FaceBook Chat Now Works With Stand Alone Client, Skype Needs To Catch Up - Profy.Com

Profy New post: FaceBook Chat Now Works With Stand Alone Client, Skype Needs To Catch Up http://tinyurl.com/3hlf7l.

Decided to follow the link from Profy and made a note about some new things. Audium is new to me but I'm not a Mac user.

• Social Instant Messaging
• Video Chat
  

Posted by Leslie Poston on June 13th, 2008: "I'd also like to see them become compatible with Skype. I know that's a tall order, but even partial compatibility would be fantastic, perhaps for chat only, with a script that opens the Skype application if someone invites you to a video chat or calls your Skype number. Anything, really, to help me not have to have a separate window open for Skype would be ideal."

FaceBook Chat Now Works With Stand Alone Client, Skype Needs To Catch Up - Profy.Com: "What about Twitter, Pownce and Jaiku as well while I'm making my giant Adium wish list? I use Twhirl for my Twitter client, and it is fine, but to use Twitter in Adium would be ever so much better. In fact, I can't think of any portable social instant messaging and chat application I wouldn't want to have available in the Adium interface."

1. I use Skype
2. I use Twitter
3. I use Jaiku
4. I use Pownce
5. What is Audium
6. I use Facebook
7. MySpace is sleeping
   

ABC News: Has MySpace Jumped the Shark?

ABC News: Has MySpace Jumped the Shark?: "'Are you on MySpace?'

Helge: I've an MySpace account since 2005 but i don't use it. First I felt it was for young people. Now I forget it and don't have the time.

For those college-age or older, the answer may be increasingly no, coupled with a smirk, a roll of the eyes, and a withering 'No way. MySpace is for sexual predators.' Story MySpace to Further Open to Developers.

Helge: I did drop in the gender (age) gap.

While MySpace has at least twice the traffic and more users than its biggest competitor, Facebook, the younger site is clearly capturing the cachet so crucial to making a social network successful.

Helge: It's still big, yes.

'Facebook is the company to watch, while MySpace is falling off the radar,' Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle told ABCNEWS.com. 'MySpace is increasingly irrelevant. Unless they change that, they'll go the way of Netscape or Friendster or any number of other Web properties.'

Helge: What comes after Facebook. It was the big hit of 2007.

But even if MySpace is no longer the hippest site on the block, according to industry experts, it's not going down without a fight.

Helge: Innovation expected.

Although MySpace launched first, historically, the site has lagged far behind Facebook in innovations. While Facebook opened up its site to developers months ago, MySpace will just begin doing that next week."

Helge: Yes, I agree.

Blogs on Social Media, New Technology Applications, Social Networking and New Website Trends

Blogs on Social Media, New Technology Applications, Social Networking and New Website Trends: "Why did Myspace join Google's OpenSocial? With so much competition and so many new platforms opening everyday, limited resources is the major problem faced by most of the app developers these days.

Helge: There is also the limited time to be allocated by consumers / users of social media. We need to get some standardization. We can't be hopping from one platform to another.

There are ample amount of opportunities but not enough people to pursue them all. But i think MySpace is in itself big enough to require any platform, so why did they join? It all comes down to competition for app developer's time and resources. In the last few months since Facebook opened its own platform, a lot of competitors including MySpace have seen its lead fading.

Helge: We are probably seeing some consolidation in 3 to 5 years time.

Facebook started winning more users day after day, and share more user time, because app developers were adding new features to the Facebook experience much faster than Myspace could do on its own. If Myspace had stayed out of Open Social, there would have been three platforms competing for developer time. By joining, there are now only two and one (Open Social) provides potential access to far more users than the other. More developer time would be spent on Open Social, and MySpace would benefit more from the improved rate of innovation."

Helge: Also competing for user time. Google's gPhone is also an open source platform.