You can now type anything into MSNs text input field and when you press send/enter, it will update that message on your Twitter account.

Features:

• Use twitter on your MSN messenger.
• Receive updates from people you are following.
• Use commands, such as @reply, D for direct message,follow/unfollow people… etc.
• Supports TwitPic, TwitterKeys, bit.ly/ j.mp, and more.
• Works for MSN clients, such as Digspy, Meeb… etc.
• Use Twitter even if your can not access Twitter service at your country or region.

Visit: TwitOnMSN @ www.twitonmsn.com

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• Mail2.im: Forward Important Emails to IM, Mobile or Twitter
• IM-History : Store Your Chat History Online
• Heysan: Chat with Friends Online from Mobile Phone
• Fring : Free Mobile Calling and Chat
• Dexrex: Store AIM, GTalk, MSN, Yahoo, Skype Chat History Online

Using the site is very easy, all you need to do is go to the website and click on the “Find Stranger” button. Head-To-Head will then look for a random stranger and connect you. If for some reason you don’t like the person you may hit on “Disconnect” button and connect with someone else.

Features:

• Have video conversation with random person online.
• Chat with as many people as you like.
• Audio and video can be easily turned off.
• No sign up, simple to use.

Check out Head-To-Head @ www.head-to-head.org

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• Conference.io: Collaborative File Sharing with Live Chat
• TinyChat: Online Chat Rooms Without Registering
• Talkinator: Free Live Chat Rooms To Add To Your Website
• Switchboard : Browser-to-Browser Internet Phone
• PalBee : Free Online Video Conference and Chat

Note: While OnlyChat can be a fun way to kill some time keep in mind that you can meet anyone in such chat rooms. Make sure you never disclose your personal information to people you chat with.

Features:

• One-to-one chat with random strangers.
• No registration needed and completely anonymous.
• Free and simple to use.
• Similar site: Omegle.

Check out OnlyChat @ www.onlychat.com

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• TinyChat: Online Chat Rooms Without Registering
• Talkinator: Free Live Chat Rooms To Add To Your Website
• Omegle: Chat With Strangers
• Olark: Simple Live Chat Widget for Your Website
• Head-To-Head: Video Chat With Random Person Online

Adding Olark to your site is a 4 step process. Enter your site address, choose a color theme for the chat window, choose an olark nickname and password (or add your existing IM account details) and finally get the link as well as the embed code for the chat box to put on your site.

Although Olark has various price plans starting from $5 per month to $149 per month, there is also a free plan which website owners can make use of.

Features:

• Live website chat widget.
• Quickly embed the widget. No need to download extra software.
• Use your existing IM client like Gtalk etc to chat.
• Use the app from your iPhone or Blackberry.
• Both free and paid plans available.
• Similar tools: Talkinator, TinyChat, ChatMaker, Chatzy and Stinto.

Check out Olark @ www.olark.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Talkinator: Free Live Chat Rooms To Add To Your Website
• 99Chats: Embeddable Chat Boxes For Your Website
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons

You can also modify chatroom settings like its size (width, height), color, filter for offensive words, timestamps, text font size and even add a password (optional) to make it available to members only.

Check out sample chatroom below:

Features:

• Free chat rooms for websites.
• Just get the code and embed online.
• Adjust chat room settings: width and height, color, badword filter, timestamps and font size.
• Make your chat rooms public or for members only.
• Create unlimited chat rooms.
• No sign up needed.
• Similar tools: TinyChat, Conference.io, ChatMaker, Chatzy and Stinto.

Check out Talkinator @ www.talkinator.com

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• Olark: Simple Live Chat Widget for Your Website
• 99Chats: Embeddable Chat Boxes For Your Website
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WagWire: Enable your Visitors to Leave you Audio Comments
• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons

The service, as they claim, is supported by a reliable system specially developed for providing users a consistent and efficient communication service.

Features:

• Receive calls on Skype from the landline phone for free.
• Sign up, get an online phone number and a private extension and answer calls from your Skype.
• Provides numbers in more than 40 countries.
• Supported by a reliable communication system.

Check out Ring2Skype @ www.ring2skype.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Fring : Free Mobile Calling and Chat
• ViaTalkFree : Free Calls within US and Canada
• TruPhone: Make Free or Low-cost International Calls from Mobile
• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling
• PokeTalk: Free International Calling To 50+ Countries

No sign up or installation required. Invite friends by sharing the special URL for your chat via email, Twitter, or Facebook. All translations are powered by Google Translator.

