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If you have email account with yahoo, then you have probably been greeted with a similar window like below. It says: “Now you can chat inside Yahoo! Mail”. Finally!

I was expecting this to happen long time ago, since Yahoo Mail introduced new improved (optional) version. I hardly login to my yahoo messenger, most of the time I login when my friends ask me to come online. Or if I have a messenger conference with some clients. Otherwise my yahoo messenger just stays idle. Since I check my mail everyday, this new feature will allow me to keep in touch with my friends and people in my contact list more frequently (without logging into messenger).

You can set your status to any status and also see who are online from your contact list (address book). It shows the the number, upon clicking it will show the details of the contacts.

This is how the web chat looks inside the yahoo mail.

You can read more about this new feature at Yahoo! Mail Help.

Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo for $50 billion and asked Yahoo to resume acquisition talks. Yahoo! reportedly agreed.

Following the news Yahoo shares jumped 17.96 percent to $33.24 in Nasdaq trading on Friday, while Microsoft shares fell 1.26 percent to $30.58. The two companies have held informal talks over the years, but the latest approach comes as Microsoft seeks a deal to counter Google’s rapid growth.

If the deal goes through, how would MSN and Yahoo search engines operate? Would they stay separate or become one Search Engine? These are the questions bloggers would like to know, because different blogs have different search rankings in Yahoo and MSN results. Well, let’s wait and see.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - In its latest acquisition of a social networking service, Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) on Friday devoured del.icio.us Inc., a startup that enables people to more easily compile and share their favorite content on the Web. Del.icio.us will continue to run its own Web site, which allows users to create a personal account so they can create a page devoted to their favorite online articles, music and reviews. The material can be shared with others simply by sending along the Web link. The content also can be identified with labels, or “tags,” to make it simpler to find. via yahoo news

Yahoo Publisher Network has added RSS feed advertising. Currently it supports Wordpress and MovableType powered blogs. Yahoo Publisher Network is still in beta testing and open to only US citizens at the moment.

publisher.yahoo.com/portal/AboutRSS.php

Yahoo has launched their own a Yahoo! Podcasts service, check it out podcasts.yahoo.com

Now you can login to Flickr using your Yahoo ID, as you may remember Flickr has been acquired by Yahoo recently. flickr.com/signin/