Yahoo!'s recently decided to open up the gates of its Yahoo! Messenger to software developers.With their latest 8.0 release for Windows, they're also releasing an SDK which enables developers to create interactive plugins or 'mashups' in JavaScript, Flash or a combination of the two. Sounds interesting, beginning of a new snowball effect? (question to MSN, AOL, Gtalk, Skype). TechCrunch has more .










