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First it was Google the great to introduce this fantastic feature of chatting inside the Inbox and now Yahoo has come up with the same feature. I guess employees at different organizations and students would have appreciated this feature the most as at many organizations and similarly at schools/colleges chatting is not allowed and to stop people from chatting, no IM applications are installed on PCs there. Though web messengers have resolved this problem to a great extent but then again they become too obvious while u use them so u can easily get caught

Furthermore chatting facilities inside inbox turn out to be very helpful for the ones using smart phones, PDAs etc. as well.

It has been more than a month since Yahoo introduced this feature in Yahoo Mail Beta and I wanted to blog about it soon after I found it but then decided to wait for some time and see how it evolves. Initially there were some bugs like even if no one is online it would show 1 contact as online and excitedly when you try to check out who’s online you see a smiley with ‘Me’ written in front of it.

Apart from this I remember not finding any status options other than ‘Online’ but now all the regular status options have been made available including my all time favorite “Invisible” Other than this you can chat pretty smoothly as so far I haven’t experienced any hitches while using it.

Following are some of the screen shots I captured while using it 

Update:

I just found out that the bug about showing the user himself/herself as a contact is still there. When one chooses to stay ‘Invisible’ it does not show up ,however, as soon as u change ur status to ‘Online’ or ‘Busy’, a contact appears to be online on ur list and that contact is noone but u urself….weird…Yahoo needs to check this out!