Infinite Loop interviews Yahoo! Messenger dev

When we first came across the beta of Yahoo! Messenger 3 we were impressed. This feels like an OS X app, not some crappy Windows port! Then we pretty much forgot about the whole thing, but Jeff Smykil at Infinite Loop didn't. He wanted to know why Messenger suddenly didn't suck on the Mac, and he wanted to know who was responsible.

It turns out that Tristan O'Tierney, who used to work on the Colloquy project amongst other things, has had a large part in making Messenger 3 beta what it is. Jeff interviews Tristan about all things Mac at Yahoo!, so go check it out.

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Source: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/10/17/5644

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When we first came across the beta of Yahoo! Messenger 3 we were impressed. This feels like an OS X app, not some crappy Windows port! Then...

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Mervin Jensen

I love this beta! I use Yahoo Messenger exclusively because my cousins in the Philippines use it and recently they tried to send me a picture but I couldn't receive it so I decided to update my messenger and saw this beta there and after downloading and installing it I was surprised by how polished it looked and how well it ran. I was able to get the picture and I can't wait till the full release.

October 21 2006 at 2:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tim de Ville

cool! thanks for that, I will give it a go then and see how i get on

October 18 2006 at 1:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tristan O'Tierney

The newest versions of both Microsoft messenger and Yahoo messenger for mac can talk to msn and yahoo people.

October 18 2006 at 1:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

topcat

Yeah, I loved the look and feel of the beta, but I dont know anybody that uses yahoo! Its such a shame because in the uk everybody seems to use msn messenger.
Now that msn messenger seems to have yahoo support, can we see yahoo support in msn messenger?

October 18 2006 at 11:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tristan O'Tierney

Hey Ted,

Which company do you work for? I met so many this year as always :)

October 18 2006 at 1:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ted

I met Tristan at WWDC this year. He's a great guy, and even though I am not really a fan of Yahoo or the Yahoo Messenger app, it's still good to see him and his team doing great things with the application.

October 17 2006 at 10:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply