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SaKi Chat on Facebook

Posted by Nick O'Neill on July 23rd, 2007 11:58 AM
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Saki ChatThere are a number of chat applications on Facebook that I have already featured on this blog. One of the chat applications that I have seemed to overlook is SaKi IM. SaKi was the first chat application on Facebook. The application is well designed and works perfectly from within your profile. The downside of the application is that you have to invite all of your friends first. Once you add the application, it tells you which of your friends have already added the application and what their username is. I think it would be highly beneficial to automatically add my friends to be SaKi chat buddies as soon as I sign up. It kind of defeats the purpose if they need to confirm me as a friend twice (once within Facebook and once through SaKi). SaKi has just hit their tipping point and are now experiencing exponential growth on Facebook. While they currently have just over 22,000 users, their user base is growing rapidly. This may end up being one of the more popular chat applications on Facebook. There is definitely some competition among the chat applications including Meebo, Google Talk, and Chizzat. It will be interesting to see which of these apps receives widespread adoption and whether Facebook will launch their own chat application. If you want to try out a new way to chat on Facebook, go grab the SaKi instant message application.

 



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  1. Hi Nick, thanks for the review. We were just discussing making Facebook users automatically be friends on IM when they first signup to fix the "confirm me as a friend twice" inconvenience you mentioned. I'll keep you posted when the update takes place!

    Comment by Bryan — July 23, 2007 @ 8:39 am

  2. We added a "Sync My Friends Now!" button to the application to automatically add your friends to be SaKi chat buddies after you sign up. Let me know if you think of any other feature requests!

    Comment by Bryan — July 23, 2007 @ 11:02 am

  3. Hi Nick, thanks for the review. We were just discussing making Facebook users automatically be friends on IM when they first signup to fix the “confirm me as a friend twice” inconvenience you mentioned. I’ll keep you posted when the update takes place!

    Comment by Bryan — July 23, 2007 @ 12:39 pm

  4. We added a “Sync My Friends Now!” button to the application to automatically add your friends to be SaKi chat buddies after you sign up. Let me know if you think of any other feature requests!

    Comment by Bryan — July 23, 2007 @ 3:02 pm

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  6. Ok I would really like to use Saki IM and it will not let me sign up. It says "procedure call or argument was not valid" Can someone please help me with this.

    Comment by Ashli — October 9, 2007 @ 2:55 am

  7. Ok I would really like to use Saki IM and it will not let me sign up. It says “procedure call or argument was not valid” Can someone please help me with this.

    Comment by Ashli — October 9, 2007 @ 6:55 am

  8. Hi, my new office blocked all msn and yahoo chat. Will Saki works? Coz I am going crazy without msn. sigh….

    Comment by Nicky — October 15, 2007 @ 7:09 pm

  9. Hi, my new office blocked all msn and yahoo chat. Will Saki works? Coz I am going crazy without msn. sigh….

    Comment by Nicky — October 15, 2007 @ 11:09 pm

  10. Hey, I was wondering if Saki uses a standard protocol (like Jabber) that I could connect to outside of Facebook, so I could get SaKi IMs without having to keep SaKi open all the time?

    Comment by Nick — October 26, 2007 @ 1:41 pm

  11. Hey, I was wondering if Saki uses a standard protocol (like Jabber) that I could connect to outside of Facebook, so I could get SaKi IMs without having to keep SaKi open all the time?

    Comment by Nick — October 26, 2007 @ 5:41 pm

  12. cant use the gps, look what say. hope can help me

    thanks

    Server Error in '/EON/Modules/EON/Facebook' Application.

    ——————————————————————————–

    Conversion from type 'DBNull' to type 'Boolean' is not valid.

    Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

    Exception Details: System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from type 'DBNull' to type 'Boolean' is not valid.

    Source Error:

    Line 210: Dim ThumbURL, MarkerURL, FriendID As String

    Line 211: FriendID = r("UserID")

    Line 212: If r("HasThumb") Then

    Line 213: ThumbURL = photoURL & "t_" & FriendID & ".jpg"

    Line 214: Else

    Source File: D:Datasakimobile.comeonmoduleseonfacebookFB_MapFriends.aspx.vb Line: 212

    Stack Trace:

    [InvalidCastException: Conversion from type 'DBNull' to type 'Boolean' is not valid.]

    Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToBoolean(Object Value) +1240

    FB_MapFriends.GetGPSFriendsScript() in D:Datasakimobile.comeonmoduleseonfacebookFB_MapFriends.aspx.vb:212

    FB_MapFriends.LoadFriendLocations() in D:Datasakimobile.comeonmoduleseonfacebookFB_MapFriends.aspx.vb:68

    FB_MapFriends.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in D:Datasakimobile.comeonmoduleseonfacebookFB_MapFriends.aspx.vb:14

    System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99

    System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +47

    System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1061

    Comment by babbs — February 13, 2008 @ 10:18 am

  13. this damn thing sucks ass i cant even create a damn account on this piece of crap IMing thing it wont let me it keeps sayig that the Procedure call or argument is not valid and thats just bullspit. i gotta tell ya who ever created this damn thing must be pretty damn screwed in the head.

    Comment by annonamis — March 19, 2008 @ 3:54 pm

  14. this damn thing sucks ass i cant even create a damn account on this piece of crap IMing thing it wont let me it keeps sayig that the Procedure call or argument is not valid and thats just bullspit. i gotta tell ya who ever created this damn thing must be pretty damn screwed in the head.

    Comment by annonamis — March 19, 2008 @ 7:54 pm

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