After a long time wait yahoo has finally released the final version of yahoo messenger 9.0, the exact version is 9.0.0.1912 which has been made final after lot of beta testing.

This time yahoo messenger has been released with some wonder full features like PingBox which can be embedded on any website with which the site visitors chat with the webmaster directly on his yahoo mail ID.

What's new on Yahoo Messenger 9 :

- Pingbox™


- New skins
- Return of the (original) emoticons
- Ignore list enhancements
- Inline video & picture viewer
- New emoticons inspired by YM users
- Import Contacts wizard
- Yahoo! Updates
- Call forwarding & new voicemail delivery
- Yahoo! Games are back
- Changes to the look and feel

Emoticons are a great way to express our feelings and moods. Yahoo messenger comes with a default set of emoticons. Using the default emoticons doesn’t need any special effort.

We insert emoticons by two ways:

- One is to click the emoticon icon to get a list of default set of emoticons.

- The other way is to type the character combinations to display the desired emoticon.
For example, type :) to get the first emoticon.

Many of us do not know that there are many emoticons that are not listed in the default list.

There are two ways to access them:

- One is to type the character combinations.

- The other method is the subject of this post.

so let's see how:

The next version of Windows Live Wave 3 suite of products is now available for download on download.live.com.

This includes Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail, Outlook-Hotmail connector among other programs.

Here’s a list of new / updated features introduced in Windows Live Wave 3:

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

Yes this is so true very soon you will use this service you can chat with Yahoo messenger friend from your Google talk or Yahoo to G talk.

So no need to try some hacks to do this, coz very soon this service will be activated.

Invisiable.net offers a yahoo invisible detector for webmasters.

This XML API is now ready for use and every one can put yahoo invisible detector in his website.

That means you can connect to invisiable.net server and use this service on your website too.