JBuddy Bot Builder is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed to make developing, testing and deploying interactive Instant Messagin Bots and Text Messaging applications simple and easy.
JBuddy Bot Builder is built on top of the JBuddy Bot Framework and JBuddy SDK.
Jbuddy Bot Builder Features :
* IDE for rapid bot development, testing, and deployment cycles
* WYSIWYG test chat windows for local online and offline testing
* Cross Platform (Windows Vista, XP, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, etc)
* Built on top of the JBuddy Bot Framework 2.0
* Leverages the IM capabilities of the JBuddy SDK 6.1
* Free 3 concurrent chat session license perfect for prototypes and occassional use
Download Jbuddy Bot Builder
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Create Instant Messaging Bots Easily - Jbuddy Bot Builder |
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Multi-protocol IM Client Review : Instan-T |
"Instan-T is a Multi-Client Messenger program integrating Yahoo, WLM, AOL, Google Talk and ICQ Clients. Version 5.0 can be downloaded from the Instan-T website.Continue reading : Instan-T Multi-Client Messenger Review
Install was easy and quick. And registering as a new user was painless enough. My contacts for all the supported clients was simple as well. I don't have ICQ but AOL/ICQ were listed together. I imported AOL/Yahoo/WLM and Google Talk contacts. I was able to show all or only online contacts which was nice, and you can keep them grouped by client or disassociate them. You can also broadcast your cam as your display pic if you choose to do so. There are however only two current skins to choose from. One slightly interesting feature is the notification sounds. They are either on or off, but they are definitely different - I won't ruin the surprise on that one..."
Posted by patndoris @ BigBlueBall Forums
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Instan-T
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How to Open Facebook Chat on Firefox Sidebar |
"Like Google Talk, you can also run the Facebook Chat application from Firefox sidebar.Continue reading : Put Facebook Chat in Firefox Sidebar & Talk from Any Web Page
The advantages are that you need not open your Facebook homepage to see a list of friends that are online and second, you can talk with Facebook friends while reading any web page in Firefox.
firefox-sidebar To run the Facebook chat messenger from Firefox sidebar, press Ctrl+Shift+B to open the Bookmarks Organizer.
Now go to Organize -> New Bookmark and type the following address:
http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
Also tick the check-box the says "Load this bookmark in the sidebar". You may save this under "Bookmarks Toolbar" so you can open Facebook chat window in a single click."
Posted by Amit @ Digital Inspiration
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Facebook, Sidebar
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Official Facebook Chat Now Available |
Continue reading : Facebook Chat: Now We're Talking"This week marks the launch of Facebook Chat—a new way for you to communicate with your friends in real-time. The Wall and Inbox have been the primary ways to communicate, but when more immediacy is necessary—for example when making plans for lunch in half an hour or arguing over a foul call in the NCAA tournament—they might not be enough. Chat aims to fill this gap.
We'll be rolling this out slowly going forward, but fairly soon you'll notice our new Chat bar at the bottom of your browser—no installation or assembly required. From this bar you can view your list of online friends and open conversations with any or all of them..."
Posted @ The Facebook Blog
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Facebook, Facebook Chat
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IM Best Awards 2008 - The Winners |
IM Best Awards 2008 of About.com has been ended. Here are the winners :
1. About the IM Best Awards Survey
2. Best IM Experience - Yahoo! Messenger 9.0
3. Most Improved IM - Digsby
4. Best Mac Instant Messenger - Adium
5. Best Third-Party Instant Messenger - Digsby
6. Best IM Feature - Digsby
7. Developers of the Year - dotSyntax, LLC for Digsby
Read more on About.com
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Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer - Analyse IM Histories |
Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer a tool for forensic professionals that eases their work on analysing Instant Messenger histories. You can easily extract your IM history into text, XML or HTML formats.
Search is supported - simple search by word or phrase and advanced search using file with suspect word or using regular expression which is very useful when searching a various word's forms or phrase with fuzzy structure.
The product can search installed messengers and history files on your computer as well as on mapped network drives (including Encase mapped drives). Thus you will find history files even in case you haven't installed messenger. It is possible to work with several histories at a time.
Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer Features:
· Support for ICQ (all versions from 97a to ICQ6), Microsoft MSN/LiveMessenger, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, MySpace IM, &RQ, Miranda, SIM, QIP and AIM (search history files only)
· Have not found Internet Messenger of interest? Contact us!
· No password required
· Search for installed IMs
· Intellectual search for history files in folders other than default IM history folders. Search can be performed on all computer's drives as well as on mapped network drives (including Encase mapped drives). Thus you will find history files even in case you haven't installed messengers.
