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Sunnyvale, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 20, 2006 - Yahoo! Inc. has unveiled its real time communications suite, Yahoo! Messenger with Voice including custom plug-in features. Additionally, Yahoo! Messenger with Voice has opened up its Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to encourage external and Yahoo! developers to build plug-ins for the consumer instant messaging (IM) communities worldwide.

According to the company, with plug-ins, people will be able to take advantage of web services from Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, including an Amazon.com plug-in that allows users to share Wish Lists and an eBay plug-in.

Brad Garlinghouse, Senior Vice President of Communications, Community and Front Doors, Yahoo! Inc. explained, ”The new plug-ins for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice empower people to create the communications experience they want, by giving them a way to customize their IM service with their favorite web features and services. We are inviting developers to use Yahoo! Messenger with Voice’s plug-in technology in new and creative ways and believe that our tens of millions of users worldwide will benefit from industry-wide innovation as a result.”

Plug-ins are free mini applications that can be easily added to Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Plug-ins offer a way to further personalize IM, collaborate, and share experiences. By working with some of the most popular consumer Internet services and some of the most compelling emerging Internet services available, Yahoo! is bringing the best of the web into Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

In the beta version, a suite of third-party plug-ins will be available for Amazon.com, AmericanGreetings.com, Coupons, Inc., eBay, HedgeStreet, Inc., Jeteye, NewsGator Technologies Inc., Pando Networks Inc., 30Boxes, as well as plug-ins from Yahoo!’s leading web services including Yahoo! Answers, Calendar, Finance, Music, News, Sports, 360.

Amazon.com Plug-In: People can use the Amazon.com plug-in to view ‘What’s Hot’ and ‘What’s New’ across Amazon.com’s comprehensive collection of retail categories, and make recommendations to other Yahoo! Messenger with Voice users in real time. People can also share their Wish Lists with one another. This plug-in for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice uses Amazon.com product data and e-commerce functionality that is available through the Amazon E-Commerce Service from Amazon Web Services.

eBay Plug-In: The eBay plug-in gives people direct and timely access to the eBay marketplace. It provides the ability to track watched eBay listings, monitor bidding activity, and view items recently won. People can effortlessly stay on top of all eBay activity from within Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. The eBay plug-in was developed using eBay’s open APIs through the eBay Developers Program.

Yahoo! Calendar Plug-In: From the Yahoo! Calendar plug-in, people can compare calendars in real time, search Yahoo! Local and Yahoo! Maps for meeting places and send appointment invites through IM. People have the ability to add, edit or delete appointments while they are making arrangements with their friends and family through Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

Yahoo! Event Finder Plug-In: Friends and family can effortlessly plan their events together in this interactive plug-in. The Yahoo! Event Finder plug-in allows people to use Yahoo! Local to look up restaurants, museums, music venues or any event in their local area and use Yahoo! Maps to find the location. Yahoo! Music Plug-In: With the LAUNCHcast Radio Plug-in, people can listen to free customized or pre-programmed radio stations directly from Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

Yahoo! 360 Plug-In: People can more easily stay up-to-date with news by viewing blogs, photos or other Yahoo! 360 updates from Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Additionally, all Yahoo! Messenger with Voice users now have their own Yahoo! 360 page where they can information .

Through the Yahoo! Developer Network, Yahoo! allows products for third party developers usage to create applications which utilize Yahoo!’s technology. For the first time, Yahoo! is opening up its real time communication platform to spark innovation and encourage the developer community to create plug-ins with the new software developer kit.

New features include:

Increased Friends List: To keep up with the growing community of friends and family using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, people now have the ability to add up to 1000 contacts on their friends’ list.

Sound Effects: The Soundboard feature allows people to add short sound effects into their voice conversations, including ‘audience booing’ and ‘birds chirping’ sound effects. Additionally, with the Soundtrack feature, people can drag and drop MP3 music files stored on the PC and play as background music.

Increased File Transfer Limit: To meet the increasing need to easily transfer documents and photo images through IM, the file transfer size has increased ten times to 1 gigabyte.

The beta version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice is launching simultaneously in 19 localized versions around the world including: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Canada en francais, China, France, Hong Kong, Korea, India, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States and Yahoo! en Espanol. In the U.S., Yahoo! users in AT and T’s traditional 13-state local service area will receive an AT and T Yahoo! branded version of the new beta of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

Yahoo! Messenger with Voice allows users to interact and manage relationships with friends and family. According to Yahoo!, its Messenger with Voice has a history of innovation in instant messaging as the first to offer Webcam functionality, the first to introduce an interactive and shared experience with IMVironments, and the first to introduce animated emoticons. Yahoo! Messenger with Voice continues to the lead the marketplace by integrating with leading Yahoo! services including games, music, photos and search, and providing the greatest choice for consumers to stay connected to one another through text IM, PC-based calling, e-mail, video and mobile text messaging.

To learn more about the plug-in SDK, please visit: http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger.

For more information about Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, please visit: http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/messenger.

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