With Version 6.0, Yahoo has more closely linked its other portal services into the Messenger client. Click here to read a review of Yahoo Business Messenger. zimages/5/28571.gif Yahoo also offers an enterprise version of its IM service. They want to be more self-expressive and use IM as a communications hub and easily get to the things they want to do online.вЂќ вЂњIM is not just about chat anymore,вЂќ Mann said. Yahoo also added 24 of what it calls вЂњaudibles,вЂќ or animated expressions that can be added into a message to convey emotion. Users can customize the avatars with thousands of combinations of clothing items and accessories, and they can choose different personal photos or avatars for each of their IM contacts, said Lisa Pollock Mann, senior director of messaging products at Yahoo. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company on Monday released a beta version of its next Yahoo Messenger client, officially numbered Version 6.0 but being marketed simply as the вЂњAll-New Yahoo Messenger.вЂќ In the release, Yahoo has significantly redone the look and feel and added new personalization options that let users accompany their messages with their own photos as well as graphical representations of people, called avatars. is giving its instant-messaging service a face-lift and integrating it more closely with a range of its portal services such as Internet radio, Web search and online address book.

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