· Export extracted history into various formats - text, HTML, XML. You can constrain export by a contacts and dates chosen
· Simple search through history and advanced search using file with a set of words to search. Experienced users can benefit from searching by regular expressions, which are great when searching for templates or phrases with fuzzy structure
· Found results can be exported to the text, HTML and XML file
· The work with multiple opened histories is supported (e.g. you can search through multiple histories)
· You can filter contacts by various criteria (by absence of history, by first letter, by several letters)
Download Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer
Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer Screenshots:
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Belkasoft
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Vote for Your Favorite Instant Messenger on About.com IM Awards |
"In March 2008, we asked our readers to nominate their favorite instant messengers in six categories for our first ever IM Best Awards, a celebration of the best in the IM industry. After an overwhelming response, the nominations have finally been tabulated and the results are in!Continue reading : IM Best Awards 2008 - Vote for Your Favorite Instant Messengers
In addition to a number of veteran instant messengers, this year’s list features many third-party clients, one even sweeping five out of six categories with six total nominations..."
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger
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Facebook Chat Launches |
Continue reading : Facebook Chat Launches, For Some"We’ve received word that Facebook has released its much anticipated chat/IM application to a few unspecified networks. The “pre-launch beta”, as Facebook is calling it, started sometime last night.
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The only thing new that we’ve learned is that Facebook Chat will incorporate mini-feed stories into IM conversations. If you’re chatting with someone and they do something to your profile, like post a message on your wall, you will get a notification into your chat window with them..."
Posted by Mark Hendrickson @ Techcrunh
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Facebook
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Facebook's Instant Messaging Service Coming Soon |
"Facebook has been testing a new instant messaging service and will be launching it to the public soon, perhaps in the next week.Continue reading : Facebook To Launch Instant Messaging Service
Our understanding is that the service will be built into user’s Facebook pages and allow them to web chat with their Facebook friends. We’ve also heard that, like Gtalk, it will be built on the Jabber open source platform, allowing users to add the service to many popular Instant messaging clients like Trillian (Windows) and Adium (Mac). I’d also expect web chat services like Meebo and eBuddy to add support for the service..."
Posted by Michael Arrington @ Techcrunch
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Facebook
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Baidu Hi - A new IM Client Announced from China's Top Search Engine |
"China's top search engine, Baidu, announced plans to launch their own instant messenger (IM) called "Baidu Hi."Continue reading : Baidu Announces Plans for IM in China
Research and development for Baidu Hi has been underway for almost one year. Baidu is currently in the process of recruiting additional personnel for the team dedicated to developing the product. All elements of Baidu Hi, including product design, research and testing, will be handled independently by Baidu. Internal testing for this product is currently underway..."
Posted by Jeff @ BigBlueBall Forums
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Search Engine, Baidu Hi, Baidu
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USB Flexible Mini WebCam for IM |
Brando's USB Mini Web Cam is designed for notebooks. You can bring it everywhere as it is portable. It has a flexible neck that can be aimed in any direction depending on what you want the person on the other end of the conversation to see.
USB Mini WebCam doesn't require any drivers to be installed when used under Windows XP/Vista and it's compatible with ICQ, WLM, Skype and other IM clients.
USB Mini WebCam Features:
# Lens rotation for adjusting clear image
# Video Conferencing
# Workable on ICQ, MSN, Skype, etc
# Plug and play
# USB Interface
# Fully support USB 1.0 and 2.0
# Drive free for Windows XP and Vista
# Size: 203 x 145 x 56mm (approx.)
# Weight: 49g
System Requirements:
# Windows XP SP2/Vista
# Pentium 450 MHz equivalent or above 256MB RAM
Buy USB Mini WebCam from Brando
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Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, WebCam, WebCam, Brando
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Create Clickable Links on your Instant Messaging Client |
"Being self-employed, I rely on the internet to bring clients to me. When they do find me, I want to make it as easy as possible for them to contact me. One way to do that is to insert hyperlinks to my chat ID’s.Continue reading : How To Create Instant Messaging Hyperlinks
A hyperlink is just a link that a person can click on that will instantly open the correct chat window with the person’s chat ID already in place.
The benefits - less clicking for the other person, less emails asking for my chat ID. They can just click on the relevant chat link and begin typing an instant message to me..."
Posted by Mark O'Neill @ makeusof
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger
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Find New Friends on AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Skype and Paltalk - BuddyFetch |
BuddyFetch is a search engine that lets people to search for fellow IM, social networking, and Internet dating users. BuddyFetch allows you searche through multiple providers : AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Skype, Paltalk, Myspace, OKCupid, IMVU, HOT or NOT, NETLOG, Tagged, Black Planet, MocoSpace, WAYN, Zwinky, eSPIN-the-Bottle, YouTube, Hi-5, Stumble Upon, Book Of Matches, Plenty of Fish, LavaPlace, Consummating, and Facebook.
