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How to get Exclusive online Indicators

Posted by toalakan-web on November 6, 2008 1 comments

Exclusive online indicators is one of the features that Yahoo messenger power users get which can be used to display those special status images in Web and Messenger. Since Yahoo power user is one of the top 5 search keyword that get users to my site I decided to reveal a simple to get the web Exclusive Online indicator.

The exclusive online indicators are just better images nothing more than that. The online status indicator was their with the old Yahoo profile which got removed with new beta profile and I initially thought they removed it to prevents bots from getting user id. But every ones surprise they just hide this feature under the carpet and re-marketed the same Indicator with new images as a special feature for power users. One good marketing strategy which created the buzz..

Well not to bore you here is the URL that you would have to change to get online status of a user.

http://presence.msg.yahoo.com/online?u=XYZ&m=g&t=14

Just pass the user id to the U query string and t is an integer (0 – 16) and viola you get the beautiful icons. If you have too much time then you can create your own icons and switch the image.

Well here is something people should know about this service. The service will return an online status for an user when

  1. User is online in any of the messenger.
  2. User is invisible to a particular user but visible to other users. Yes the stealth setting are not stealth enough its like covering an elephant head with a paper towel and leaving the other area open.

It returns the offline when users is offline or invisible for every one.

Yahoo Power User

Posted by toalakan-web on August 19, 2008 1 comments

Today I got an email from the Yahoo messenger team stating that I have fallen in to the category of power user usin yahoo messenger which basically means I stay online more often then other users and annoy my friends :) .

As a way to thank me for using Yahoo messenger they are providing me with these new features which I’m happy to accept. You can also find the benefits of being a power user @ the following link.

  • 24/7 customer care. Not interested I’m already a premium user I pay for service so I better get 24/7.
  • Exclusive Online Indicators. Nice features and I have already added the online indicator to my sidebar. Check it out its nice. I will have to test this feature since I don’t want bots to IM me using the link. It would have been if they have given me an encrypted URL that hides my User ID.
  • Get exclusive icons and VIP recognition from friends. Not really fun but fine.
  • Access to Yahoo messenger closed beta programs before it goes public which again I get since I’m a premium Yahoo mail user. Not fun here as well.

Things that I would like to receive from Yahoo for being a power user/premium mail user which I have been asking for a long time.

  1. No more ads in my Yahoo messenger.
  2. No more ads in any email that I receive from my contacts who don’t have a premium mail account.
  3. No ads anywhere period.
  4. Online chat log storage similar to Gtalk. Well this should be available to all users.

Yahoo Message Archive Decoder (Yammy)

Posted by toalakan-web on August 13, 2008 Comments Off

I have always wondered why Yahoo didn’t implement a message archiver that exports the message and a search interface to search the log which Gtalk has been doing it for a long time.

This has been nagging me for a long time and today I finally found a free ware called YAMMY that converts all the message logs to individual html file. It doesnt have the search feature but at least I could back my messages now.

Its a very simple future that everyone needs but Yahoo denies the end users small wishes.

Talking about this I just remembered; When will Microsoft add the future to delete multiple book marks in IE.

Do you see it Microsoft – Yahoo are made for each other both deny the end user their small wishes.

I guess this song will be an apt situation song.

Chinna Chinna Aasai..

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