Facebook Chat working on Jabber support
Facebook Chat might’ve had a simple and quiet launch, but a month later, the social network is already announcing plans to upgrade.
Engineer David Reiss announced Tuesday evening on the Facebook Developer Blog that Facebook Chat will soon have an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) interface–that’s better known as Jabber. This will mean that external clients will be able to incorporate Facebook Chat, currently restricted in most cases to the browser.
Universal IM clients Digsby (which is PC-only) and Adium (which is Mac-only) have already worked in ways to support Facebook Chat.
Through Facebook’s official Jabber support, which is coming “in the near future,” Facebook members will be able to not only chat with their friends, but also see friends’ profile pictures through the IM client and set their Facebook statuses.
C2Call:Web Phone(Windows, MAC and Linux)
C2Call lets you make web-based phone calls straight from your browser. It works like web-based email without any software installation. You can talk to anybody on the web free.
It is a java widget that is loaded temporary from the C2Call web page into your browser each time you use C2Call. It works with Windows, MAC and Linux.
If you want to use C2Call, you need to have a handset or microphone and speaker, and your system needs to have Java installed.
C2Call is free. In the future there will be premium services like calling out to phone numbers, call-in forwarding to mobile phones etc. But the C2Call basic service will remain free.
Go to C2Call: www.c2call.com
Instan-t: manage all your IM account
Instan-t allows you add all your instant messaging account under a single Instan-t username, so you don’t have to open multiple IM software. Instan-t supports MSN, AOL, ICQ, Gtalk and Yahoo, and you can even experience a multiperson video chat with your friends on any IM network.
Instan-t messenger has no ads and it’s free to download. There’s also a web version on the website.
You can try it here.
Powerset launches their first product
Powerset is a San Francisco-based company, founded in 2005. Powerset’s goal is to change the way people interact with technology by enabling computers to understand our language. Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language.
Powerset’s first product is a search and discovery experience for Wikipedia, launched in May 2008. Instead of being limited to keywords, Powerset allows you to enter keywords, phrases, or questions. Instead of just showing you a list of blue links, Powerset gives you more accurate search results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, instead of leaving you at the search page, Powerset’s technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to digest and navigate content quickly.
If you’re all about immediate satisfaction, go straight to Powerset.com and start searching. If you aren’t sure where to start, use the query examples at the bottom of the homepage. Powerset is packing a lot of features into this release. To get the most out of your Powerset experience, you can watch our video that highlights some of the key features in Powerset. You might also want to read through some of help text.
News and information via Powerset blog.
SearchIcon: free icons search engine
Searchicon.net is a simple search engine for free icons, images. Just type name in search box and you will get a list of available icons, images which you can use in your project. The website has both English and Chinese version. I am very glad to see such cool useful website from China. Enjoy it.
Type “file”, you will get some ‘file’ icons:
Type “feed”, you will get some RSS icons:
Petpop:online pet community
PetPop.com, an online pet community, is designed by pet lovers, for pet lovers. You can create your pets’ own custom website and share your pets’ home videos and photos. Whether you are looking for other pets just to make friends, or to show off your pet’s best pics, you can find it all here.
PetPop.com has a “PetStar” section, where you can show off your pet’s talents, intelligence, looks and more. In the adoption center, you can find a adoptable pet and give it a new home. In the “PETPOP Heathy” section, pet expert will help you with any health related questions you have for your pet, and will gladly answer them in a timely manner.
Need more information about Petpop? Click here to Petpop.
WebKut:AIR screenshot tool
WebKut is an AIR application that allows you to capture web pages, or parts of them in a very simple way. It provides you 3 capture options: the entire page, the current view, or only a selection. After download and installation, open WebKut, you will the page like the following image.
Enter the website URL you want to cut, select all page, current view, or only a selection, you will get the image you want. The image will be saved to your desktop automatically.
