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Add Yahoo Messenger to your Website & Chat With Visitors

October 9th, 2008 Jigish Thakar No comments
yahoochat Add Yahoo Messenger to your Website & Chat With Visitors

Yahoo! Messenger 9 and a new service called Pingbox which is like a live chat box (in the form of a Flash Widget) that you may embed in any website or blog including your MySpace page.

Like the Google Talk badge, site visitors can send your private messages via the Pingbox chat box without requiring any IM client.

There are however some differences and the most noticeable one is that Yahoo! Pingbox embed inline in your website while Google Talk opens a pop-up window. The downside of Yahoo’s approach is that it extend the loading time of web pages because the widget will always download with the page. Read more…