Posted 07/28/08 at 02:09:16 PM by Chris Moody

TechCrunch reports that the Delicious team says to get ready for the new version, it’s “almost ready” Of course we have heard that line before. Back in September ‘07 Delicious 2.0 was “feature complete and in private beta”. Hints where also dropped back in February that a launch was imminent. The TechCrunch guys are pretty confident that Team Delicious isn’t going to psych us out again and we can expect to see it launch soon.

Some folks were beginning to think the guys at Yahoo were pulling a Trillian Astra sort of tease and would end up in perpetual beta. Anyone want to setup a pool on who opens first, Delicious or Astra? Which gets your vote?

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Posted 07/19/08 at 05:57:57 PM by Justin Kerr

Instant messaging is a great way to stay in touch, but anybody who uses it extensively knows the pain of having friends spread out over different services. Ever install a bulky and bloated IM client for just one friend? Or wished you could instant message all your groupies without running 5 different chat clients in the system tray? Well IM providers and a handful of crafty open source programmers have listened to our cries. Free browser-based alternatives exist for all the major platforms, and all in one desktop clients are finally able to bring the competing services together.

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Posted 06/30/07 at 12:24:27 AM by Will Smith

Will takes a late night test spin with the latest alpha version of the newest entry to the multi-format instant messaging race

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