Features :

• Real time chat translation service.
• Receive messages in any language you want.
• Removes language barrier. Talk to anyone who doesn’t know your language.
• No sign up or installation required.
• Invite friends by sharing your chat URL.
• Similar tool: MeGlobe.

Check out Babelwith.me @ www.babelwith.me (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• MeGlobe : Instant Messaging with Instant Translation
• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile
• Woxikon: Online Dictionary And Translation
• What Language is This: Online Language Identifier
• WeBuzz.im: Online Multi Client IM Service

Getting started is really easy, once you have registered on the site click on the “Meet” to create your meeting session. Then grab the provided URL and use it to invite other memebers of the team.

Demo video:

Features:

• Real-time web meeting and group collaboration online.
• Users can communicate using audio, video and text messages.
• Share documents, files and images.
• Draw diagrams and enter text.
• Drag and drop interface.
• Desktop sharing also available.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out AlmostMeet @ www.almostmeet.com

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• Mikogo : Screen Sharing App for Skype and Windows
• YuuGuu : Free Desktop Sharing Software
• WiseMapping: Online MindMapping Tool
• Top Picks: Coolest Brainstorming Applications (makeuseof.com)
• Thinkature : Real-time Collaboration Dashboard

Users may also customize their accounts by adding friends, post status messages, and upload shows. Each show can have up to 100 images or videos and can be set either to a private mode or made public (shared with a group of selected users).

Note: This service is currently under private beta, but if you would like to start using the site today, we have invites for the first 200 people. Sign up here.

Features:

• View photos and watch videos together online.
• Real-time video, voice and text chat included.
• Content viewing without the interruption (no skipping or buffering).
• Another similar website is SeeToo.

Check out Watchittoo @ www.watchitoo.com (by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas )

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• PicaMatic: Easy Online Photo Album Maker
• YouGotPhoto: Easily Add Online Images To Digital Photo Frames
• Troovi: Simple and Quick Photo Sharing Tool
• thisMoment: Combine Your Photos & Videos from Various Networks
• SeeToo: Watch Movies Together with Friends Online

After the fax been sent MyFax sends sender an email message stating whether the fax was successfully delievered or failed. When the fax delivery is failed MyFax attempts to resend the fax up to three more times.

Features:

• Send free fax by internet to 41 countries including US, Canada, most of Europe, China, Japan, and South Korea.
• Send 2 free faxes per day, each up to 9 pages long.
• There is a 10 MB file size limit per fax.
• Supports 178 file formats.
• No sign up needed.

Other sites to send free fax via internet are GotFreeFax, TPC, FaxZero and eFaxFree.

Check out MyFax @ www.myfax.com/free

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• TPC: Send A Fax From A Computer For Free
• Qipit : Capture and Share Docs Using Mobile
• Zamzar
• YouConvertIt : Online File and Unit Converter
• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile

Chats are disposable and anonymous: it doesn’t keep any chat history, asks for any usernames, or requires the person to contacts. And since it’s a two-way conference, only two people can chat at the same time. The chat session always launched in a separate browser window.

Features:

• Free, instant, anonymous two-way instant video messaging.
• No software or plugins to install.
• The chat room launched under temporary URL.
• Similar websites: Fonomo, Confabio, ooVoo, Ekkotv and Uniqq.

Check out BoostCam @ www.boostcam.com (via Orangeinks)

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• Fonomo: Easy Online Video Conferencing App
• Confabio : Instant Web Video Conference Rooms
• Yugma: Make Conference Calls & Collaborate With Others Online
• Voxli: Group Voice Chatting Made Really Simple
• Voicethread: Create Powerful Multimedia Slideshows

If for some some reason you don’t like the person you are talking to there is an option to disconnect yourself from the chat session and get connected with another random user.

Features:

• Talk to strangers and meet new people online in a simple online chat.
• Instantly start chatting with a random user.
• Anonymous, no registration or choosing chatrooms.

Check out Omegle @ www.omegle.com

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• TinyChat: Online Chat Rooms Without Registering
• Talkinator: Free Live Chat Rooms To Add To Your Website
• OnlyChat: Chat With Random People Online
• Olark: Simple Live Chat Widget for Your Website
• Head-To-Head: Video Chat With Random Person Online

To start, simply register on the site, create a room, grab its URL and use it to invite others. You can create as many rooms as you like, each room can last only 24 hours and then gets deleted.

