You don’t need to download now the famous Yahoo Messenger just to chat for your friends. Yahoo just launch also in Beta its own web based messenger. You can check it out here http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/

What’s the advantage? For office of course, by passing those IT restriction to use Yahoo Messenger, you can chat as you normally surf than downloading the installation of messenger. But as you notice there are already lots of services and site that you can chat on web based like meebo and others. MSN have also this web based messenger.

For yahoo, this is a great help to users of course.