Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 Yahoo! has released a software development kit (sdk) to allow third parties to create content plugins that users can add to their Yahoo IM.Plugins can be built using javascript, flash, or both.There are two categories of plugins. Conversation Plugins interact with the chat environment itself. For example, with the event finder plugin, two people chatting can bring up a Yahoo map and find pegged restaurantes, venues, etc. to discuss them. Another plugin that I saw demo’d was the “avatars space” where users can interact in a virtual environment using avatars, pull in flickr photos and othe props, etc. ...
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