Pretty soon you'll see a Facebook chat bar at the bottom of your screen whenever you log into Facebook, you won't need to do anything. With the Facebook chat bar you'll always be able to...

If you love to Twitter then you'll love the Twitter desktop application called Twitteriffic. Keep track of your friend's Twitter updates in real time and always know when they update. You...

Send messages from your computer or from your phone with the Jaiku social networking service. When you send messages using your smart phone, your message will show up on your Jaiku profile with the...

Is email dead? Well, no, not really. People still use email all the time, and for lots of different things. But now that social networking is becoming more and more popular it's also becoming a...

I love 3D stuff. Create your own little avatar, make her look the way you want her to. Then choose a 3D location and meet other people who are doing the same thing you are, just chatting. IMVU is...

The five utilities reviewed work with AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! IM. When you chat with other users of BlowSearch Secured Messenger 2.1.0, your conversation is encrypted for security. The free,...

Niall Kennedy posts about LiveJournal's upcoming integration with the Jabber Open Instant Messenger Network, which Google Talk uses too: Developers should be able to authenticate against the...

From TechCrunch: PalTalk operates through a Windows desktop client and has already proven itself very scalable. It uses GAIM to create a consolidated buddy list across AIM, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ....

tourb.us is a new cool little startup out of Boston that's making it easy for fans to keep track of when their favorite bands come to town. It is a mashup in that you can upload your favorite...

Greg Narain is testing whether content can be the context for chat initiation: However, all is not lost. An angel came to me with something much better. You'll notice that now there is a Live...