Features:

• Host video conference with up to 24 people at once.
• Create and host as many online conferences as you like.
• Each conference room lasts for 24 hour and then gets terminated.
• Easy to use and free.
• For more tools see conference section.

Check out Meeting24.tv @ www.meeting24.tv (via Techcrunch)

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• Yugma: Make Conference Calls & Collaborate With Others Online
• Voxli: Group Voice Chatting Made Really Simple
• Voicethread: Create Powerful Multimedia Slideshows
• Thinkature : Real-time Collaboration Dashboard
• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling

All that user has to do is quickly install browser client and then assign a hot key which he presses whenever he wants to speak. (the hot key works regardless of which application is open).

The application allows 200 people per chat room and there is no limit on the number of chat rooms created (each room can be assigned separate hot key).

Features:

• Free online group voice chat for gamers and groups.
• Allows 200 people per chat room.
• No limit on the number of rooms.
• Invite others by forwarding a URL, (URL can also be customized).
• Requires quick installation of browser add-on.
• Voxli works on IE and Firefox (both Mac and Windows) support for other browsers is on the way.
• No registration and free for all group sizes during open beta.

Check out Voxli @ www.voxli.com (via TechCrunch)

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• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling
• Switchboard : Browser-to-Browser Internet Phone
• PermaTime: Easily Schedule Meeting Time Across Time Zones
• Foonz : Free Group Calls
• EasyTZ: Conference Call Scheduler with Time Zone Conversion

Features:

• Quick and easy video conferencing free.
• Create as many room s as you like.
• No registration and no download.
• Invite others by forwarding a URL or giving them room ID number.
• Similar sites: ooVoo, Ekkotv and Uniqq

Check out Fonomo @ www.fonomo.com

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• Switchboard : Browser-to-Browser Internet Phone
• PalBee : Free Online Video Conference and Chat
• ooVoo : Free Video Conferencing
• MeBeam: Online Video Conferencing
• Imo.im : Text and Video Chat with your IM Buddies Online

Additionally TinyChat provides you with an option to embed your chat rooms onto your website, and you also have an option to save and download your chatlog information.

Features:

• No registration online chat room.
• Send chat link to friends to join your chat room.
• Create as many rooms as you want.
• Sign in with your Twitter login (optional).
• Save chatlog.
• Add chat to website.
• Similar websites: ChatMaker, Chatzy and Stinto.

Check out TinyChat @ www.tinychat.com

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• Talkinator: Free Live Chat Rooms To Add To Your Website
• OnlyChat: Chat With Random People Online
• Omegle: Chat With Strangers
• Olark: Simple Live Chat Widget for Your Website
• Head-To-Head: Video Chat With Random Person Online

All it takes is to signup, add your instant messaging ID, email, mobile number and Twitter details. Then Mail2.im provides you with a new email address that you can give out to others. When someone sends an email to that address Mail2.im first attempts to deliver it to your instant messaging program. If you’re not online, it forwards the message to your email, mobile phone and Twitter account.

One great way to benefit from this app would be to configure your primary email account (ex. Gmail) to auto-forward emails from important contacts to the email address you get from Mail2.im. This way you you can still give out your main email address to contacts and get their messages on your IM, Twitter and mobile phone.

Features:

• Forward incoming emails to your IM, Mobile Phone or Twitter.
• Supported IM services: AIM, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger.
• Forwarding messages to mobile is free for US and few other countries.
• Easily add and remove accounts to where messages are forwarded.

Check out Mail2.im @ www.mail2.im

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• TwitterMail : Post To Twitter Via Email
• TwitOnMSN: Use Twitter On MSN
• Kissa.be: Shorten Long Links & Protect ‘mailto’ Links
• Chir.ps: Record Yourself & Share It On Twitter
• Chatterous : Reach your Friends Everywhere (IM, eMail and Mobile)

How does it work?

1. Login using your IM account details.

2. Customize  your online status and set automatic answer text and notifications.

3. Exit! Your account will stay online and automatically answer with your text.

Features:

• Keep your IM status online and set auto answering messages.
• Supports: MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk.
• Customize your IM status.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out Answer.im @ www.answer.im

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• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile
• WeBuzz.im: Online Multi Client IM Service
• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program
• TokBox: Add Video Chat to Your Blog or Profile
• Switchboard : Browser-to-Browser Internet Phone

Creating embeddable chat box is really simple and takes only a couple of minutes including the registration. You can generate as many chat boxes as you like and easily manage them all from one online account.

