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Well I know this isn’t new news, but I just discovered it. So I’m doing the favour of passing the bacon around and whoever who does not know about this, you’ll be glad to know it’s a great bite!

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The Adobe AIR Developer Derby had officially closed on September 5. Although I’ve yet to take a detailed look around the community for projects that were submitted for it, I believe that this project is worthy to take a serious look.

AirTalkr is an Instant Messaging(IM) client which aggregates other IM services like MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, AOL and ICQ. In addition, it has the ability to connect to Flickr to search and browse for photos, and YouTube to watch videos.

While the aforementioned sounds like regular features that many other IM services may provide, AirTalkr comes bundled with a (killer) feature that other services does not provide. It introduces the AirCard, which is a profiling system that allows you to read your buddies’ updated Twitter messages and blog entries, see their Flickr photos, and view their profile on social networking websites like MySpace and Friendster! Wow what a mouthful!

So why is that great? Well, through using the AirCard, I have updated information of my buddies, and more importantly, I discovered more details of their information on this vast Web 2.0 world, all in the same place! Now that’s something that money can’t buy, because it’s free!

With that, I term AirTalkr as a serious contender for this competition. It’s obvious that a lot of thought and love went into the development of this project, and with such a breakthrough feature of the AirCard, I expect many other IM services to mimic.

Try it now!

And so it ends! In fact Coding Monkey Month (CMM) had ended nearly a week already! Ok I’ve been lazy or should I say, too busy to blog about it. There’s a new set of stuff to be implemented at work, so yeah, time was strictly kept for work.

I had probably set too high expectations before the start of CMM, so was a bit disappointed when all things planned did not come to fruition. Was I over ambitious? hmm.. On the overall, I guess I’m still satisfied. Did a couple of new features in the blog module, couple of bug fixes, UI enhancements, refactored a bunch of codes, and experimented with yet some other new stuff.

There’s still lots of room for improvement though, and I’m definitely looking forward to target those areas. Till the next month when official requirements aren’t tight, I shall start another Coding {insert random animal here} Month!