A free app that provides an IM-client-like front end to Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut, Scrapboy is a useful tool that brings the nitty gritty popular social networking sites to your desktop. The downloadable software acts as an alternative interface. Alas, the time you’ll save in not having to surf to your favorite sites is likely to be displaced by a lot of time minimizing alert windows.
It’s somewhat counterintuitive that anyone would want to bring social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut off of the Web and down to the desktop, but that’s exactly what Scrapboy does. The service provides a downloadable client that will let you use Facebook chat, see updates to friends walls and browse new photos, set Facebook reminders, and more all without having to go to Facebook through your browser.
IM-like Application Keeps Users Connected, Making Notifications Immediate and Secure
Scrapboy Digital Media Corporation announced the availability of Scrapboy, its Facebook desktop application, to users in North America. Scrapboy allows users to stay connected with their friends’ Facebook activities on their desktops and store those activities securely on the users’ computers, not a remote server.
הרשתות החברתיות כבר הפכו חלק בלתי נפרד מחייהם של לא מעט אנשים. בתקופה האחרונה נראה כי הן מתחילות לצאת מגבולות האתרים המקוריים שלהן ומציעות כלים להשתלבות באתרים אחרים. תוכנות חיצוניות מציעות גם דרכים אחרות לעקוב אחרי עדכונים מהרשתות ולהשתמש בשירותיהן, כמו חיבור לצ’אט של פייסבוק או מעקב אחרי עדכונים בלי להיכניסה…
Uma novidade está fazendo a cabeça dos “orkuteiros” fanáticos e deixando os mais reservados de cabelo em pé. Com o lançamento do Scrapboy, software desenvolvido pelos programadores israelenses Michael Benezra e Assaf Koren, os usuários do maior site de relacionamentos da rede já podem trocar scraps através de um comunicador instantâneo, similar ao MSN Messenger, sem precisar de se logar no Orkut. Até aí, tudo bem. O problema é que o programinha também deixa que os usuários tenham acesso a todos os recados escritos para seus amigos, independente destes apagarem ou não os posts
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