If you invite friends to the network you can see when they are online, what pages they are surfing, and you can even jump onto the same page and send them a chat message about it.
Microsoft has announced it intends to "retire" its instant message chat tool and replace it with Skype's messaging tool.
The Internet's chat rooms, message boards and instant messaging systems have long been fertile ground for opinions both glowing and nasty--especially nasty.
Then a light bulb went off: What if he came up with an application that would allow him to video chat and instant message with people who might know the answer?
According to Mr Bruce, it consists mainly of "message boards, chat functions, and state sponsored media".
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North Korea expert Scott Thomas Bruce previously told the BBC this comprises mainly of "message boards, chat functions, and state sponsored media".
It has a message board and a chat facility, and the layout and design are of high quality.
Kik is a popular alternative that not only pushes messages but also includes a bevy of metadata that helps contextualize chat conversations like knowing when a message has been delivered and read.
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He said reporters could also see if subscribers were using "message" or "chat" functions to send messages to each other over the terminals, but not the recipient of the messages or their content.
"If you look at the 500 million people who are on Facebook and the way that people text each other and instant message and use video chat, there is now an evolution of media, " Kotick said.
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But LulzSec responded to the post with its own message saying that the chat channel exposed was used for recruitment rather than core operations, and denying that many of the names included in the conversation represented LulzSec members.
Using the online tools of the early 2000s -- message boards, fan sites, chat rooms and LiveJournal blogs -- they organized.
You could then possibly message to an individual buyer with our coming private chat or send out a tweet to your followers all for free.
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Windows Phone users will be able to view photos and social networking updates for just that group, if they want, and talk to each other as a group through email and instant message services such as Windows Live Messenger and Facebook Chat.
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The service purportedly sends a message to friends on all their channels, Facebook, chat, SMS and Twitter.
In the message was a link that supposedly connected to an official MTGox chat site.
Users send an invite by email or text message, and the invitee taps a button to enter a browser chat, which opens a browser-based chat room on their phone.
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It works much like the video feature in the company's Poke app -- press and hold the red record button, speak your message and it'll appear in-line as part of your chat, represented by a clickable sound wave icon.
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