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Facebook-like Chats in your Website

Envolve created and offers for all web admins and companies who are trying to push up their web sites the way of integrating Facebook-like chat functionalities.

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.

Microsoft OneApp for Mobiles

oneapp01The mobile market in all of its forms has, indeed, made a big impact around the world within the last few years. The ideas of stay always “connected” whenever and wherever, simplifying your life using a single device were just a few around. Big companies are focusing in these interconnections and technologies because, let’s face it: pays off. And Microsoft it’s no exception, this time presenting an interesting app: OneApp.

oneapp02What’s the idea? This mobile app will let you access other apps like Facebook, Twitter (TweetLite), Live Messenger, games and more without actually installing them on your phone.  Even though the application architecture and functionality are not revealed, seems that the small footprint from OneApp (150kb) will dynamically launch parts of the application and avoid installation or storage requirements; something like application virtualization for web apps, not a bad idea.

OneApp also includes cloud services that help offload processing and storage from the phone to the Internet, improving overall performance. But, as you may think, this mobile app it is only compatible with a few phones (at least in this first stage); here’s the list:

  • Nokia 3555, 5320, 6300, 6500, 6600, E50, E51, E63, E65, E66, E71, N70, N72, N73, N78, N80, N81, N82, N85, N95, N96
  • Samsung U900 Soul
  • Sony Ericsson C510, C902, C905, G705,K610i, K800i, K805i, T650i, W200i, W580i, W595, W660i, W980

Are you planning in using it?