Posts Tagged with ‘adium’

I have been playing with the beta release of the new Adium 1.3. I fall more in love with this instant message and chat client every day. It offers more connections to more types of accounts than you'd think to find in one place, and now it has gone one step further and added FaceBook and MySpace functionality.
To be fair, I actually think Adium added MySpace IM functionality an update or two ago, but with so much to offer I [...]

Everyone is all excited this week about “Data Availability.” Well, everyone except for some of the Data Portability folks, that is. MySpace and Twitter are hooking up, while Facebook and Digg are hooking up, and people are throwing confetti in the streets.
Or at least it seems that way.
I know that I'm not the only person who doesn't really WANT these little mash-ups, and the more I've thought about it, the more I've realized I don't want a social graph. And [...]

It seems to be FaceBook's plan to continue expanding as the primary destination for social networking needs. That being the case, they've been missing a few key components that their competitors, like MySpace, already offer. One of these has been a viable instant messaging service.
Recent rumors have surfaced that FaceBook has been working on an instant message solution using the Jabber platform. Not only that, it seems we may see the results of this backstage work as early [...]