Popular multi-platform, multi-IM chat app, Nimbuzz, is wondering down a new road today with the announcement of their “Chat Buddy Developers Program”. The program, combined with the opening of Nimbuzz’s messenger API, is a move by the company to better cater to 3rd party companies and help them gain access to a claimed 90+ million Nimbuzz users. A few of the companies whom Nimbuzz has already worked with include Twitter (tweeting within Nimbuzz),...
Status icons in Facebook chat are a handy way for your friends to know a few basic things you’re doing at any given point. Currently, Facebook shows simple green dots for people online and actively using said service and a little mobile phone when they’re signed in on their mobile devices. So we’d naturally assume this new(?) controller icon found by one of our readers would indicate the Facebook user in question is actively engaged in a game. According to...
Besides a differentiating coat of paint, multi-account IM clients aren’t all that different these days. A small feature here or there are the only deciding factors left for feature hounds to stew over. But a few times a year we as consumers are treated to major revisions which bring about massive UI changes and/or new features. Shape Services recently released IM+ 4.0 for Android. With it comes a thoroughly revamped UI and promises of faster, more intuitive...
One of RIM’s staple services, BlackBerry Messenger, has a rather substantial update in the making. The image above shows what is claimed to be BBM 6.1′s new interface which includes more customization options and all new icons. To some it may not seem like much. But to BlackBerry fanatics who’ve been looking at the same aging pixels since BBM 5.0 was released last year, it’s more than welcome. Via: ...
As suspected, RIM announced some upcoming changes in their BlackBerry Messenger platform that will coincide with increased social aspects of future OS updates. Indonesian blog, Kombb, managed to get some claimed preliminary details of BBM 6.0: Play games using your BBM username Cross-chat with users on BBM even without being their friends. BBM status will update dynamically depending on goals and accomplishments from games. BBM6 will be supported on all 5.x+...
