YamiGo - Go mobile chatting
Thursday, 12 June 2003
Yamigo brings to you a new way of chatting. Take your mobile phone and chat with your friends or colleagues. Send and receive instant messages to and from other phones and or PCs. Yamigo can communicate via mobile, PC or PDA.
Optimized for GPRS and 3G networks Yamigo is an implementation of the facto standard for mobile world chat, the Wireless Village specification. For more info see
http://www.openmobilealliance.org and http://www.openmobilealliance.org/WirelessVillage/
YamiGo is more than just a chat service. YamiGo is all about information exchange and communication. You can easily subscribe to news feeds (eg sports events like football or Formula One) and receive live update commentary from the event. More about this feature will be made available very soon.
Setup your Motorola
Thursday, 26 February 2004
Configuring Motorola Phones
The configuration settings for the IM Client are found under the IM option of the main menu. Go to Offline Settings -> ISP Settings to access the configuration settings.
The configuration settings you need to enter are:
• GPRS APN - This specifies the Access Point Name (APN) on the GPRS network that should be used for establishing IP connectivity for the IM client.
• User name - This setting should contain the name of the user account obtained from the Yamigo Server.
• Password - This setting should contain the password of the user account defined on the Yamigo Server.
• IM Server - www.yamigo.com
• IM Port - 80
• Post URL - /wv/control
• Secure Login - This setting specifies whether or not the password for the account is ever transmitted in the clear. Both available settings are supported by the Yamigo IMPS Server.
Setup your SonyEricsson
Thursday, 26 February 2004
In the SonyEricsson phones, the IM Client configuration resides under the My Friends application on the mobile phone, under the menu option More/Accounts.
The configuration settings you need to enter are:
• Username - This setting should contain the name of the user account obtained from the Yamigo Server.
• Domain - This setting should be left blank or you can enter yamigo.com (any other domain will be rejected at login).
• Password - This setting should contain the password of the user account defined on the Yamigo Server.
• Server - http://yamigo.com/wv/control
• Internet Profile - This setting points to an existing internet profile configured on the mobile phone. Use an appropriate profile that will facilitate connectivity to the HTTP URL of the Yamigo IMPS Server.
• Allow Connection - This setting allows you to specify whether the IM Client can be used when connected to any network, or if it should only be used when connected to your home network operator. Specify Home Network in most cases to avoid unexpected, and often exorbitant, data roaming charges.
Some SonyEricsson phones will have additional settings, such as Check Interval which specifies an interval in seconds for polling the IMP Server. Please refer to the documentation for your mobile phone for more information.
Setup your Nokia series 40 and series 60
Thursday, 26 February 2004
Configuring Nokia Series 60 Phones
In the Nokia Series 60 (Symbian) phones, IM settings can be configured under the Chat or Presence applications. Go to Options -> Settings to access the Server Settings configuration for the IM Client.
The configuration settings you need to enter are:
• Server Name - This is a descriptive name for the server which is used only within the IM Client for display purposes.
• Access Point in Use - This specifies the internet access point (settings profile) that should be used for IM client connections. Use an appropriate profile that will facilitate connectivity to the HTTP URL of the Yamigo IMPS Server.
• Web Address - http://yamigo.com/wv/control
• User ID - This setting should contain the name of the user account obtained from the Yamigo Server.
• Password - This setting should contain the password of the user account defined on the Yamigo Server.
Configuring Nokia Series 40 Phones
In the Nokia Series 40 phones, IM settings can be found under by selecting Messages from the main menu. Go to Chat and Connect Settings. For these devices, it is difficult to select an existing configuration setting that is used by the mobile phone browser, and adapt it for use by the IM Client. You may need to manually copy the settings that are used by the WAP browser on the phone by re-entering them into the IM Client settings.
The configuration settings you need to enter are:
• Chat and presence service name - This is just a descriptive name.
• Homepage - http://yamigo.com/wv/control
• User ID - This setting should contain the name of the user account obtained from the Yamigo Server.
• Password - This setting should contain the password of the user account defined on the Yamigo Server.
• Connection Settings - This opens another menu to define IP connectivity settings.
• Settings' name - This is just a descriptive anem.
• Proxies - This setting specifies whether or not connections will be routed through a proxy. Enable this setting if you will be connecting to the Yamigo Server via a proxy.
• Primary Proxy and Secondary Proxy refer to the address(es) of the WAP or HTTP proxy server(s) through which you will be connecting. Enter the proxy information if required for your configuration.
• Data Bearer specifies the data bearer that will be used for the connection (e.g., GPRS, EDGE, UMTS).
• Bearer Settings - This will open another menu to define settings specific to the selected Data Bearer. Typical you'll be required to enter an Access Point Name (APN), and settings for a username and password if they are required for connecting to the APN. Contact your mobile operator for a correct set of settings.
For a complete list of Nokia phones supporting Instant Messaging and Presence visit: http://nokia.com/nokia/0,,48546,00.html
Chat rooms/Groups @ Yamigo
Monday, 07 March 2005
The concept of user group means a discussion forum formed by two or more individuals (users) to exchange information, opinions, comments, thoughts about a particular issue, which is the topic of the particular group.
These user groups may be categorized by:
Ownership:
• Public (created and maintained by service provider)
• Private (created and maintained by a subscriber)
Membership:
• Open (any users may join the group)
• Restricted (only particular users may join the group)
A user may create a private user group at any time.
The values of the group properties are defined by the owner, or by group member(s) with sufficient access rights. Only Administrators may modify these property values. Each group may have the following properties:
Name: a string that is presented to the user as the name of the group. Default value is an empty string.
Accesstype:
• open (for everyone)
• restricted (members only). Default value is "open".
Type:
• public (maintained by service provider)
• private (maintained by individual user(s)).
PrivateMessaging:
• T (sending private messages is enabled)
• F (sending private messages is disabled). Default value is "F".
Searchable:
• T (the group is subject to search)
• F (the group is no included in searching). Default value is "F".
Topic: a string that describes the subject of discussion in the group. The topic is subject to searching if allowed. The default value is an empty string.
MaxActiveUsers: an integer number that indicates the maximum number of joined users at any given time. Default value is set by the group service.
WelcomeNote: a string that is presented as text to the user when he/she joins the group. The default value is an empty structure.
History:
• T (message history is supported)
• F (message history is not supported)
If server supports the message history functionality, user/client can request it for a new or existing group.
Each user may have his/her own properties for each group individually. These properties include:
PrivateMessaging:
• T (sending private messages is enabled)
• F (sending private messages is disabled). Default value is "F"
AutoJoin
• T (serve r joins the client automatically to the particular group)
• F (server does not join client automatically to the particular group) Default value is "F" for every user in every group.
