Obstacles Loom As Yahoo! Tests Mobile-Capable Social Messaging Site
by Russell Shaw
We learn from Silicon Valley-based news and gossip site Valleywag that Yahoo has plans to launch a social messaging service it is calling MyM.
“From what we’ve heard, MyM sounds a lot like Meebo, the website which allows users to access multiple instant-messaging clients at once. MyM will actually hook into Meebo, as well as Friendster, MySpace, LiveJournal, AIM, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo’s own IM software,” Valleywag reports.
No reason that MyM can’t be mobile.
Yet befitting Valleywag’s strong gossip and debunking self-awareness, the site also quotes unidentified internal Yahoo! types as feeling MyM is “awkward,” and that competitors are likely to block the service.
If competitors try to block this thing, I can promise you there will be very loud rumblings in Commentstan (my term for blog Comment fields).
Right now, the service is in pre-beta invitation mode. Don’t you hate that? Now you know how those folks who were denied admittance to trendy discos in the late 1970s felt when the bouncers told them not to darken their doorways.
