We’re very exited to announce an official partnership between eBuddy and AOL! This means we can now use all kinds of cool features from AOL to be integrated in the eBuddy Messengers.

This is all part of the OpenAIM initiative. Some interesting highlights:

Needless to say we’re very excited with the decision of AOL to go open, it will open up a lot of opportunities for us, so stay tuned to eBuddy.

This morning we got the scare of our life, as dozens of police, ambulances and fire trucks raced by our office we found out that the building next to our friday evening hideaway (a local bar called P. King) was on fire.

Onno was quick to take a snapshot with his mobile phone:

Hopefully no-one was actually injured in this fire

Our first eBuddy Mobile version on m.ebuddy.com has been out there already for three years. We have seen many of you chatting with this version on your mobile phone, PSP, Playstation3, Nintendo DS, the Wii, iPhone, iPod Touch…you name it

Today we launched a complete new version, built from the ground up to offer you the best chat experience on any mobile device, without having to install anything. Since it’s completely new, we decided to rename it from eBuddy Mobile Internet version to eBuddy Lite Messenger. Why we made a complete new version?

This eBuddy Lite Messenger version allows you to login all your accounts at once. Chat with your friends from all your MSN, Yahoo, AIM, and Google Talk accounts in one single buddy list! We also added Google Talk so you now also can reach those friends on your mobile.

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Ryan Joseph from the Dastardly Report spend a day using only the new eBuddy Web Messenger. We’re very happy to report he really liked it, favouring it over other web clients.

Here are some snippets from his review:

Ebuddy was actually my favorite of all three programs I tested. It was the only one that didn’t try to simulate the desktop environment and did its own thing. When you first go to the page, you can select one of 5 instant message systems, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, and MySpace Messenger. This was the only one of the three I tested that supported MySpace.

I honestly didn’t have any problems with ebuddy. It was very fast, very smooth, and easy to use. To sign into more than one account at a time, just click the wrench at the top, then accounts.”

Ebuddy is the only one of the three I tested that I can actually see myself using on a semi-regular basis when I’m away from my computer. I really liked it.

To read the full review, head on over to the Dastardly Report blog. Or just jump in and try to new eBuddy Web Messenger for yourself and see how you like it!

Our new buddy Halovidnoob has made another review, this time of our latest product: the eBuddy Web Messenger Beta. Seems to go down much better than the previous version, good to be making progress!

Okay, JPEGs should just work as an avatar picture… Seems we need to do a bit more work there!

Our goal is to provide Web and Mobile Messaging, for Everyone Everywhere. With the launch of our latest versions for Web, Mobile and PSP, we are constantly improving the availability of our service worldwide. eBuddy users come from all over the world; from the Vatican to Tajikistan and from Micronesia to Antarctica.

Users from over 240 different countries and regions login to eBuddy to stay in touch with their friends and relatives. To make the use of eBuddy as convenient as possible, we receive some highly appreciated help of some very enthusiastic translators translating eBuddy into their own languages.

At this moment the following languages are availalbe: اللغة العربية, Deutsch, Español, Français, Indonesia, Italiano, Magyar, עברית, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Português, Português Brasil, Русский’, Română, Slovensko, Suomi, Svenska, Türkçe, Tiếng Việt, 汉字. More languages are currently under way, i.e. Chinese (trad), Filipino, Thai, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Galician, Bosnian, … (click here to see the full list).

On behalf of the entire eBuddy Team, we would like to thank all of our current translators (see the contributors list) for their help to translate eBuddy into their own language. We are sure that many will enjoy using their favorite IM program in their own language! Because we would like to offer eBuddy in your own language as well, we could use your help with translating eBuddy in more languages.

If you are interested in helping us translate eBuddy, please contact us by mail: translation@ebuddy.com

If you speak Dutch, this little video might be entertaining: eBuddy’s Arthur de Groot was interviewed by TV4B.

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Today we released a new version of our Multi Network Beta. By popular demand, and to follow up on our quest to make the Beta into a non-Beta, this iteration we emptied our guns on Conferencing (a.k.a Groupchat).

The actual feature is pretty straightforward, you can now start group chats with all your buddies that are on the MSN, Yahoo or AIM networks. This means you can start a MSN groupchat, a Yahoo groupchat or an AIM groupchat, not one with mixed contacts.

We have added some other nifty features like being able to give a group chat a name, so that you can find it easily, and being able to filter contacts when you invite them.

Credit where credit is due, bigup to our UE Expert the G-Man, conferencing looks awesome! ;) 

As I like to keep it short and snappy, go ahead and try it for yourself.

Like announced below, we just released a brand new PSP version. It also works with Sony’s newly released PSP Slim. Since you can hookup the Slim to a TV, you can now also chat on your TV screen from the couch at home!

The Slim seems to be selling very well, according to PSP World, part of the GameFlavor Network, sales are up 400% since it has been available! We finally managed to get one here at the office today Availability here in Amsterdam shops hasn’t been too good… Many of you guys already have it?

Every month we are seeing more and more users chatting with our Mobile Internet version on a Playstation Portable. Therefore, we decided to develop a brand new version, specially designed for the PSP…… and we just released it!

You can use the PSP version to chat with all your MSN / AIM / Yahoo! / Google Talk buddies, in one single buddy list. It has full emoticon support and is available in English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Magyar, Italiano, Arabic, Nederlands, Português and Pt. Brasileiro. More translations will be added soon.

To check it out, just point the browser of your PSP to:

m.ebuddy.com

This version is in beta, so please let us know what you think on feedback@ebuddy.com.

Chat on!
Vincent