- 16% said they’d give up ice cream for one month
- 15% are willing to give up their morning cup of coffee
- 15% said they’d give up their morning paper
Some other interesting findings:
- One in four IM users surveyed said that being able to use one IM service to connect with friends on other IM services is the next great thing since the creation of the cell phone.
- 57% of the IM users surveyed have a friend or family member on a different IM service.
- More than one-third (35%) of students (over the age of 18) use more than one IM service.
These findings accompany the relatively quiet release (at last) of interoperability between MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger that I am told has gone live this week. I have also heard that interoperability is supported by the Yahoo Messenger client on both Windows and Mac OS X.
I highly recommend using Meebo. It's like Trillian, but for your browser. The perfect at-work stick-it-to-your-IT-department widget.
Posted by: Daniel | September 29, 2006 at 04:31 AM
Until IT blocks *.meebo.com at the firewall.
Posted by: Joe | September 29, 2006 at 11:12 AM
You can also try eBuddy.
Meebo's been blocked, so I use eBuddy.
It's an online mesenger like Meebo, supports MSN, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ
www.ebuddy.com
Posted by: Fratz | December 08, 2006 at 04:03 AM