Seems somebody lucky has been trying out the iPhone on eBuddy! This is what our system guru found in the logs:

Mozilla/5.0
(iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/3.0 Mobile/1A517c Safari/419.3

Looks like the iPhone won’t come with a built-in multinetwork chat client, but we’re pretty sure now the iPhone will work with eBuddy

Looks like we made an impression! Messenger Stuff has written a favourable review of our Mobile Messenger Beta.

What is really really great though, is the fact they’ve also written a comprehensive tutorial, complete with pictures. Thanks guys! We owe you a beer

Right, after rolling out not one but TWO Beta releases we’ve earned a little break. So sit back, hook up ye’olde iPod and – you know what? Let’s skip the tedious Artist / Album / Playlist selection today and just HIT PLAY.

I’m curious, what do you guys get? Leave it in a comment! I’m getting Kutmah - “SOUND OF LA Megamix”.

We have just launched a new version of the eBuddy Web Messenger Beta. Thank you for all your feedback, we have put it to good use and made some changes to the design and the code. It is still very much a work-in-progress, so there will be some way to go before we put out the 1.0 release.

Contact Filter

One of the new features we’re delivering is the Contact Filter, which you can see in the screenshot. Just type in a few characters of the name of the contact you want to chat with to find them instantly! No more hunting and searching through your list of contacts to find that one guy (or girl). To see the entire list again, just delete the text in the Filter. It is instant! We are pretty sure you will love this feature.

Multiple Networks

Did you know you can access multiple chat networks at the same time? Chat with your buddies on MSN, Yahoo! and AIM, all from the same application. Click on the “plus” after your name to add more accounts. You can even have multiple accounts on the same network logged in!

Spit & Polish

Even though this Beta release is mostly stabilizing and bringing the application in line with the design we’ve made, there is already a little spit and polish going on… Try opening a couple of chat-tabs and rescaling your window for instance. This and some other stuff will be blogged about by the development team in a couple of days.

So, we’re really curious to hear what you think about this beta. If you got a Beta Account, take it for a spin, and leave us a comment!

Greetings from the eBuddy Development Team.

We have just launched a new version of the eBuddy Web Messenger Beta. Thank you for all your feedback, we have put it to good use and made some changes to the design and the code. It is still very much a work-in-progress, so please keep testing everybody!

Contact Filter

One of the new features we’re delivering is the Contact Filter, which you can see in the screenshot. Just type in a few characters of the name of the contact you want to chat with to find them instantly! No more hunting and searching through your list of contacts to find that one guy (or girl). To see the entire list again, just delete the text in the Filter. It is instant! We are pretty sure you will love this feature.

Multiple Networks

Did you know you can access multiple chat networks at the same time? Chat with your buddies on MSN, Yahoo! and AIM, all from the same application. Click on the “plus” after your name to add more accounts. You can even have multiple accounts on the same network logged in!

Spit & Polish

Even though this Beta release is mostly stabilizing and bringing the application in line with the design we’ve made, there is already a little spit and polish going on… Try opening a couple of chat-tabs and rescaling your window for instance. This and some other stuff will be blogged about by the development team in a couple of days.

So, we’re really curious to hear what you think about this beta. Take it for a spin, and please leave us a comment!

Greetings from the eBuddy Development Team.

We’ve started a Beta phase for our new Mobile Messenger !

Next to our Mobile Internet version we have developed a new downloadable application that you can install on your phone.

Why a downloadable application? Our Mobile Internet version is already used by close to 6 million people around the world and growing at a huge pace, so it doesn’t seem that there’s a need for an extra product. Plus on some phones it can be quite a hassle to download and install an app.
The main reason is because a J2ME application has some advantages that the Mobile Internet cannot deliver:

- Fast response, so you don’t need to press ‘reload’ all the time.
- Low data traffic
- Sound notification of a new message and vibration when you receive a buzz
- Much better user interface

Starting point was to develop a plain and simple multi-net application that you can use intuitively for the main thing that you want such an application for: Chat with your buddies.

We decided not to build the Swiss-army knife that does 50 things that sound good, but you will never use. We like to k.i.s.s.
This doesn’t mean that we will not add features .
Sure, there’s stuff missing, but we want you to tell us so we can make what you want.

The betas have been getting some great reviews and the feedback is coming in. The more interesting part of how the internet currently works is that we start showing up on blogs with our Betas, the ones I like best are the user created blog entries.

One of the most impressive ones so far is by Msncreative (french). He shows his readers what the new web-based beta looks like and explains the different features. Great work!

Quite the norm in our industry is to nick name releases, normally the end-user never sees this, but I didn’t want to leave it from all of you, see if you catch the pattern here; the current web-based beta is called Oberon, the previous Yahoo beta client was Titiana and the AIM beta was called Quince. These are all names from Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream‘.

Any ideas on what we should call our next beta product?

That’s it! 5000 brave early adopters are now testing our first beta release of the new eBuddy Web Messenger.

Many thanks to all beta testers for all your feedback, constructive criticism and blog posts. We really appreciate it - we cannot fix it if you don’t tell us you don’t like it. Please keep that feedback coming!

If you want to try out our new Beta please be patient – everyone will get a chance to try it out. For this round we have taken the sign-up form offline. If you have signed up already, you will get an invite for the next beta round.

Thanks again, and see you online!

That’s it! 5000 brave early adopters are now testing our first beta release of the new eBuddy Web Messenger.

Many thanks to all beta testers for all your feedback, constructive criticism and blog posts. We really appreciate it - we cannot fix it if you don’t tell us you don’t like it. Please keep that feedback coming!

If you want to try out our new Beta please be patient – everyone will get a chance to try it out. For this round we have taken the sign-up form offline. If you have signed up already, you will get an invite for the next beta round.

Thanks again, and see you online!

People are picking up on our two beta releases (”picking up” is quite an understatement, actually!) and we’ve made a headline post on GigaOm with our Mobile Beta. If you haven’t signed up already for our first beta round, you better hurry up! The first round is closing much sooner then even we expected…