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Goaaaal! Share Your Passion For Your Team From Yahoo!7 Mail

June 5th, 2010 Filed in: General Add comment

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The start of the world’s biggest sporting event – the FIFA World Cup — is just around the corner and the world is buzzing, rivalries are renewing, and even the smack talk has begun. Starting today on Yahoo!7 Mail, you can easily share your passion for your team. Go on, let your Yahoo!7 and Facebook friends know who you are shouting for!

Here’s how it works. Starting today, you will see a flag icon in the status area – the flag is based on the regional version and language of Yahoo! Mail that you use – If you have a Yahoo!7 Mail account, you will see the Australian flag.

By clicking on the flag, Yahoo!7 Mail will auto-fill your status message with a short phrase of support for that country.

Like any status message, you can customise it to your liking – most importantly, you can change the country you are rooting for by clicking on the drop-down arrow next to the flag. Once you do so, you can see the full list of countries that are participating. Click on the country you support and a suggested status message will populate just like before.

Once you click “Share”, your message will be broadcast to people who view your Updates on Yahoo!7. What’s even better is that you can also share your passion to your Facebook friends by clicking “Add Facebook” and linking your account (and there are many, many, many other benefits of linking your accounts). Sharing on Yahoo!7 and Facebook definitely gets the conversation going, even if everyone doesn’t always agree…

Share your passion for your team and don’t forget to check out the sweet smorgasbord of World Cup activities across Yahoo!7, sure to satisfy even the most ardent of fans.

Who are you shouting for in South Africa? (Tasla’s comment: Brazil and Australia, of course!)

Cheers,
Tasla – Yahoo!7 Mail team

Note: This post was written by Rick Pal, from the Yahoo! Mail Product Management group in the US. I have “localised” it by including screen shots from my Yahoo!7 Mail account to make it easier for users to learn how to use this feature. You can find the original post here.

Messenger Safety and Security Tip

May 6th, 2010 Filed in: General Add comment

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Please read this important post about how to stay safe while using Yahoo! Messenger.

As most of you know, Yahoo! takes security and spam infiltration seriously and employs various measures to help protect our users.Very recently we learned of an issue where some users have received spam messages in Yahoo! Messenger from their contact list. Yahoo! Messenger has quickly worked to resolve the situation.

As always, we recommend that any Yahoo! Messenger user who receives a suspicious IM containing a link should first IM the friend to ensure the message is legitimate before moving forward. We strongly advise users to not download executable (.exe) files that are sent through Yahoo! Messenger. Also, we recommend that users that have anti-virus software on their computer employ the latest anti-virus updates.

Thanks,
Tasla – Yahoo!7 Messenger team

Yahoo! Messenger app for the iPhone – now with WLM interop!

May 5th, 2010 Filed in: Announcements, Yahoo!7 Messenger Add comment

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We’ve added one of the most requested features to our latest version of Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone (1.4): the ability to chat with your Windows Live contacts.  Now when you’re on your iPhone, your Windows Live friends will be able to see when you’re online, and send and receive messages from them. You can also add new Windows Live friends right from the app. In addition to supporting Windows Live conversations, we also added more languages in a prior release. Those of you who speak French, German, Italian, and Spanish can enjoy Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone in your native tongue. If your iPhone is set to one of those four languages, Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone will detect that automatically and load the same language.

To download the new version, tap the App Store icon on your iPhone and search for Yahoo! Messenger (you may also see an update alert on your App Store icon). Or click here to download it through iTunes. We hope you enjoy this latest version. If you have any technical issues with Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone, please send us feedback by tapping on “Settings”, then scrolling down and tapping on “Report Problem”.

This was announced earlier this month, by our Global Product Manager in the US, Thyaga Vasudevan.

Now you can enjoy IMing on the go with your friends from WLM too!

Tasla – Yahoo!7 Messenger team