Skype is back in action…

Skype announced its return back to normalcy today! This must be a relief to millions of its users who rely on their services not only for personal use but only for business use.

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Many startups use Skype as their internal communication tool if they have geographically dispersed offices. Did their 2-3 days of downtime impact your business? If yes, how? If not, how come! :-)

Do share your experiences in a world without Skype (for 2 days!)…

MySpace launches instant messaging service: MySpaceIM

MySpace has launched a beta version of its Instant Messaging Service called MySpaceIM.

According to their site, this is what it is capable of as of now:

A sample screenshot taken from their website of the IM client is shown below:

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Yahoo! Messenger for the Web

Does your corporate policy prevent you from using IMs like Yahoo! Messenger?

Does the corporate proxy server block the ports Yahoo! Messenger uses?

Well…here’s Yahoo! Messenger for the Web. The same Instant Messenger but it runs within your browser. Sounds cool!

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I’ve been using it for a few days and its quite good. Infact, its almost the same as the regular IM client.

So, lets hope your proxy server doesn’t block access to this new URL now! ;-)