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We are very pleased to announce that WeBuzz.IM now supports Facebook Chat.

Lots of people ask for Facebook Chat support since WeBuzz.IM is online. And now it comes. According to Facebook Chat XMPP support, you must have a username first, before you can use Facebook Chat outside its website. So if you have no short username yet, try to get one from Facebook official website:

1. Go to account settings:

Open Facebook Account Settings

2. Change username, check availability and confirm about your username.

3. Logout and login again to make the username working. If you do not logout and login again, you still can not login to Facebook Chat outside its official website.

4. To use WeBuzz.IM multiple protocol web IM services, please visit http://webuzz.im/. After page is loaded, click the bottom Facebook icon to launch Facebook Chat window, and enter your given username and password …

You can visit the following links to launch Facebook Chat directly:

• http://webuzz.im/facebook-chat/
• http://webuzz.im/web-facebook-chat/
• http://webuzz.im/fb-chat/
• http://webuzz.im/web-fb-chat/
• http://webuzz.im/fbchat/
• http://webuzz.im/web-fbchat/

Please report bugs and let us know about your thought.

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We are very pleased to announce that now WeMail supports Hotmail/Live Mail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL/AIM Mail and other mail providers, besides Gmail.

To use other mail provider, you should choose “Other …” for provider, and then click “Configure” link to configure mail server settings:

The incoming/outgoing mail server domain names are usually in format: pop/smtp.xxxxx.com. You should your mail provider for this settings:

You can use WeMail by the following URLs:

1. http://webuzz.im/mail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-mail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-gmail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-hotmail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-yahoo-mail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-aol-mail/
2. http://demo.java2script.org/mail/
3. http://java2script.org/mail/
4. http://izuz.net/mail/
5. http://uziz.net/mail/

WeMail service is in beta testing, please give us feedbacks, your words count! Thanks!

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We, WeBuzz.IM, are very pleased to announce our new web service “WeMail“, a free web mail client for Gmail. Besides Google Mail, we are planing to add supports of other mail providers like Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail and so on in later updates. WeMail uses similar Gmail UI, so those Gmail users will feel much comfortable.

Currently, WeMail supports both POP3 and IMAP on Gmail. But enabling Gmail’s IMAP will give you a faster Gmail accessing. Without IMAP being enabled, we will connect to your Gmail by POP3 protocol, but result in disabling lots of Gmail features. Please enable Gmail’s IMAP by “Log into the official Gmail website -> “Settings” -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> IMAP Access: Enable IMAP”.

Here is our server list for WeMail, in case webuzz.im is not available:

1. http://webuzz.im/mail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-mail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-gmail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-hotmail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-yahoo-mail/
   http://webuzz.im/web-aol-mail/
2. http://demo.java2script.org/mail/
3. http://java2script.org/mail/
4. http://izuz.net/mail/
5. http://uziz.net/mail/

WeMail service is in beta testing, please give us feedbacks, your words count! Thanks!

– We buzz together @ WeBuzz.IM

We are very pleased to introduce another WeBuzz service called “WeBrowse“. WeBrowse is a photo social browsing service. It is for fun. There are lots of tagged photos with high quality. These photos are already filtered by millions of Chinese people. So all those photos there are popular enough to be listed here. And we will update those photos frequently to bring you updated.

WeBrowse service’s slogan is “We browse together” and “We browse, we buzz“. We hope this service will help all our visitors enjoying himself/herself on chatting with friends while browsing beautiful or funny photos.

WeBrowse service is designed for all visitors, inside or outside China. We use Google Translate to provide our pages in 50+ languages. So no matter where you are from, no matter which language you are speaking, you can find WeBrowse pages in your familiar language. Here is a list of common language WeBrowse page:

• WeBrowse in English
• WeBrowse in Chinese
• WeBrowse in Spanish
• WeBrowse in French
• WeBrowse in Arabic
• WeBrowse in Hindi
• WeBrowse in Portuguese
• WeBrowse in Japanese
• WeBrowse in German
• WeBrowse in Russian
• WeBrowse in Italian
• …

You can choose your language in the upper-corner language box.

WeBrowse service tags all those photos, so you can browse the photos which is in your favorite photo categories.  And WeBrowse also provide most viewed photos list and best rating photo list for you to find the best photos in a much easy way, maybe one click.

Browsing funny and beautiful photos about the earth could be a lot of fun! Please join us at WeBrowse now, and give us feedback for better service.

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WeBuzz.IM has rolled out another update v20090919, hiding description texts and hiding logo panel to leave more room.In a result, you may find your chatting background is much cleaner, and you can enjoy a happier web chatting experience.

1. Hiding description text automatically for those old users who use WeBuzz.IM for more than 3 times. Here are two pictures to show the differences.

And before hiding texts, it is considered as very crowd：

You can click “<” or “>” button to toggle text description:

2. We support another option to hide IM main window’s logo panel. In a result, you may get longer friend list.

In some earlier updates, we have already removed ads from chatting dialog and we will automatically hide our bottom quick launch bar and tray task corner. All those changes are following the principle of leaving more room for web IM chatting.

We always take improving web chatting user experience as the most important job for WeBuzz.IM. Please give us feedbacks to make improvements.

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We are very pleased to announce that WeBuzz.IM supports web Jabber/web XMPP ( http://webuzz.im/jabber/ ) from now on. And WeBuzz.IM’s web Gtalk is improved to support Google Apps users.

