AirTalkr 2007 is a new desktop-based IM aggregator running on air. Yes. Air!
AIR stands for Adobe Integrated Runtime and is a “cross-OS runtime environment for building Rich Internet Applications, using Flash, Flex, HTML and Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application”. Just install the runtime (PC or Mac) and AirTalkr is ready for its first flight.
The newcomer, currently still in beta, claims “it is not just an IM” and tries to surpass the big five services it supports (AOL, ICQ, Yahoo!, Windows Live & Google) by tapping into the social web 2.0. Through its Aircards feature, it allows you to keep up with your buddy’s activity on some of the web’s most popular destinations: Flickr, MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn, and Twitter. A contact’s blog doesn’t need to be on Spaces, but can be anything with an RSS feed output. Admittedly, the Aircards system still has its flaws (unreliable auto-detection and no manual adding/editing of sources), but it’s so much more interesting than Windows Live Messenger’s plain contact cards. AirTalkr’s tabs also integrate Flickr and YouTube, potentially more interesting than any of your current Messenger tabs.
One cool feature obviously doesn’t make a killer app. And AirTalkr is still in its infancy, lacking support for even a basic thing like emoticons, and popping out scary errors (which didn’t appear to break anything though). Then again, features like chat history and word wheel contact searching -which took Microsoft years to implement- are already there. Ehm… even tabbed conversations! So props by all means for developer Hu Shunjie!
Download: Air Talkr 0.35 Download: Adobe Air Runtime
View: Air Talkr Home Page
Source: Mess.be
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