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Yahoo Messenger Brings New Features That Helps Online Sharing

Yahoo announced that the third most popular instant communications service (after eBay`s Skype and AOL`s AIM), Yahoo Messenger, is getting a new a refreshing boost. Yahoo will allow users to embed formerly independent programs into their Yahoo Messenger to help them collaborate activities between different users.

Yahoo wants their users to be able to share online activities with one another. For example, people will be able to open Yahoo Calendar and use it together with other online users to set appointments and work on schedules together. The different programs will allow users to watch videos together.

Most PC users today use their computer to access the internet. Therefore, once offline oriented programs are becoming online oriented and all software developers are trying to find ways for customers to use their programs online with other people. Yahoo Messenger aims to collaborate with other online application to form a comfortable working environment whereas other instant communications services require the user to install third party software and to mange their own online sharing capabilities.