Facebook announced that Facebook Chat is now available on Jabber (XMPP) clients – which means you can chat with your Facebook friends from any of your favorite desktop instant messaging client including iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda and more. Jabber (XMPP) is an open messaging protocol supported by most instant messaging software and Facebook is now using the Jabber technology to make Facebook Chat available everywhere. Read full story »

Nimbuzz and Virgin Mobile India have partnered to bring Nimbuzz social networking and chatting to Virgin Mobile’s youth-centric customers. The multibrand WAP chat application in Virgin Mobile is branded as “Vchatter”. Vchatter allows users to access multiple instant messengers from a single login. Read full story »

Digsby is a multiprotocol Instant Messaging client, a social networking tool and an email notification service. Digsby lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one buddy list. You can get alerts of events like new messages and status in your social network. Digsby provides new email notification service and lets you perform actions such as Delete or Report Spam with just one click, without visiting the email website. Read full story »

EQO (pronounced echo), is a mobile application that brings instant messaging, cheap international calling and cheap text messaging to mobile phones. With EQO, you can chat with your IM buddies for free from your mobile phone. Mobile IM with EQO is compatible with all major IM services including MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ and … Read full story »

IMSafer is a web-based service for parents to protect their kids from potentially dangerous interactions by monitoring the online relationships they have through instant messaging and social networking sites. The service is released in October 2006, and the service has improved a lot. Above all, this service is now provided free for everyone.
IMSafer can monitor … Read full story »