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
   

Vulnerability in Skype for Windows versions older than 3.6.x.216 - Skype Security Blog

Vulnerability in Skype for Windows versions older than 3.6.x.216

By Villu Arak on December 10, 2007. In early November, Zero Day Initiative informed Skype of a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, provided that the user visits a malicious website.

The flaw exists within the skype4com URI handler component of Skype. An exploitable memory corruption may occur during the parsing of URIs which can result in arbitrary code execution under the user rights of the current Windows account.

The issue was fixed in the public release of Skype 3.6 for Windows. All versions of Skype for Windows updated or installed as of November 15 include the patch.

At Skype, we strive to inform the public of vulnerabilities and malware that may affect Skype software. While this particular vulnerability was fixed, there was an unintentional communication oversight and we failed to bring the case to the public’s attention. All we can do now is to apologize.

Meanwhile, we’d like to advise users to always upgrade to the latest version of Skype. This ensures access to the latest features, improvements and fixes, and helps get the most out of your Skype experience.

Hightouch: Free Wi-Fi from Starbucks!

Hightouch: "Free Wi-Fi coming to a location near you An article by Mike Elgan of Computer World predicts: Starbucks will start rolling out free Wi-Fi access within one year.

He makes the point that people with the newer Wi-Fi devices will demand such services, and that McDonalds is already moving to rollout free Wi-Fi in all its locations in the UK. I think his prediction is right on the money.

Once I got my iPod Touch I completely changed my morning coffee routine to shops offering free Wi-Fi. Starbucks is going to have to go free if they're going to compete. I know of at least one customer they've lost already.

UPDATE: I realized a couple of other things. I've also altered where I eat lunch. The second reason free is important is that the authentication piece on small devices is a pain. We just want to turn them on and join a network. One reason why I don't care for the free Wi-Fi at Panera Bread."

Helge: Which is a great thing. Skype announced mobile phone application. Calling is free from places like Starbucks.

The Next Skype

The next version of Skype will enable people to post a link on a blog or Web site that will take people to a public chat room when clicked on, he said during a question-and-answer session during dinner.

The live chats would be "Skypecasts," which Zennstrom described as public conversations or audio conferences that people can moderate.

He would not provide a timeline for the features except to say it would be "soon."

Meanwhile, Skype has had conversations with many social networking sites about offering services that would allow users to "share content with each other in a conversation," he said.

This information comes Zdnet and it is interesting to see what Skype is going to bring to us in the future. The Web 2.0 congress 2006 is providing some interesting news. Some of the "senior" Web 2.0 companies are already telling what this next generation web is going to provide us.

• The agening of the consumers
• Distance work
• Distance medicine
• It's important to know what the "kids are wanting" (14 - 22)
• New generations are dropping out of Harward
• Bill Gates turned 50 last year
• The babyboomers