Chat with the visitors Live on your site with Yahoo! Pingbox
Yahoo! Messenger 9, was released recently, and it came with several new features which make it pretty enhanced as compared to its prior versions. One of such feature which was showcased with Yahoo! Messenger 9, is Yahoo! Pingbox.
What is Yahoo! Pingbox
Yahoo! Pingbox, is a Widget, which allows you to chat with visitors of your site, or profile on different social media sites, using your Yahoo! ID (i.e. you should be online on your Yahoo Messenger, in order to let your visitors chat with you) irrespective of, the visitors status i.e. online/offline/even if the visitor does not have a Yahoo Messenger ID.
When you choose to avail Yahoo! Pingbox for you, you get an embedded code, all you need to do is paste it on your site.
How to get a Pingbox
To get a Pingbox, you can create on for yourself, here, the Pingbox creation wizard is simple and self explanatory, just involves two steps -
Step 1.
Choose the background theme (includes Background color, Text font etc.) for your Pingbox, Create a message to be displayed in both the cases, when you are Online, and when Offline, also choose the display name for you at your Pingbox.
Configuring Yahoo Ping Box Step 1
Step 2.
Configuring Yahoo Ping Box Step 2
Shown below are two snapshots of Yahoo! Pingbox, which I created for me.
Conversation in Yahoo Ping Box
You can choose, the website, where you want this Yahoo! Pingbox, or if you want it to be displayed on some independent site, you can go for the ‘Code Only’ option, and then copy the code and you are ready with your Pingbox.
Yahoo! Pingbox seems to be a nice tool, to get a better level of interaction with your visitors, and it might turn up to be a proactive mode of communication, which is something everybody likes to have. Apart from this Yahoo! assures complete privacy of every conversation done using Yahoo! Pingbox. So try Yahoo! Pingbox, and share your experiences
Posted on 10th October 2008 by Manav Mishra , here to write articles about things which are somehow related to computers, internet (and at times, may be, to blogging as well). He wants to make an Identity for himself, he loves, testing new softwares and services which can really help to improve the productivity of individual. All posts by Manav Mishra | Connect with me @ Twitter | Stumble
How to add ping box in facebook.com explain
@ Ahmed, please visit
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/add-yahoo-pingbox-to-your-facebook-profile/
I tried it and added to my blogspot. It always shows as invisible.
I added it to my blogspot. It never works. Always shows me as offline though I am online and using the lastest Y! IM.
@ Amudhan, Well I tried it here on my blog and it was working pretty fine, as you can see in the image above, may be blogspot has some kind of restriction.
i also agree…..i could not make in work…
i am using messenger 9.0 beta…
it never shows me online…though i am online…
i logged in again…created that box again..but none worked…
shows offline…even in same computer
@tester, Well, its been long since i used this, but you can have a look at this video on this post
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/add-yahoo-pingbox-to-your-facebook-profile/
This video shows Pingbox being successfully installed on the Facebook, and it is done by choosing the code only option, i.e. no specific option for Facebook exists, so, the same code should work on any website as well, still I will try to find out the reason, will test it again, meanwhile you guys can try updating your Yahoo Messenger, see if it works.
how to add pingbox in gmail. explain?
@ m.vamsi, I dont think this would be possible, if you find some way to have Pingbox in Gmail, do share with us too.
Hi there..
i’m also having problem with the pingbox. i add it to my blogspot. it does show that i’m online. I asked my frined to send me a message via the pingbox but i never received it. not like what u show above..
can you please help or let me know what’s the problem??
thanks!
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