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Yahoo has introduced a web based version of Yahoo Messenger. This is most likely a response to Google, which delivered an online version of Google Talk in April this year.
Yahoo’s web messenger is built in flash and each conversation opens in a new tab inside the browser window. The web messenger also saves all your conversations and makes them available via a searchable history from within the same browser window. This is different from Google Talk, which saves your conversations irrespective of whether you chatted from Gmail or Web or the IM Client. However the history is only made available from within Gmail and you can not find it from the Google Talk client.
Another difference between the Google Talk gadget and Yahoo’s current offering is that Google Talk gadget could be viewed inside a browser sidebar or included inside your Personalized home page, where as Yahoo’s web messenger occupies the entire browser window similar to what Meebo does. This is something that I for one don’t like. I want to keep doing my work and at the same time be aware of my friends’ status in the sidebar, where as Yahoo web messenger makes chat and work an exclusive activity.
Yahoo Research Berkeley also released a plugin called Zync, which allows you to share videos in sync with your friends, something that Google copied in its March release of Google Talk Gadget.
