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Chill Lets Users Chat With Others While Watching Hulu

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:55:35 +0000

Chill.com is making the TV viewing experience more social than ever, letting users watch television shows, live events and music videos with friends. They’re running the latest Hulu episodes of popular shows like Dancing with the Stars, House, Law & Order and more on a schedule and viewers can tune in to watch their favorite shows with their friends and people from all over the world (at least in places where Hulu is available).
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How To Design & Install Chat On Your Facebook Page, Tumblr, And Beyond

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:00:28 +0000

RumbleTalk wants to help you make your website, blog or Facebook page more social with the addition of chat. Earlier this week they launched a brand new chat widget that you can customize and embed on pretty much any website, including Tumblr, Facebook, Wix, Blogger, TypePad, Squarespace and more.
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Infographic Explores Who’s Using Video Chat And How They’re Using It

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:30:26 +0000

How do you use video chat? Do you use it to talk to friends and family? To play games? Watch movies? Keep your long-distance relationship afloat? A new infographic from video chat app Rounds, The Video Connection, explores the ways in which we use video chat, as well as the demographics of those who are chatting.
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Messenger Plus! Add-On Turns Live Messenger Into A Social Community

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:00:10 +0000

Ever wished you could talk about last night’s game with other die-hard sports fans, or find other video gamers to compete against outside of your own circle of friends? The latest version of Messenger Plus!, a popular add-on for Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger), is letting you do just that. They’ve gone social, opening up the Messenger Plus! community, a community of over 60 million users, so that you can meet and socialize with other users who share your interests, regardless of whether they are on your contact list.
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Pick Or Skip: Like Chatroulette Without All The Pervs

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:00:04 +0000

It has been just over a year since Chatroulette rose to popularity and subsequently fell out of the limelight because of the, well…lack of pants. Pick or Skip, a new New York/Paris-based startup, is cleaning up random video chat and providing users with a safe and fun environment to connect to people with similar interests and chat, sans perverts.

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Israeli Chat Startup Lets You Ask The World A Question

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:00:30 +0000

Have you ever wished you had someone to give you relationship advice right now, wanted to talk about politics or current events with people living in different parts of the world, or had a new joke that you just couldn’t wait to tell? Israeli startup AnybodyOutThere has created a new platform that lets you shout out a question, comment or topic to the community and helps you find other people who want to chat with you about that topic right on the spot. continued…

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Bebo Launches bChat: Matching Up Randoms For Video Chat

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:30:46 +0000

Social network Bebo has just launched a new video chat service called bChat, powered by vChatter, to enhance user experience by matching up its 117 million global members for random chat. Think of it as a cleaner, safer version of Chatroulette that matches up and introduces Bebo users based on a variety of preferences including geography, age and interests.
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Make the Entire Web Your Social Network With Googlin… Yes, I Said Googlin

Lauren Dugan — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:58:14 +0000

500 million of us have a Facebook profile, but what if the socializing there could be expanded to the entire web? The creators of Googlin, a social web surfing application, are hoping that an immersive social web experience – from CNN’s homepage to your Google searches – is the next generation. With Googlin, you create an avatar and use it to represent yourself on the webpages you visit, interacting with others who are on that same page, at the same time.
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5 Fun New Ways To Watch YouTube With Your Friends

Megan O'Neill — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:15:13 +0000

Watching videos online is fun, but watching them with your friends is even better. We’ve put together a list of five sites and applications that you can use to watch all your favorite videos with your friends online, and you don’t have to be in the same room or even the same country!
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Chatroulette Makes Its Not So Triumphant Return With Version 2

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:30:41 +0000

Well folks, Chatroulette is back after a long week of down time! Those of you who have been patiently (or impatiently) waiting to find out what the new site would bring, you can now sleep sound knowing that the video chat site is back and, if anything, has been downgraded. That’s right, Chatroulette V.2 is basically a streamlined version of the original site that adds nothing new except for a confusing interface and technical difficulties.
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Is The Future Of Chatroulette Chat-Free?

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:40:37 +0000

Chatroulette has recently been stepping things up in order to secure their spot in the ranks of popular social websites, adding new features and giving the site a facelift. But is the next step in the revamping of Chatroulette doing away with the chat? Chatroulette’s founder, Andrey Ternowsky, told NewTeeVee that the future of the site might focus entirely on telepresence and do away with text chat completely.
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Worlize Is a New Social Network Where Users Make The Games

Azam Khan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:30:50 +0000

User-generated social game and chat platform provider Worlize has launched the beta version of its software on major social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and OpenSocial. In a nutshell, the platform allows users to interact with each other in fun, 2D environments as well as play user-created games with each other. The Los Angeles based company also announced securing $150,000 in angel funding that it will use to continue building out the product and hire talent. Public launch of the platform is not due out until fall but players can still sign up to try out the public beta release.

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ICQ Is Back And It Uses Facebook and Twitter

Neil Vidyarthi — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:44:08 +0000

Do you remember ICQ (“I Seek You”)? It was one of the first desktop download chat applications and was sold to AOL for $400 million in 1998. Strangely, it fell off the map after the acquisition, but has since resurfaced as a type of community-based social network that leverages Facebook and Twitter. We take a look below.
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BigPoint, Vivox Games Announces Voice Chat on Social Games

Neil Vidyarthi — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:39:53 +0000

In a first for the social gaming scene, BigPoint is announcing that they will be partnering with Vivox to release Voice Chat over their suite of social games at bigpoint.com. This comes only a week after Vivox raised $7 million from IDG Ventures, and their statement that “Voice is an essential part of the explosive growth of the social web.” BigPoint games is a massive gaming community, boasting over 100,000,000 registered users and a wide variety of games across many genres.
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5 Facebook Chat Desktop Clients For Mac And Windows

marisdagis — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:49:26 +0000

Facebook with more than 400 million users is largest social network out there and with Facebook Chat, also one of the main players in IM market. Many people don’s see a reason why use other instant messengers while all their friends and colleagues are over at Facebook.

Although Facebook Chat is very popular, web interface lacks many features you would like to see on your IM client, that’s why we provide you with best and full function Facebook Chat desktop clients for Windows and Mac platforms.

Digsby

Digsby is very powerful client that knows the “language” of many popular social networks and email services. I will name just largest platforms: Facebook Chat, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Talk, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Gmail, Yahoo mail, AOL/AIM Mail and others. It can really become your only software to update all your networks, check email and chat with buddies. Digsby is available for Windows – Mac and Linux versions coming soon (Thanks Mihnea!).

Check out this video to see main features and how it all works:

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