Features

• Create and embed chat boxes onto your website or blog.
• Create as many embeddable chat boxes as needed.
• Customize chat color and size.
• Controls for changing user status and text.
• Manage all your chat boxes from one place.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out sample chat below:

Check out 99Chats @ www.99chats.com

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• VisitorContact: Create Custom Contact Forms and Buttons
• Talkinator: Free Live Chat Rooms To Add To Your Website
• Olark: Simple Live Chat Widget for Your Website
• EmailMeForm: Get Custom Contact Form For Your Site
• AudioPal: Record Audio Alerts for Your Website

Features:

• All in one multi-client instant messaging service.
• Currently supports Gtalk, MSN, AIM and Yahoo!Messenger.
• No installation and no registration.
• Also see: Meebo, Imo.im and previously covered Multi Protocol Instant Messaging Clients.

Check out WeBuzz.im @ www.webuzz.im

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• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile
• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program
• TokBox: Add Video Chat to Your Blog or Profile
• Switchboard : Browser-to-Browser Internet Phone
• MeGlobe : Instant Messaging with Instant Translation

Features:

• Make free calls to America and Canada.
• Make calls to mobile and land lines.
• Make as many calls as you like.
• Creating account lets you make 15 minute long call.
• Calls without registration only 2 minutes long.
• For more similar websites see MakeUseOf free calling category.

Check out CallingAmerica @ www.callingamerica.com

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• dukaDIAL: Make Free Landline Calls within US and Canada
• YardSaleTreasureMap: Yard Sale Locator
• Woot: One Deal a Day
• Voyij: Best Travel Offers and Deals For Any Destination
• ViaTalkFree : Free Calls within US and Canada

Features:

• Compare and find the cheapest international calling rates.
• Clean and clutter free interface.
• No registration needed.
• Similar website: MyVoipProvider

Check out Cheapest-Voip @ www.cheapest-voip.com

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• MyVoipProvider: Compare VoIP Calling Rates
• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile
• WikiMatrix: Compare Wiki Platforms
• Waitable: Price Watcher and Comparison Tool in one
• Voxli: Group Voice Chatting Made Really Simple

Stinto also provides you with an option to download chat message history to your computer. Might be handy if you need to refer to the conversation later.

Features:

• Create disposable chat rooms and invite others to join.
• Option to lock the chat room so that no new user can enter the chat.
• Download chat history on to your computer.
• No sign up needed to create or join the chat room.
• Similar tools: Chatzy and ChatMaker.

Check out Stinto @ www.stinto.net

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• ChatMaker: One-click Disposable Chatroom
• BigString: Virtual Instant Messenger and eMail Shredder
• Yeigo: VoIP and Instant Messaging for Your Mobile
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• WhiteNoise: Relax & Listen to White Noise on iPhone

Features:

• Quickly create online video chat room and invite someone to join.
• Create as many rooms as you like.
• Text chat window provided as well.
• Option to set volume on/off.
• No sign up or registration needed.
• Similar website: Ekkotv

Visit Ubiqq @ www.ubiqq.com

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• WeBuzz.im: Online Multi Client IM Service
• WatchItToo: View Photos & Watch Videos Together
• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program
• TokBox: Add Video Chat to Your Blog or Profile

Dimdim easy to use, works on any computer and you can sign up and start using it right away. There are also video demos showing Dimdim in action and its features.

Features

• Free and easy to use
• No Install to Start/Join meetings
• Easily Share your Desktop
• Audio & Video Conferencing
• Present PowerPoint and PDFs to participants
• Private & Public Chat
• Whiteboard & Annotations
• Record and Playback Meetings at any time
• Open Source and APIs

Check out Dimdim @ www.dimdim.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Mikogo : Screen Sharing App for Skype and Windows
• SlideShare: Share Powerpoint Presentations Online
• Slidelive : Share Powerpoint Presentations Live
• ZohoShow
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software

The only thing is that your calls are limited to certain length. The free call duration varies depending on the call destination and line provider. The maximum free call allowance for some countries can go up to 5 minutes per call and 2 calls per day.

When it comes to calling you don’t have to download or install anything, simply dial the country code and the number where you want to call.

Features:

• Make free short calls to any landline or mobile worldwide.
• Duration of free call depends on location and the line provider.
• See free call destination list and the amount of free minutes here.
• No sign up or registration needed.

