Whoopie: our first run of widgets were inspired by our engineers’ personal needs and preferences for what information they would like to access while in online conversation. Indeed these widgets may not apply to all of our users’ sensibilities, and this is precisely why I encourage users such as yourself to let us know what they would like to see on our site. We have opened widget development to anyone who wants to personally take on the task as well, however we’d be happy to funnel your ideas directly into our pipeline.

Ben: CEOs. Go figure.

James: A discriminating user…I likes. I cannot say too much at the moment (which is quite difficult for me), however we have been hard at work developing our premier product that we feel will genuinely usher in the next stage of online communication. In essence, this is where our piggy back is headed, and all that we have done up to this point is to prepare users (and ourselves) for this main event. Keep it tuned.

Thanks again for everyone’s input, and keep flicking it up…

Anyway, time will tell who will be the winners in this space.

1. James I agree 100%. If you have big bucks, something better show, in this era of web 2.0, open source, and cheap over seas labor, deploying products or services and deploying them is easier than ever.

2. Robert and Jeffery.I just tried the app in opera, FF and IE 6 + 7, FF on Linux and Safari on Mac. I tried using 5 different AIM accounts, some with 2 buddies, some with 100. Works fine, try again.

3. William J. This was not an attempt to tak the Buzz from Flick.IM. I simply stated that we have been mixing content + services + bots + IM for almosy 18 months now. Is thier a crime in stating that you have been doing something that was mentioned as “new”. I dont think so.

4. Meebo is an excellent product, those who worry about load in the broadband world should not, speed is getting faster and faster, thus, why web 2.0, video and audio on the web has taken off.

5. If netvibes was to add IM, than what makes Flick.IM unique in any case, that is all the content + services +aggregation and IM.

6. About the Google ads, that is a method of monetization, it is also part of our overall and general testing. It makes money, i will not lie but users dont mind ads as long as the service is useful and the ads are not overwhelming. You cant expect an ad free site that gives it service for free, this is why the first internet bubble happened, no one was making money, all they were doing was spending money.

Thank You so much. I wish everyone the best of luck

I went to KoolIM, and the only thing that seemed to work were their Google Ads, Banners, and all that other stuff consuming their page.

seems like the apps on flickim are pretty sweet compared to the apps on koolim. the fact that flickim already has their api working and these sweet apps like yelp and lastfm makes koolim and meebo boring…

We already have support for News, Weather, Stocks, and other content channels. We have had these since the day we launched, We also have a developer API which is part of our platform but has yet to be published.

Look out for a Major announcment and release from KoolIM.

I just tried it out, its actually really cool.
Though the welp widget doesn’t seem to be working.

http://www.crazymenu.com/groupPick

“For instance, a Yelp widget will let users search for restaurants and send the reviews to friends through a chat message.”

who does this? who even wants to do this?