Friday, December 14, 2007

Simkl Keeps Record of Your IM Conversations Online

A new service called Simkl History Saver, still in private beta, will keep a running log of all your instant messaging conversations and allow you to access that log via the service’s website wherever you go. Simkl currently only works with desktop IM clients (albeit many of them, such as AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ - see the full list on the homepage). Setup is fairly simple, although it could be a little intimidating for the technically illiterate. You just need to sign up for Simkl and change your desktop client’s connection settings to use a certain proxy server. The term “proxy server” could cause some eyes to glaze over, but it’s really just as easy as setting up an email account in Outlook. Once configured, Simkl will record all of your conversations and store them on their servers. Just head to history.im and sign in whenever you want to check them. The service can track conversations from multiple IM networks and multiple computer installations all in one place. If you ever want to delete message history, you can do that as well. The company assures us that it is serious about your data’s privacy and it never asks for passwords to your accounts.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/13/simkl-keeps-record-of-your-im-conversations-online/

http://www.simkl.com/

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