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Yahoo! opens up Messenger to 3rd Party plug-ins

Yahoo! Messenger is about to get a significant new feature in the upcoming Yahoo! Messenger v8.0 beta that's to be released real soon now.

Consistent with other things on the Yahoo Developers Network, this release will allow 3rd parties to hook directly into the Messenger client to provide functions not currently available. Plug-ins will be held in the Developers Gallery that Yahoo! is moving all it's add-ons to.

Plug-ins can interact with Messenger in a couple of ways:
  • Tab plug-ins will allow you to display information in Messenger windows
  • Conversation plug-ins will let you interact with other users
The Messenger Gallery is live now, but it doesn't look like the Download and Developer pages are up yet.

I'll post impressions once I can grab the latest beta (regular readers know I'm a sucker for beta code...)

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