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Your Social Life As You Know It Ends Now: Facebook chat Now Works on Mobiles
Ive dreaded this moment, but it was bound to happen. Facebook chat now supports Jabber protocol (same as Gtalk), and it was only a matter of time until someone creates a mobile version, something tha ....... read more
Mon,
22 Sep 2008
Bebo IM Was Removed Days Ago and Nobody Seems to Care
If the feelings of the most outspoken Bebo users are any indication, Bebo IM, the relative equivalent to Facebook chat, has few fans. Very few.
What was introduced nearly one month prior to today to a ....... read more
Sat,
20 Sep 2008
toksta Provides Free Audio, Video, and Text chat for Your Site (The Startup Review)
Editor?s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusi ....... read more
Fri,
05 Sep 2008
The Empire Strikes Back as Second Life Announces Instant Messenger SLim
It didnt take long for Second Life, a leader in 3D Virtual Worlds, to respond to There.coms announcement of new features.The most compelling new feature There.com revealed was its innovative ThereI ....... read more
Thu,
04 Sep 2008
10 Tools to Get the Most Out of GTalk
For those of us who are active Google Talk (GTalk) users, sometimes chatting is not enough. Luckily, there are tools to make your GTalk experience more interesting like VOIP, translations, and more. ....... read more
Thu,
21 Aug 2008
18 Tools to Turn Firefox 3 into a Communications Portal
Firefox can be made into so much more than just a browser via its huge extension base. Yes, this means you can replace some of your instant messenger, chat and microblogging needs by adding just a fe ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008
Firefly Launches Web-Based chat for Individual Sites
Betaworks, a type of incubator program based in New York, has just released the public beta of a simply integrated chat tool for site owners, called Firefly. The simplicity comes by way of no downloa ....... read more
Wed,
30 Jul 2008
Twitter is Not a Micro-Blogging Tool
Blogging for all intents and purposes has been around for about the ten year mark. During that time it has gone through many changes as more platforms and tools became available that made it easier an ....... read more
Fri,
18 Jul 2008
Zlango is Web 2.0 Hieroglyphics for Email, Facebook, Mobile & More [Israel Media Tour]
Company Name: Zlango
Founded in: 2004
Location: Tel Aviv
Zlango is an icon service that converts your plain English into icons that you can use for mobile messages, chat, and email. The Tel-Aviv b ....... read more
Tue,
15 Jul 2008
KickApps Adds Userplane?s Facebook-like chat to Social Networks
KickApps, which powers social networks for some 27,000 sites, has partnered with Userplane to enable their customers to add chat and instant messaging. This means that all KickApps social networks ca ....... read more
Tue,
15 Jul 2008
Living without Twitter with No Regrets
I was going through my normal routine this morning of IV?ing my daily allotment of caffeine into my system, reading my email, going through my blog feeds in FeedDemon and then finishing up with a good ....... read more
Mon,
14 Jul 2008
Skabble?s Desktop chat Enables Social Web Browsing
Skabbles new desktop chat tool has a lot of potential, but not many practical features just yet. If youre going to launch a new chat client, youre going to have to consider the fact that there are ....... read more
Tue,
08 Jul 2008
Browzmi Social Browsing: How it Compares to FriendFeed, Flock and Yoono
Earlier today I reviewed a desktop chat client called Skabble, which had potential as a bookmarking and browser-integrated service, but fell short. Shortly after I was introduced to another new chat ....... read more
Tue,
08 Jul 2008
hi5 Acquires PixVerse for Cross-Network chat
Social network hi5 has just announced its acquisition of application creator PixVerse for an undisclosed amount. PixVerse, the Flash-based virtual world chat platform, has branched out into social ne ....... read more
Mon,
30 Jun 2008
iGoogle Tests chat, Open Social, and Activity Feeds
The latest update to iGoogles sandbox promised more social capabilities for developers, with the biggest enhancement being the support for Open Social applications in activity streams. This version ....... read more
Thu,
26 Jun 2008
Developers Turn to Meebo to Make Social Networking Apps Stickier
Web sites are always trying to make themselves stickier ? in other words, keeping people on their pages longer so they can serve more ads. Through its API, chat provider Meebo is now looking to help ....... read more
Thu,
26 Jun 2008
Create Custom Designed Meebo Rooms
Meebo has just launched new design options for Meebo Rooms so that you can customize them with your own background images and color attributes. Previously, Meebo was only offering these options to so ....... read more
Thu,
05 Jun 2008
Piczo Users Creating 3,000 chat Rooms Daily with Meebo Rooms API
When Meebo?s developer platform expanded back in January to include its Meebo Rooms feature, we noted that it would enable existing communities to integrate chat in such a way that their existing use ....... read more
Wed,
28 May 2008
Second Digg Townhall Liveblog Coming to Mashable
Digg is once again ready to do another virtual Townhall meeting with the users of the popular democrat news promotion engine. This time its scheduled for Monday, May 12th at 8 PM EST / 5 PM PST. Ju ....... read more
Wed,
07 May 2008