People can start a chat, then simply send a URL of the chat to friends via email, Facebook or Twitter.

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They also want information about the people who are talking them up--or down--so they can figure out how to massage these chat-fests and send messages to potential customers.

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Skout is a mobile app that people can use to meet others, flirt, chat and send photos and virtual gifts to one another.

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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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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.

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Playstation Network will allow players to connect, send game invites, and access voice chat.

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In a recent TEDMED chat on Twitter, Regina pointed out the need for cards to send hospice patients at the end of life.

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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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Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, returned to Wharton for a chat with his old finance professor, Richard Herring and the talk makes provocative reading which might send you to Amazon for more.

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