As part of this release, they’ve also launched a bit of a redesign of the “more menu”.

I for one think this link sharing / bookmark service is the best one out there. If you think otherwise please let me know which service you use and why it’s better.

• Offline Messaging
• Voice Clips
• Display pictures
• Custom emoticons
• Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
• Webcam support
• Sign in to more than one account at once
• Full-speed File transfers
• Group support
• Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
• Chat logs
• Timestamping
• Event alarms
• Conferencing support
• Tabbed chat windows

For a full list, see the features page. More features can be added to aMSN with plugins , or completely change its look with different skins!

And finally, the best part is that it is platform independent. Choose your download package over at Sourceforge.net.

Ware shuttered the doors to a San Jose, Calif., hearing pitting Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, probably the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, against Harvard University classmates who claim Zuckerberg stole ideas and source code from a similar venture called ConnectU. Ware took this extraordinary step without notice, without a formal request from either side, and without even specifying why it was necessary.

So what’s so special with this hearing that calls for a private status? Follow the story on CNet News.

Attract more visitors. Visitors bring along friends from social networks like Facebook, orkut, and others to interact on your site.

Enrich your site with social features. Choose engaging social features from a catalogue of gadgets provided by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.

No programming whatsoever. Just copy and paste snippets of code into your site, and Google Friend Connect does the rest.

Google Friend Connect is being made available to a limited number of site owners as it approaches general availability. If you are interested in participating, fill out this short form.

Main reason is probably the add-ons which makes your page look more and more like your old MySpace page. Secondly your mail box keeps piling up with superwall, funwall, annoyingwall and other crap messages from Facebook. It’s like signing up and volunteer to receive more SPAM.

To back up my statement I had a look at recent growth trends at compete;

Twitter on the other hand is all about creative macro-blogging. It enables you to tell your friends and colleagues where you are and what you do via the web, IM or mobile, basically from anywhere, with 140 characters or less.

I’ve only just started, but I see a future. Join me if you like…

When Jack Dorsey, one of the people behind the Twitter-consept, received an award at the South by Southwest festival a year ago, he held the following speach:

We’d like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did!

I’d like to hear your opinions on this, will Facebook die over the next few years, along with MySpace (MS will probably never let that happen)? And what about twitter, will the success continue?

Digsby is an application that merges all (most of) your on-line services into one. It currently supports the following IM clients: AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber. But it doesn’t stop there, it also supports the following email clients: Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, POP, IMAP, AIM/AOL Mail. And if that wasn’t enough for you it also troughs a few social networks in the mix – Facebook, Twitter and MySpace to be exact.

To view exactly what to expect take a look at the features listing and/or some screen shots of Digsby in action.

Before downloading I recommend that you register. That will make the installation process even simpler. After you have downloaded the application and logged in with your new user details you can start adding IM, Email and SN accounts through “Tools -> Preferences” (will most likely pop up automatically).

Simple and intuitive, shouldn’t take you more than a few minutes (as long as you remember all your account details…).

As an added bonus I’ve found Digsby to be very gentle on the memory, and it does support video calls and all the other features found in e.g. MSN. Current version works on Apple, Windows and Linux =

If you decide to give it a try I’d love to hear your first impressions as well.