Posts Tagged with ‘AIM’

I have bumped into a post by Mark Krynsky today titled "AOL launches buddyupdates Lifestreaming Service and Nobody Notices". Since I am far from a heavy AIM user myself (I only have 2 contacts and one of them actually forced me to get another IM protocol when I clearly felt I did not need one), I had not been aware of the buddyupdates existence neither so it was interesting to check it out, especially because it was [...]

You have the most successful touchscreen handset on the market, your brand image could sell contacts to the blind, and guess what?  You are largely responsible for a roadblock in the advancement of mobile social networking.  What I'm referring to is the fact that new iPhone applications are not allowed to run continuously as a background processes. 
Of course, I doubt Apple or its head man Steve Jobs directly intend to inhibit the advancement of mobile social media by [...]

For all my harping on cellular providers' ho-hum attempts to deliver quality mobile social content, I like to think I'm holding out for the real goods.  From what I can tell, Fring might just be the at the head of the mobile social platform pack. 
Fring is a free mobile platform that allows users to access social communities like Skype, MSN Messenger, GTalk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM on the go via cellular devices.  For most of those [...]

Let me begin by saying I am all for the advancement of social networking, web 2.0, and all the rest. In fact, I fervently support such advances that I find myself writing about everything and everything to do with said topics on a frequent basis. But I think I missed or misunderstood something: shouldn't social media platforms inherently be open to as many users as possible, not limited by issues like users' choices in operating systems?
On this lovely Sunday afternoon, [...]

The more that I've been following the development of Web operating systems, the more I've come to realize that the concept shouldn't really be that difficult. For a Web OS to be successful, there are only a few simple things it really needs to have. It needs to have a slick and attractive interface, especially for those of us spoiled by Mac OS X. It needs to be able to store all types of files. It needs to have a [...]

IMO.im , which happens to be founded and advised by several ex-Googlers, is a web based instant messaging that allows users to instant message other friends on AIM, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, and Yahoo Messenger. Users who happen to be registered with more than one of these free IM services have the innovative ability to link these accounts through IMO.im, so that logging into this service then logs them into all of their clients simultaneously.
Even better than the single login [...]

Until today, I had heard nothing about an instant messaging client for Facebook being in the works. But, apparently that may be the case.
In news that is not just new to me, Sam Sethi of blognation UK has stated today that he has “just been given a sneek preview of a new Facebook IM client that is going into beta this Friday.”
If this is true, is it really created by Facebook developers (as opposed to being a third party [...]

RadiusIM isn’t just another site where you can combine all of your IM accounts at one time. What makes it special is its inclusion of maps, letting you know who is close by of the people you’re chatting with, including other users of radiusIM. In this way, you can make new friends based on your location, or other locations you search for. Another nice thing is that it is completely web based, so there’s no downloading necessary, and you can check [...]

Yahoo! is making available a new version of IM that runs in a browser rather than having users download separate software. Yahoo hopes to cater to the millions of people who access the Internet via cafes rather than home based PC's around the planet.
According to this news from Yahoo, the eventual ability to allow rapid fire text communication ala MySpace, Facebook and others will help the company transform into more of a social networking type platform. Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's VP of communication [...]