Yahoo! combine email & IM

There is good news for people who are hooked to chatting. Taking a cue from Google, which has already integrated chatting into its email service Gmail, Yahoo! also plans to do away with installing the Yahoo! messenger client on the machine. The users can now access the Yahoo! messenger from within the Yahoo! mail page.



The new feature, built on the Yahoo! Messenger platform, began rolling out today to Yahoo! Mail beta users worldwide, and will be available to all users in the coming months.

"Yahoo! is focused on making it easier for people to connect to those who matter most to them," said John Kremer, vice president, Yahoo! Mail. "By bringing Yahoo!'s leading instant messaging capabilities to e-mail users, we're transforming Yahoo! Mail into a tool that's about communicating; regardless of the form that communication takes."



The users will be able to see the online status of their contacts and then exchange messages real time. This brings an end to the tiresome part of downloading and installing the IM client and will bring along a seamless experience across various applications - the best part of Web 2.0.