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Join AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) buddies on the web in BrowzmiSeptember 25

Browzmi is now connected to AOL's instant messenger network so that we can join our AOL buddies on the web in Browzmi.

We can easily sign into Browzmi using our AIM login.



And we can share the web together in real time and chat with our other online AIM buddies.



And we can connect our existing Browzmi accounts to the AIM network. Just enter your AIM credentials on the Browzmi edit profile page. Then check out the Browzmi chat widget in your sidebar and you'll see your online AIM buddies.



This connection to AIM is a good preview of our plans to connect to other IM networks via Jabber so that it's really easy to

Clip and Share Images in BrowzmiAugust 7

Our icon designer finally came through yesterday and handed over the Clip icon.. so now this feature is officially completed. As you chat and do some real-time sharing in Browzmi, you can clip images from web pages to share with your friends on your feed pages. Browzmi is looking much better now that we've got images shared by everyone :)

Here's how it works. When you're on a web page in Browzmi, just select the "Clip" icon. Choose one from the images shown in the box and hit OK. The selected image will show up in your feed.



In other news.. We had a bunch of new people join us last week in response to Frederic Lardinois' ReadWriteWeb post on Browzmi. Great to meet everyone. And thanks Frederic!

And today we deployed our first iteration of AIM instant messaging integration. It's not officially completed as there are a few kinks, but you can add AIM to your chat widget via your edit profile page, or you can sign into Browzmi using your AIM login. This is a big milestone cause we're getting all our Jabber messaging established and ready for connection to other c

Social "Status" is the killer appJuly 14

Everything seems to be coming together to make social "status" the next big thing on the web. Status has already taken off in various forms (IM, Facebook, Twitter, GPS), but the big picture is now coming into focus and it looks awesome. I wanted to talk about it here on the Browzmi blog because it's shaping our thinking about how we move forward.

I'm referring to "Status" as updates on what you are doing. By social status, I mean sharing what you are doing with your friends and others. (Some people may refer to status by another label - "presence.")

There are several types of status that can be shared. The most commonly used status is "online," which enables instant messaging. But now we have other status updates to share:

• Friend status: "Travis and Artem are now friends," which drove Facebook's growth.
  
• Activity status: "What are you doing now" like we

New Browzmi friend-finder feature and other fill-ins liveJuly 8

We updated Browzmi with a few new features today. We now have a friend-finder page that allows you to search your email contacts for friends that are already Browzmi users. And the page allows you to search for users, add our Facebook app, and send out invites to join Browzmi. You can navigate to this page from the Friends tab and Surf with Friends widget.



In addition, if you are using the Browzmi Homebase Firefox extension, then you and others can see that in your profile as well as in your updates - indicated with the little house icon. Homebase allows you to surf anything in Browzmi, so it's good to let your friends know about it.



And we added in a new Explore More widget that shows the comment, rating and save updates shared by Browzmi users on the page you are visiting.

It's good to get some Browzmi discussion goingJune 29

Yesterday morning I woke up and Louis Gray had published a review on Browzmi. (It's like Louis never sleeps and his family recently doubled with new twins) So I was very pleased and thankful that Louis took the time to write about us. Thank you Louis :)

As hoped, Louis' post prompted some good surfing and chat activity at Browzmi. But more importantly, it started a conversation with some threads on Friendfeed.

A good question has come up. How is Browzmi different from the various other offerings that try to enhance web browsing with some sort of "social layer" above the web? Per some requests on Friendfeed, I want to take a stab at addressing that question out in the open.

First, it's important to define the problem that Browzmi is trying to solve. We built Browzmi so that we could chat and surf the web with our friends instead of alone. With the ability to see each other's surfing location, we can now share, discover and experience content together in real-time (synchronous sharing experience vs asynchronous).

I no longer poke around the web by myself as I'm now pretty much "surfing" with other Browzmi users whenever I am online. By surfing I do not mean co-browsing - I am not being dragged along by anot