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Yahoo said today that it is adding new features to its instant messaging service.

Ubiquity and interoperability are the key features in the newly launched, web-based Yahoo Messenger client: it runs on multiple web browsers (including Opera, yay!) and can chat with Windows Live Messenger users.

Wayne Crookes, a former campaign manager of the Green Party of Canada, is suing Google, Wikipedia and openpolitics.ca for libel. He is suing the sites for posting made by anonymous users on Google's Blogspot, for an entry under his name on Wikipedia, and on openpolitics.ca, a political forum run by Michael Pilling a Green Party activist.

Yahoo has started integrating Yahoo Messenger into Yahoo Mail, just like Google did with Gmail over a year ago. Because of Yahoo’s cool tabbed IM interface, the IM window is full size, supersized even, making for lots of room for avatars, rich text editing controls, and timestamps.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Yahoo brings two services into an integrated communications package. Yahoo Mail beta users should start to see the Messenger functionality first discussed in November 2006.

While no doubt Google's simple and clean applications have been a hit with some users, I'm really impressed with what Yahoo is showing off in its new Messenger for Windows Vista.

Yahoo! Messenger with Voice has just greatly increased its number of potential uses. Yahoo "officially launched (out of beta) its newest IM service with more than 180 custom plug-in features available to users worldwide" last night.

Yahoo! Messenger with Voice now includes plug-ins "designed to let people to do things like track eBay auctions, see friends' wish lists on Amazon.com, collaborate real-time on event planning and compare calendars with contacts" (via ZDNet).