Similar websites that we have profiled earlier:

• ViaTalkFree – free calls within US and Canada
• FlashPhone – free VoIP calls from browser
• TruPhone – free or low-cost international calls from mobile
• dukaDIAL – free landline calls within US and Canada

Check out EvaPhone @ www.evaphone.com

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• ViaTalkFree : Free Calls within US and Canada
• TruPhone: Make Free or Low-cost International Calls from Mobile
• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling
• Ring2Skype: Receive Calls On Skype From Landline For Free
• PokeTalk: Free International Calling To 50+ Countries

Chatzy also gives an option to setup a more advanced chat room that offers additional features like password protection, admin controls etc.

The process is simple, click the type of the room you want to create and then send out email invitations to as many people as you like. Wait for others to join your room.

Features:

• Instantly create private chat rooms and chat with anyone.
• Create virtual chat rooms with more features (password protection, etc.)
• Use Chatzy virtual chat room as a free chat solution for your website.
• Create as many rooms as you like.
• Registration is not required, though registered members have more priviledges.

Check out Chatzy @ www.chatzy.com

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• WatchItToo: View Photos & Watch Videos Together
• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program
• Uniqq : Video Chat in Your Browser

The current 3 scenarios are ‘ The Annoying eBay Buyer ‘, ‘ You’re on Air! ‘ and ‘ Yeah, Who’s This Then? ‘. An easy-to-use prank call making tool !

The site has tried to avoid its potential misuse by allowing to play only pre-recorded clips during a call and also by blocking the phone number for 21 days, once a prank call is made to it, so that the person on the other side isn’t tricked again by someone else through this site for a long period of time.

Check out Hoaxcall @ www.hoaxcall.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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You could then search for other buddystumblers and make friends with them. Once you are friends, you could start an online chat in any of the above mentioned IM networks. So basically it lets you find other people in your IM network, get in touch with them and start chatting.

Buddystumbler gives you many options for search. You can find new people by typing their usernames, interests, gender or location. Once you search and find a person you’d like to know, you can review his/her profile and send a note.

Overall, this is a nice and easy way to find new chat friends online.

Check out Buddystumbler@www.buddystumbler.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program

Moreover it integrates easily with Skype and also record calls as mp3 files.

Features

1. Easily organize a conference call.
2. Calling options include Truephone VoIP, Phone and Skype.
3. Easy calendar integration.
4. Send call invitations and reminders.
5. Interactive chat.
6. Recoard and save calls as MP3 files.
7. Track the attendees, see who is on and who is absent.
8. Archive and store call recordings online.

Check out Calliflower @ www.calliflower.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling
• Ring2Skype: Receive Calls On Skype From Landline For Free
• PermaTime: Easily Schedule Meeting Time Across Time Zones
• PalBee : Free Online Video Conference and Chat
• Mikogo : Screen Sharing App for Skype and Windows

When you visit the website it allows you to download a plugin for your AIM messenger which further facilitates the process of checking your friends’ updates within your AIM chat window. The updates appear as alerts in your chat window and you can read them instantly or at a later time.

We have seen such features in multi-protocol IM clients like Pidgin and Digsby but this time it has been introduced by AOL itself and hence AIM fans need not rely on third party products or log on to other sharing sites again and again to check their friends updates.

Check out BuddyUpdates @ www.buddyupdates.aim.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program
• Twitsay : Send Voice Messages to Twitter
• TwitOnMSN: Use Twitter On MSN
• Mail2.im: Forward Important Emails to IM, Mobile or Twitter
• Heysan: Chat with Friends Online from Mobile Phone

You can chat with maximum 50 visitors at a time. Visitors can type anywhere on the site and chat among themselves. If you are a visitor on a firefly enabled site then you can start chatting directly without the need to install anything.

Overall, this is certainly a nice concept and introduces a new way of spontaneous communication and interaction with the readers of your blog. You can get feedback from your site visitors directly without any time delay. Moreover even your site visitors get to interact with each other and talk about your site.

Check out Firefly @ www.firef.ly (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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As one user states:

“… I have relatives in South America who I haven’t spoken to since I have almost no knowledge of Spanish however with this I was able to hold an in depth conversation with them”

Features:

• Online chat program with real-time message translation.
• No installation required. Use MeGlobe from any computer with a browser and Internet connection.
• Contribute by suggesting better translations.
• Supported languages: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese (simplified and traditional), Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

Watch video tutorial below:

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Apart from chat, BigString also gives you an email client from where you can send self-destructing, recallable, erasable, non-forwardable and non-printable emails to others.

