Messenger Plus! Live for Messenger Live
From: JF Jonathan Foley (5346)
Below is a posting from www.mess.be about Messenger Plus! and the pending release of Messenger Plus! Live for Messenger Live. As it states they have 10 million users and are the biggest plug-in out there for the Messenger client. And I think it's pretty safe to say that the group that uses Plus is that Internet Optimizer group that MSN likes to talk about. I know that MSN had the guy that developed this plug-in (Patchou) out to Redmond a few months ago, although I forget what the actual context of the meeting was.
I thought this might be an interesting topic for your monthly tech presentation.
Anyway, just a thought. His site is www.msgplus.net. I personally think that if his user group is part of that Internet Optimizer group, we should be supplying him with some content to help him promote and to get out name out there with this group.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.00: Sneak Feature Previewdwergs says:
First of all congratulations to Patchou and all Plus! contributors for achieving the 10 million users milestone!What does the future hold for world's favorite Messenger addon then? Well, the first Messenger Plus! Live 4.00 Beta is scheduled to be released to selected beta testers in the first week of February. "Not one feature is being recreated without being seriously improved," Patchou says on his website, "I'm still worrying if I'll be able to complete the project in time (some of the planned features may be pushed back to version 4.10) but I'm still confident you will all have some good surprises."And finally, as suggested by the title of this post, we're being offered a sneak preview at a feature that's been included in Plus! since version 1.0, but will be seriously revamped in the next, namely the chat logs. Kiss plain text goodbye, because you'll have the option to log your conversations in XHTML, fully customizable through CSS and with highly-enhanced encryption. This means your chat logs will show Winks (with thumbnails), custom emoticons and ink messages! Do I hear someone ask for a... screenshot?More news on Messenger Plus! Live as soon as we hear it![Source: Msgplus.net]
posted by Kathy Golden @
1:55 PM
Looks like an interesting client plugin -- especially that it allows users to send their own custom emoticons.