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Social chatting with the AIM Wimzi
AOL has released a new way for people to chat through social networking pages or websites.This new chat widget is called the AIM Wimzi. By placing the Wimzi widget on a blog, social network page, or any other website, users can instantly chat with you when you are online with AIM. The bonus here is that your AIM name remains private, but you are able to chat with anyone. Widget names, display name, size and color can all be customized to make the widget fit in, or stand out wherever you place it. Placing it is simple through a quick copy and past of html, or flash embed code.
Other players in the widgets for websites and social site chatting space are Meebome and Geesee.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jabapyth said 11:35PM on 6-29-2007
what a rip of meebo
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cherie yannone said 11:50AM on 6-30-2007
The widget works beautifully. Easy to configure, if not a tad limited in choices. Installs easily. Works great inside Blogger. The online-away message is instantaneous. Overall - sweet.
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davejeyes said 2:25PM on 8-02-2007
It's pretty easy to configure, but the alignment is screwy. If you center your WimZi, you also center the text in the dialog box. That's just awkward. Any help?
Cheers,
Dave J
http://www.aolworkstyles.com
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davejeyes said 2:58PM on 8-02-2007
It's pretty easy to configure, but the alignment is screwy. If you center your WimZi, you also center the text in the dialog box. That's just awkward. Any help?
Cheers,
Dave J
http://www.aolworkstyles.com
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