Hey Everybody,

Roy, our dedicated product manager/serial blog poster, has moved onto a new adventure in his life!

Roy was with us from day 1(!!!) and he will be greatly missed around the office (and around the blog…).

This is a great oportunity to wish him ALL the best in his new venture.

So to sum things up - Goodbye, good luck and good riddance!

   Roy.

As for me, my name is Ariel, i’ve been with SweetIM for 2 years now, in the marketing department. 
I’ll keep you guys posted on new & exciting things SweetIM has for you and all kinds of different cool stuff!

As you know, this blog is for you! Please feel free to ask/suggest/complain/throw crazy ideas/share/etc on anything! We are always looking to improve and innovate, and with your help we can make SweetIM better.

Have a great day everybody, Talk to you soon!   

Ariel.

Hi all,

We have released the very first SweetIM Firefox theme on Mozilla site:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10277

The theme will make your firefox look like this:

(Don’t worry - your address box won’t get so small… it all depends on the icons you already have).

Cool, isn’t it ?

Now all you have to do is simply go to this website (using your firefox…) and click on “add to firefox”.

when asked for email address and password, you’ll have to create a new account and login with your email and password…

If for some reason you don’t like it - you can always remove it from firefox’s addon manager (”Tools” –> “Add-ons” –> “Themes”) .

Enjoy,

Robert

Hello SweetIMers,

Yesterday a new release candidate version of Windows Live Messenger 2009 was released (with build number 14.0.8050.1202).

While this might be good news for all you messenger lovers out there, it is also bad news, cause unfortunately, SweetIM does not support this build !

For some technical reasons that we’re still trying to figure out - our bar doesn’t appear inside the messenger chat window at all.    The only thing one can do with this version is receive content sent by friends with SweetIM.

Since we only started investigating this issue, we estimate that it will take us a rather long time to fix it, and so our for people who can’t do without SweetIM (I guess most of you…) is to stick with older versions of messenger till further notice !

Right now this is in top priority for us and we’re using all of our resources to solve it.  Your patience is needed! This was expected to happen as things can change when a product (Windows Live Messenger) goes from beta to release candidate.

In the meantime, we suggest you remove your current Windows Live Messenger version and then install the previous one, which is supported by SweetIM: http://get.live.com/WL

Robert

Hi folks,

I know we haven’t been with you for the past few days and you were probably wondering what’s been keeping us so busy…

Well we’re working around the clock on this new version we’re about to release.

I’m sure a lot of people will thank us for this version as I know many of Messenger Plus’ users have had some compatability issues with SweetIM, and many ICQ users have requested SweetIM for ICQ in the past !

That’s it for today,

just wanted to keep you posted.

Roy

I think the emoticon that best describes my mood today is this:

This is how I feel after the 4738294.5 meetings we had today.

But looking on the bright side (that’s what I usually do in life) - At least some good stuff will come out of these meetings !!

I can’t tell you about the good stuff yet, but trust me you’ll be the first to hear !

Roy.

Hi everybody,

I’ve added new links on the sidebar of the blog.

Under “Help SweetIM” you’ll find links to past posts regarding beta-tests and feedback.  So whenever we’re looking for beta testers or whenever you have a new feedback or suggestion you’ll have a quick link to the relevant posts.

Roy

I’ve been working on SweetIM for over 3 years now, and to be honest - never thought I’ll need to call in sick.  But I guess there’s first time for everything - I woke up this morning with high-fever and one big head ache and actually considered going to work today (but decided not to do so after failing to get out of bed…)

Fortunately I’m feeling better now and probably be fine by tomorrow morning.

Days like this make me appreciate technology and remind me not to take for granted things like wi-fi and a laptop, which enable me to work (and to write this post) from my own bed at home.

Roy