Getting an Earful
| Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 | --Sean |
I had really wanted to write about the Yahoo! Messenger message format Easter Egg, because I know I had surprised by the change when I upgraded to Messenger 9.0 and it was cool that the Messenger team appreciated that concern enough to provide functional, if convoluted, alternatives without even requiring me to download a new client. Of course, I had gotten used to the new look by now and subsequently didn't switch, but I still thought it was a nice gesture.
Of course, then the Messenger folks had to go and ruin my plans by announcing that Yahoo! Messenger for Mac now offers voice chat, which Mac users have been clamoring for ever since...well, forever, I guess. According to my agent in the field, the quality is good and his cell phone battery appreciates the reprieve from the draining work of making international phone calls -- if that's not a glowing endorsement, I don't know what is.
So, given that the addition of voice chat on the Mac is a much bigger announcement than a fun little format hack, I guess we won't mention the latter today, but you should definitely see if you can find a link to it somewhere (I'm sure someone is blogging about it!) and check it out, too.