Beginning Monday, some Yahoo Mail users will be able to chat in real time through their e-mail program. Yahoo said in November that it would embed instant-messaging technology directly into its Yahoo Mail program so that users wouldn’t have to open up–or even install–Yahoo Messenger or another IM ,service to chat with each other online.

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This should be an interesting venture, perhaps they are doing this to not only compete with google, but perhaps with the likes of meebo and other web driven instant messengers?

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