Yahoo! today introduced Yahoo! Messenger 9 and a new service called Pingbox which is like a live chat box (in the form of a Flash Widget) that you may embed in any website or blog including your MySpace page.
Like the Google Talk badge, site visitors can send your private messages via the Pingbox chat box without requiring any IM client.
There are however some differences and the most noticeable one is that Yahoo! Pingbox embed inline in your website while Google Talk opens a pop-up window. The downside of Yahoo’s approach is that it extend the loading time of web pages because the widget will always download with the page.
Themes inside Yahoo! Pingbox Studio
Another difference is that you can customize the look-n-feel of your Yahoo! Pingbox through the dozen or so themes available in the Pingbox studio.
Thge Pingbox widget on the site will reflect the current status of your Yahoo! Messenger and will automatically become unavailable when you go offline or set your status as ‘invisible.’
Related: Blog Add-ons, Embed Chat in your Blog
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Reader Comments
I notice you mentioned Google having a similar service but not mention of Windows Live Messenger also have a similar service.
Written by JKav on 09.24.08
Hm.. weird… I’m using pingbox since a couple of weeks… it’s not new, sir.
Written by Dale on 09.24.08
It is good that Yahoo has come out with this option. Wonder why they did not come out with this feature long time ago. Anyways better late than never.
Written by Avinash on 09.24.08
It will increase Interaction with visitors , specially with INDIAN visitors , as Yahoo! is still the most popular chat tool in India .
Written by ArpitNext on 09.24.08
The only problem is that you can’t chat back using a multi-protocol client like Trillian, Digsby - which is a big con for me!
Written by sanjay on 10.14.08