Om Malik is pretty
confident the Yahoo! Messenger PC to Phone services for US users will accompany a roll-out of a new version of
Yahoo! Messenger next week. He's attending VoN, The Voice over The Net
trade show, where it was thought we'd hear such an
announcement. He says, "The new release of the IM client has a brand new voice core, and it allows users
to make phone calls to PSTN phones as well, in addition to PC-to-PC calls."
A little
disconcerting is his observation, "As part of this new release, Yahoo is also going to incorporate banner
ads."
1. "As part of this new release, Yahoo is also going to incorporate banner ads."
Oh no, as well as getting our MSN contacts via Yahoo, we're also going to get MSN style banner ads in the interface? That will be a major turn off. I was hoping the absence of ads would be a major marketing point against using MSN when the two become interoperable.
Posted at 12:26PM on Mar 17th 2006 by Kenny