Pibb is a great way to communicate online, it brings together the familiarity of forums, power of blogs, flexibility of email and convenience of instant messaging in one browser window. All messages are delivered in real time, then archived automatically for later search/viewing. This feature set makes Pibb ideal as a communication back-channel for conferences, for use as a support tool, or for community based private/public discussions

I have been using Pibb last two days. Even though Pibb has not picked up in terms number of users. It has the capability and features. It could be a great support tool. It can be used to support your open source software or service. Or it can be used to give one to one suggestions. If not anything it could be used as online meeting too. It has the search and save functionality.

More over it is Open Id enabled. Which means if you have a wordpress.com or AOL or livejournal.com url. Then you can just login and start communicating. It has Pibb me functionality for one to one communication.

Here is very good presentation by Simon about OpenId. It explains everything about OpenId a common user should know. Its big but very simple and direct.

You must be tired of using multiple IM clients to chat with your friends on multiple systems. If you had already known about unified IM software you would have used Trillian , GAIM or Pidgin etc. They all are installable softwares. What if you wanted to carry them on your CD or USB. You either need to go to Gaim portable or Easy Message. Easy Message of just 200kb is the smallest IM client. You can carry it even on a floppy disk (??).

The features include

• MSN style status bar notifications
• Supports ICQ, Yahoo, MSN and AOL
• POP3 mail notifications
• sound notifications
• hotmail integration
• proxy/firewall support
• international character support
• automatically import your accounts contacts and groups
• saving groups and contact list

It does not support Gtalk or Jabber. That just one -ve point. Otherwise its most suitable application to have on you USB drive.

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Chris talks about storing the passwords. He introduces to online password service called passpack. The passpack service is free. It uses AES encryption algorithm to store your passwords on their server.It has many other features like anti phishing etc.If you want to store your passwords online then this could be a good place.Follow their blog to get more info on passpak and in general secure passwords.

Stumble it button code for blogger blog give by StumbleUpon site is not updated for new blogger blog. They have the code for old blogger. The code for new blogger would change to

< a expr:href=’”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title’ title=’Stumble It’>Stumble It.</a >

You can get the standard button images here