Tristan O’Tierney | Mac Geek

Yahoo!’s starting to announce some details of the forthcoming Beta 2 (sorry for such a long delay between beta releases but there is a good reason.) We’ve got some coverage over at Ars Technica and TUAW. Here’s a rundown of the stuff coming:

• Tabs - Hoorah! We’re in the 21st century with client features. Even iChat hasn’t caught up here yet. Although Chax helps out there
• Archiving - This one was braindead obvious. We didn’t get it done in time due to political reasons
• Spotlight searching - Goes along with archiving
• Voice Chats - As we said in the release notes for Beta 1, voice is coming.

So there you have it. There are obvious bug fixes and other things coming that I can’t talk about, but that should hold most people over until we release the final version of 3.0. The (huge) delay in our beta 2 release is basically because of Voice — it takes time porting software across platforms. However never fear, it will be awesome!

Our interview with Jeff Smykil from Ars finally sees the light of day. Go give it a read. In other news Quynh and I also had our first anniversary a few days ago! It’s been a great year with everything I’ve done out here in Cali. I can’t imagine being anywhere else.