Features:

Supported clients: MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM and Gtalk.
• IM messages can’t be printed, coped, saved or print screened.
• Control how long your messages remains visible (from 5 seconds to 2 hours).
• Manually destruct individual messages at any time.
• Email client: Send self-destructing, recallable, erasable, non-forwardable, non-printable emails.
• No sign-up required for IM (simply use existing IM client credentials to login).
• Access all your IM accounts at once (registered users only).

BigString Intro Video

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Meeting hosts (aka organizers) have a full control over the conference session and praticipants. Pause or end transmission at any time, change presenters, give remote control to certain users and much more. Basically, it gives you pretty much everything to organize and moderate online conference meetings.

Features:

• Host live presentations and conference calls.
• Screen sharing: Share your screen view with upto 10 people at the same time.
• Tech support: Give someone full control access to your system over the internet.
• Meeting Organizer: pause/end transmission, switch presenters, send files, lock the meeting room, grant remote control etc.
• Skype extra: Use it directly from Skype. Read more here.
• Security: All data transfers are encrypted using 256-AES end-to-end encrypt method.
• Currently available only for Windows PCs.

Demo video for Mikogo Organisers

Demo video for Mikogo Participants

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There are two ways to use Dexrex.

(1) Firstly, it’s an online instant messenger for AIM, GTalk, WLM / MSN, Yahoo and Skype. Simply login using your username and pass and you will be able to chat with your buddies directly from the browser window.

(2) Alternatively, you can download the Dexrex addon for your chat program. In the latter case, Dexter automatically monitors your chat conversations and stores them in your online account. Currently it offers addons for AIM, Pidgin and Skype.

Features:

• Store, search, share, and access your chat history whenever and wherever you want.
• Upload and export existing conversations to Dexter.
• Supported chat clients: AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Pidgin, Trillian, Digsby, Miranda, Instantbird, Meca, Mercury, Emesene, and MSN.
• Login and chat with contacts online using your existing username and pass.
• Blackberry usres: Store your SMS messages online.
• And more … For more details check out the Dexrex demo video below.

Dexrex Intro Video

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One really great feature that comes with Call Graph is the ability to tag recorded conversations with relevant keywords so that you can search for them later. After you record a conversation, you have an option to add relevant information to the call.

There are two ways to record the calls. One option is to set Call Graph to record every Skype call automatically. The other one allows you to manually choose when to start and stop recording the call.

Features:

• Record Skype calls and save them as mp3 files.
• Supports Skype to Skype, SkypeIn, SkypeOut, Skype Conference and Skype Casts.
• Search and organize recordings using tags.
• Other: manage/edit recorded calls, built-in call record history, etc.

How To Record Skype Conversation

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To start things off go ahead and create your own chat room. Next simply share the provided link with friends and wait for them in the room. Once everyone has joined the room, each participant should be able to see and hear everyone else.

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Here is how it works: First you indicate the location of each participant on the map. Once all locations are pinned, go to the small calendar on the sidebar and pick a meeting date and time for your own time zone. Next you should see a list showing the corresponding local times for each participant. If everything seems correct then click on the ‘Email’ button on the sidebar.

Features:

• Schedule conference calls across multiple time zones.
• Daylight savings times are included so you won’t be caught off guard.
• Easily set participant’s locations on the map.
• If you can’t find a location you need, use the “City Search” feature.
• Zoom into the map for better accuracy.
• No sign up or registration required.

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Depending on your connection setting, you are able to choose between different connection modes. If you’re on a fast line you can go with high audio quality mode, users on slower lines can switch to low bandwidth mode. It claims to work even on dial-up modems.

Features:

• Make internet phone calls from one browser to another.
• Switchboard users: call your friends, leave voicemails, instant message, send files etc.
• Login and chat with your MSN, AIM, and ICQ contacts.
• Enable / Disable sound effects and popup alerts.
• Connection modes: Guaranteed / high audio quality / low bandwidth mode.
• Works even in corporate network environments (i.e. through proxy servers)
• Receive email notifications on incoming voicemails.
• Premium service: Create private switchboard for your blog or website.

Keep in mind, in order to run Switchboard on your browser you will need to have Java installed, an internet connection and a working headset.

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