Posts tagged facebook

2008-06-13

Gab your life away on Facebook and Google Chat with Gabtastik

GabtastikFacebook has put out their chat service, Google has Google chat. There’s no desktop app for Facebook, but there is one for Google chat.

Confusing, and annoying. It’s also confusing and annoying to have to use those services in separate programs or multiple tabs in a web browser.

AIM is probably the most popular IM service known to man and woman, iChat for Mac…these are both desktop experiences.

Enter Gabtastik.

For Windows XP and Mac OS X, Gabtastik wants to take your browser chatting to the desktop where a lot us feels that…

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2008-05-13

Google Friend Connect: a social network for every site

On Monday night, Google launched its entry into the growing field of programs that attempt to share your “social graph” — your collection of friends and relationships — across many social networks. The program is called Friend Connect, and it’s starting with a handful of sites, including Facebook, Plaxo and Hi5. Friend Connect is also going to support applications under OpenSocial, Google’s social network application platform that has been around since last November.

For the average web user, Friend Connect means you’re going to see social data cropping up on a…

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