This application is very basic and they have just taken the whole user interface directly from GTalk.

It is about time someone came up with a Facebook chat application, but is a clone really necessary? Couldn’t you come up with something original!

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Tweet.li, developed in Adobe AIR, comes as an idea to replace TinyChat and other similar web apps which you can use in your browser but easily share the chat rooms to your Twitter timeline and invite followers; including also the possibility to login using your Twitter account name.

But even though the idea sounds great there are a few cons so far: To use it with your followers, they must use Tweet.li as well, no other option available; also the application stability and performance are not actually the best, since it takes a few moments for the timeline to update.

Even though I enjoy saying “Twitter is not a chat room”, there are some exceptions and there are even more number of users who actually use it for chatting.

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Facebook is making a large impact in the world, no news there; social networks and sociability is changing, also the market and possibilities around there. Windows Live Messenger had a big impact a while ago because the popularity of Facebook: People prefer the Facebook chat instead of using Microsoft’s application.

Envolve offers the service to use in your site similar chat functionalities used in Facebook for your visitors. Even more, Envolve service delivers also some extra functionality we don’t find specifically in Facebook’s chat:

• Real-time translation. For chatting with people in a different language.
• Shareable chats. Each chat has a custom short URL. Friends and followers can use it to join in or view the chat later.
• Statistics. View real-time statistics and read old chats that have occured on your website.
• Private and public chats.
• Drag-n-drop. To invite another user to a chat — public or private — simply drag-and-drop their name or picture into the desired chat window.

As we said, this is a service provided for Envolve and no, it is not free. The pricing depends on how many visitors currently have: Starts with a “basic” plan at U$S7 per month (up to 5K visitor per month); and the “platinum” plan at U$S89 per month (handling over 100K visitors).

More info about pricing here.

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Meeting24 is a simple and powerful web app; you just need a few seconds to set up your meeting room:

1. Create an account. It is completely free.
2. Set up the meeting room with just one step. This meeting will be available for 24 hours; you’ll receive an URL to use it with friends.
3. Send the URL to your friends. They don’t need an account to login, just by clicking the URL will be enough.

Even though the meeting is available for 24 hours, you can still create unlimited number of conferences with your free account.

Of course, you don’t need 24 members to set up a meeting. The only requirement to use it is a web browser with Flash.

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There are a lot of bad websites out there. A lot.

Websites with 8-bit graphics seemingly ripped from Atari games, with laughable copy errors that immediately diminish credibility, and with such awful usability that you need a Dr. Phil intervention to calm down after surfing through the third-rate portals.

This is one reason I co-founded VOIS.com (pronounced VOICE), or Virtual Outsourcing is Social. Not only can VOIS’ collaborative approach to completing projects produce superior results – from slickly branded and intuitive websites to fun, traffic-churning widgets – but it can also make it more affordable for businesses.

Don’t get me wrong; this is not the business owners’ faults. As a blogger for a major food website, I can say first hand that these are good people with the best of intentions. But just because someone knows how to make donuts, pizza or surfboards, it doesn’t mean they should know how to create a compelling online storefront. And hiring expensive firms on retainer often isn’t a workable business model for small and medium-sized businesses, or even larger firms that don’t have the bandwidth to handle their current business needs.

That’s why VOIS seeks to connect clients with expert Web professionals – from designers to developers and copywriters – to work on a project basis. What separates us from other business match-making platforms is that we allow and encourage the clients and talent to get to know each other first by exploring robust online profiles and messaging back and forth.

Click-and-mortar, web-driven start-ups have also had to change their game plan, and VOIS was developed for these businesses, too. With start-up capital tougher and tougher to attract, it’s no longer feasible for someone to hire developer and a CTO, build an infrastructure from scratch, then roll out and ramp up a product. I’ve met many people who have burned through $500,000 before looking at a more cost-efficient way of doing things.

And I really feel VOIS is that new way of doing things. We’re keeping VOIS wide open in terms of the scope of projects we accommodate – no niche focus or specialized tunnel vision. This will help us attract more users and offer truly turnkey solutions for our users.

So as the VOIS community grows, fueled by this added interpersonal dimension, I look forward at seeing some truly amazing work forged through the power of online collaboration. In other words, no more bad websites, or half-completed start-ups that could have been the next big thing.

In fact, I think VOIS is the next big thing.

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