Between your iGoogle page, your MySpace or Facebook accounts, your Mac or Vista desktop and even your iPhone, your computing life has a lot of room for widgets. Clever Hippo, an app and widget search site, could make it easier to find add-ons for all those platforms and more. The site lets searchers vote widgets up or down, grab search-specific RSS feeds and search from an iPhone-optimized version. If you can admit that you’re a regular widget tweaker, you could save yourself some time by getting your fixes in one place.
Clever HippoSkype VoIP services will be offered to MySpace IM users under a new deal between MySpace and Skype’s owner, eBay.
The Age wrote up the deal which will see MySpaceIM offer free voice chats between MySpace and Skype users, and let MySpace users link their profiles and photos to their Skype accounts.
The MySpaceIM with Skype software will be available for download in November. The Age reported that “In addition to free PC-to-PC communications, it will support Skype’s fee-based services like SkypeOut (for calls to landlines), SkypeIn (a local phone number allowing users to receive calls from landlines or mobile phones), voicemail and call forwarding.”
The story says MySpace has around 25,000 local users for its IM application – a figure I have to admit struck me (a MySpace newbie) as quite high. Have you used MySpaceIM, or would the new Skype features tempt you do so? Let us know in comments.