BuddyFetch was created because there was no central directory that allowed searches for IM/Social Networking/Dating users across multiple providers, in conjunction with the fact that some directories would only allow you to search for screen names of IM users that were presently online.
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, BuddyFetch, Buddy Fetch
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Which Instant Messaging Client to Choose ? |
"Here we rate the 5 most popular instant messenger applications, (AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, and Skype) in 6 categories: Instant Messaging, Voip Calling, Extra Features, User Interface, Memory Usage, and Ease of Removal, and give you a totally objective review!Continue reading : The Ultimate Instant Messenger Shootout
We had 3 users of different computer knowledge levels rate each application.
Admin: Using a Logitech USB Headset 250 on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.1Ghz processor with 2GBs DDR2-800 RAM. Internet speeds are 3.0 Mb/s download and 768 Kb/s upload. Expert PC user.
Digit: Using a Philips SBC HN110 noise-canceling headset on an AMD Turion 64 X2 CPU @ 1.8Ghz/core and 1GB of DDR-667 RAM. Internet speed is 7 Mb/s down, 512 Kb/s up. Expert PC user.
GirlG33k: Using a Pentium III 500 MHz processor with 512 MBs of RAM. Internet speeds are 3.0 Mb/s download and 768 Kb/s upload. Above average PC user.
Here’s what each had to say:"
Posted @ The Tech Turf
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Social Networking is Safer Than Instant Messaging For Children |
"While social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook have been singled out as places where teens could face sexual harassment, most of the unwanted solicitation actually happens in chat rooms and via instant messaging, a new study finds.Continue reading : Social Networking Sites Safer Than IM or Chat Rooms
Even there, only 15 percent of children experience unwanted sexual solicitation and only a third report being harassed online, according to a new study in the February issue ofPediatrics..."
Posted By Steven Reinberg @ Washington Post
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Social Network, Social Networking, Social Networks, Facebook, MySpace, Orkut
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Gizmo Now Supports MySpaceIM |
"When Michael profiled the Gizmo Project in July 2005, he noted that it had more features than Skype, but lacked instant messaging. The one time Skype competitor has become the Jaiku to Twitter, having pretty much dropped off the radar as Skype was acquired by eBay and went on to become the leading desktop VOIP/ IM solution.Continue reading : Gizmo Gets MySpace IM Support, More IM Platform Than Skype These Days
The open source SIPphone owned Gizmo has continued to be developed, and this week added MySpace IM support on top of support for MSN, Yahoo, AIM and Jabber (including Google Talk). Today’s Gizmo is more IM platform than predominantly VOIP platform, and it makes for a fairly decent product..."
Posted by Duncan Riley @ Techcrunch
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, MySpaceIM, MySpace IM, Gizmo, Skype
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Interview With Webcams |
"Phone interviews allow for possible deception, but the growing use of Webcams by schools is making it more difficult to use a stand-in.Continue reading : Webcam Interviews Disconnect Imposters
Who's really on the other end of the line during a phone interview? It could be the student on the MBA application—or a well-spoken cheater.
It used to be that business school officials couldn't necessarily tell one from the other. But now, with the widespread use of Webcams, one avenue for potential cheating—including coaching or having an imposter sit in for the applicant—is being narrowed..."
Posted by Alina Dizik @ Businessweek
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Webcam
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Mobile IM Will Displace %13 of SMS Traffic by 2013 |
"Mobile instant messaging (IM) adoption in Europe will grow from 8 percent (26.7 million subscribers) in 2007 to 24 percent (80 million subscribers) by 2013, according to a new study by Forrester Research. Forrester's mobile IM forecast is based on a survey of 22,000 consumers across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.Continue reading : Mobile IM Use in Europe Tripling in Six Years
Three years after the first mobile IM service launched, Forrester believes operators still lack a true commitment to backing the technology because of fears that mobile IM will cannibalize revenue from their highly profitable text messaging services (SMS). But mobile IM's growth is inevitable and operators' fears of revenue erosion are greatly overstated according to Forrester Research Analyst Niek van Veen..."
Posted by Jeff @ BigBlueBall Forums
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Chat Rooms Application for Facebook |
Chat Rooms Application allows you add a block to your profile that allows visitors to chat among each other in real time (automatically updates). You can also launch private messaging conversations with friends
Chat Rooms launches a real-time conversation (similar to MSN Messenger / Yahoo Messenger / IRC / Google Talk / Skype) on Facebook so that after each message is sent it almost immediately appears on the screen of everyone in the conversation.
Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Chat, Facebook
