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So maybe this is why no one uses our Skype Reference Service

In his latest column in Time Magazine, Joel Stein writes why people don’t like video phones. Even though Skype is the only one of all the cool gadgets that cartoons promised me would exist by 2010, people don’t seem nearly … Continue reading

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The chocolate and peanut butter are mixed again: Using Trillian Astra with Meebo Widgets

A while back I wrote about how Meebo and Pidgin are like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. In that blog post I described how to use a plugin for Pidgin that would allow you to connect to your Meebo widgets through … Continue reading

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