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Isn’t it amazing how easy for us to meet new friends these days? The Internet technology makes it all possible with the emergence of social websites and online dating sites. Most of these services are free to join. These services even provide free blog hosting services so you can start blogging right away.

One such site is Friendsation.com, a free online dating site. Joining is absolutely free. The site also has a special feature which enables you to have a live free chat with other members currently online. Friendsation is more than just a social networking website it’s an interactive free service to meet new friends online.

One best thing about an ecommerce site is when the owner can answer a customer’s query in an instant. I am talking about support chat. Do you know that having a real time chat on your website can add up on your website’s sales? Online buyers, scrutinize the products before they actually purchase it. The reason behind this is that, online shopping is as easy as one click of the mouse, but once there is a problem with the product that has been purchased; the time and effort spent on returning it can actually get on your nerves. That is why having a support chat can ease up this difficulty and therefore can easily convince your site’s buyer to go and purchase your products.

I have seen several live chat in big ecommerce sites. But some of these chat services impressed me. I think not all of them are spontaneous in delivering an instant communication within their customers. Not only that, some of them is on and off. Meaning you have to wait until their systems are working – not so dependable and wise.

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Chatforfree.org offers free Video Chat Rooms with webcams and audio. This is the perfect place to have fun, meet new friends, and get a date. The only requirement is that you need to be at least 18 years of age in order to enter the chat rooms.

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Goboardz is ideal for people who want to make a quick, sleek stylish forum on their website but don’t have the time to set one up, maybe they don’t have the funds to buy forums such as vbulletin or not have the time to get ones such as phpbb working properly.

Sound like you? If so were here to solve all your problems, simply sign up to GoBoardz - Free Forums and then it will be available to use almost instantaneously. Along with the fact it being free it has some great features such as, email messaging, rss feeds, able to dig and del.icio.us topics in the forum and create your very own sub domain!

It also lets you do the usual basic forum features such as allows avatars, embed videos and upload/link pictures so with goboardz your forum will be the same if not better then the other forums in your niche, but the best thing is – it doesn’t cost you a penny or require any effort on your behalf!

Not convinced? You can even browse through existing goboardz forums to see them in action before you sign up, check them out and if you like the look of them apply for your very own today! Version II of the GoBoardz system is currently underway which promises improved functionality enhancements as well as visual web-2.0-type updates.

I logged in to my Yahoo! Messenger and this window popped out.

Yahoo is introducing Yahoo! Messenger for the Web (beta) which has a great feature I’ve been waiting. You can now save your message history to Yahoo’s servers which mean you can access your IM conversation history from any place. Pretty neat huh.

Camshare, LLC has recently released Camfrog 1.3, a video conferencing software which enables Mac and Windows users to start and participate in large multi-user audio/video conferences.

With Camfrog you don’t need expensive video conferencing equipment like Polycom to start a video conference. Camfrog works behind firewalls, wireless networks, and routers, using live streaming audio and video with live webcam user directory to make it easier for users to meet new people. Users with a fast connection like broadband internet connections — such as DSL or cable internet, can host their own multi-user videoconference for free.

Camfrog requires either Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 server, Windows 2000, Mac OS X. I’m afraid it wont run on older Operating Systems like Windows 95, 98, ME, or 3.1.

One thing I don’t like about chatting online is that you can’t actually tell what your chat mate is really feeling. That’s why chat applications like Yahoo! Messenger or Yahoo! Web Messenger and MSN / Windows Live Messenger provide chatters a way to express their feelings through images called emoticons. There are numerous sites out there where you can download emoticons for free. I use Windows Messenger most of the time because most of my friend use it. We usually get bored with all the default images and emoticons installed, so i recommend you get your free MSN emoticons from www.aim-smileys.net. You can get thousands of free emoticons from there.