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Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta

The Windows Live Essentials beta is now available for download.  I’ve had a chance... 

ChatRoulette and “Nexting” ChatRoulette and “Nexting”

If you haven’t heard of it, ChatRoulette is an up-and-coming webcam service... 

Who Blocked Me? Who Blocked Me?

It’s one of those questions that just never seems to go away….”Who has... 

A Love Story in Emoticons A Love Story in Emoticons

Storyteller and poet Rives tells a three-minute love story with a twist — it’s... 

Skype for SIP beta now open Skype for SIP beta now open

Skype has expanded testing of their Skype for SIP beta, opening it to any interested... 

10,000 Hotmail Accounts Hacked 10,000 Hotmail Accounts Hacked

From the Windows Live Team blog: Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several... 

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Social Networks

The Beast The Beast

Google is taking a lot of heat lately from their privacy flap over Google Buzz. Their... 

Talk Nerdy To Me Talk Nerdy To Me

What’s in a (brand) name? A little social media humor for today’s Sunday... 

What is Twitter? What is Twitter?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s been pretty hard to avoid... 

U2 Live on YouTube U2 Live on YouTube

Rock giants U2 will be broadcasting tonight’s concert at the Rose Bowl in a... 

Twitter Down? Twitter Down?

I’ve been getting the Twitter Fail Whale with an “over capacity”... 

Dilbert Does Twitter Dilbert Does Twitter

Scott Adams Dilbert comic provides a wickedly satirical view of life in cubespace.... 

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Mobile

Trillian for Blackberry Beta Trillian for Blackberry Beta

The popular and venerable multi-network IM program Trillian is now available in an open beta test for Blackberry devices. Like the other versions of Trillian, this supports the major instant messaging networks including AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, MySpace and Facebook. It allows you to manage meta contacts (one of... [Read more]

Blackberry Email Outage Blackberry Email Outage

Blackberry users throughout North America faced long delays receiving email on their devices this Thursday. Research In Motion said they were aware of the problem and that engineers were working to solve it as soon as possible. RIM noted that customers could still make and receive phone calls, text messages and browse the Internet. Customers first noted... [Read more]

The Truth About Sexting The Truth About Sexting

Sexting is all over the news these days. Whether you find it risky or risque, Joy of Tech’s Nitrozac and Snaggy share the truth about sexting in this week’s Sunday Funny.  Read More →

Google Goggles for Android Google Goggles for Android

Google has done some interesting things with mobile search in the past year, introducing voice search and local search using the location awareness capabilities of today’s smartphones. Today, they are introducing visual search called Google Goggles. Google Goggles let’s you take a picture of something, and Google will do a quick search that... [Read more]

Nimbuzz Intros IM for BlackBerry Nimbuzz Intros IM for BlackBerry

Nimbuzz has created the first multi-network IM app for BlackBerry smartphones available in the RIM App World store. Because it’s design as a native BlackBerry app, it can run in the background and push notifications to the phone much like their iPhone and Android apps can. This is the first version, and currently only supports instant messaging... [Read more]

Yahoo Updates iPhone Messenger Yahoo Updates iPhone Messenger

Yahoo has released an update to Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone. Version 1.3 fixes some bugs, adds support for several languages and adds some nice new features. What’s New in 1.3? Finally Yahoo has added the most-requested feature — the ability to change your display pic right from your iPhone. You can take a picture with the built-in iPhone... [Read more]

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Update From the BigBlue Blog

BigBlueBall Staffer Philip Recognized as Microsoft MVP BigBlueBall Staffer Philip Recognized as Microsoft MVP

More great news from the BigBlueBall staff. Long time staff member Philip has been recognized by Microsoft as a 2010 Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Live Messenger. As he noted on his blog, Philip received the notification on New Year’s Day — a nice way to kick-off the new year! Philip has been a member of BigBlueBall since... [Read More]

BigBlueBall Staffer Awarded Microsoft MVP BigBlueBall Staffer Awarded Microsoft MVP

BigBlueBall staff member Doris Kenney–patndoris in the forums–has been officially recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Live Messenger (WLM). The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise... [Read More]

BigBlueBall Featured at the StudioPress Showcase BigBlueBall Featured at the StudioPress Showcase

Back on March 1st, we introduced an extensive redesign of BigBlueBall to make it easier for you to participate in our community. We revamped the front end of our site to leverage the powerful-but-flexible WordPress back end. We made it possible to comment without registering, and made it possible for you to sign in using your Facebook account.  But... [Read More]

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