Jabber/XMPP is an open and widely used IM protocol. The well know Google Talk is using Jabber/XMPP. And there are lots of jabber servers besides Gtalk and jabber.org server . You can google “jabber server list” for more jabber servers. It seems that lots of server provide Gtalk/MSN/AIM/Yahoo! Messenger/ICQ/QQ gateway for its users. To learn more about Jabber/XMPP, please visit http://jabber.org/ and http://xmpp.org/ .

To login your jabber, you should login Jabber with full email address. The string “<user name>@<jabber server name>” will tell WeBuzz.IM that you want to login jabber server with your user name.

We also improve our web Gtalk service to support Google Apps users. You can login Googl Talk with extra “@<your domain>” in the username field to tell WeBuzz.IM that you are using different email rather than those “@gmail.com”.

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We are eating our own dog food everyday, using WeBuzz.IM in our daily network life. And we find some bugs, we love some features and want to add some more .

Avatar (or profile picture) is the main feature of Windows Live Messenger (MSN). As it is known, in Microsoft’s official messenger, we have to click on everyone’s icon to view the latest picture. It’s very inconvenient for us to catch up with friends’ updates. While, WeBuzz.IM shows all pictures by default. In this case, we won’t miss any new avatars. And we like to see those familiar avatars and would enjoy new avatars coming up now and then.

Everyone likes the notification way. Most time, we do not like to be disturbed. While on internet ,we always notify some blinking titles starting with “[”, “<”, “(”, or anything else. Such useless message is not welcome , especially in working time. Don’t be worry. WeBuzz.IM can provide you a “safety situation”—no disturbution.

For bugs, clicking on the scrollbars won’t activated the messenger client, a little confusion. IE 8.0 is not well supported yet. If there more than 2 messengers are open, it seems that no enough space is left for chatting … All these bugs may be fixed or may be improved in the future.

Any others bugs? Which features do you like? What new features do you like to see in the future updates? Please report bugs or make feature requests, or just leave us comments.

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About 6 months ago, we have a post talking about embeding izuz.net web IMs into other websites. At that time, we did not use the name “WeBuzz.IM” and did not make http://webuzz.im/ as the primary service site. And now we would like to update this kind of information for developers:

To embed WeBuzz.IM in your website is very simple, just add a SCRIPT element with src=”http://webuzz.im/im.js” into your HTML pages:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://webuzz.im/im.js"></script>

For example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>We Buzz Together @ WeBuzz.IM</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://webuzz.im/im.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Someone have reported that “http://webuzz.im/” may not be accessible in some country/network, you may replace http://webuzz.im/im.js with

• http://izuz.net/im.js
• http://uziz.net/im.js
• http://demo.java2script.org/im.js
• http://java2script.org/im.js

We will synchronize these scripts when we make updates.

We DO NOT recommend you to copy this im.js to your website and load your copy. As you may get out of date and WeBuzz.IM in your website may not be working. But if you do insist doing so, you can follow WeBuzz.IM @ http://twitter.com/webuzzim and subscribe this blog feed for latest updates and synchronize your im.js.

If you embedding WeBuzz.IM under URL with words “gtalk”, “msnlive”, “ymessenger” or “aim”, the specific messenger will be launched automatically when the page is loaded. For example, page http://###.###.com/gtalk.html will launch Google Talk automatically.

And we would like to hear your feedback and feature requests on integrating WeBuzz.IM into your websites. It would be kind for you to send us an email telling us that you are embedding WeBuzz.IM in your websites. We may link to you or notify you for our updates.

We just updated our web Gtalk/MSN/AIM/Y!Messenger webuzz.im, fixing bugs and adding a “remembering password” feature for daily users ( Feature is only enabled for site http://webuzz.im/ ) .

Your password is NOT remembered on our servers. The password is remembered on your browser’s cookie. You can clear cookie or unselect “Remember password” option and login again to clean the remembered password, whenever you think it’s necessary.

You password is encrypted using RSA alogorithm before being remembered in browser’s cookie. And no one could crack your real password out of RSA-encrypted password text. No one could peek your password. In one word, your remembered password is safe.

We are always making our best to make our web IM services secure and convenient.

These days, iZuZ’s web IM services were unstable for being under database pressure and met some crashing down. And we were working hard to fix these problems over these days. And now we are very proud to tell you, our users, that we had fixed those problems. We will always be trying to provide you better and stabler web IM services.

Here are our services updates:

1. Updating Web IMs to Version 20081110
We add “News and Updates” for each login. We hope our visitors to get the latest news or updates of our web IM sevices.

2. Adding New Message Arrival Sound Notification
You may already notice that if there is a new message, a sound is played to catch your attention.

3. Adding Avatar Support to Yahoo! Messenger
We already support avatar in Gtalk, MSN, AIM. And now after adding avatar support to Y! Messenger, all of iZuZ’s web IM services are supporting avatar.

4. Adding Support of Embedding iZuZ Web IMs in Other Sites
For more information, please read previous post “Embed izuz’s Web IMs in Your Site”.

5. Fixing Bugs of Services Being Unstable
Our servers will be more stable and have higher percent of online time.

As always, we, http://izuz.net/, iZuZ web IM services will try to provide you our best services.