We have just released a new version of 8hands which includes the following fixes:

• Fixed RSS favicon handling when the RSS favicon is a broken link.

• Fixed multiple events bug from RSS.

• Fixed missing credentials from Flickr bug.

• Fixed multiple events from Youtube bug.

As always - please let us know if you'll find anymore bugs or issues regarding 8hands. We promise to take a good care of them all.

Have a nice day!

The 8hands Mega-Team :-)

We've just released 8hands update 0.8.039. The update includes bug fixes, improved performance & resolved stability issues. To make sure all is well, please restart 8hands to receive the update, or, go to our download page to get it. Enjoy!

The new 8hands version has received a lot of great reviews around the blogosphere. We told you a couple of days ago that Mashable wrote about us, but that was just the start - Erik Willumsgaard gave us a compliment, saying 8hands is more advanced than web 2.0, and is web 2.1! Selenography from the great technology blog [geek is my name] was also very sweet to us.

We thank all of you guys for the kind words, and we will keep making 8hands better, so you'll never stop loving us. As for now, we will leave you with a short summary of selenography's post. Have a great day!

"...While there are some sites (and even some surprisingly good Facebook Apps) which provide nice comprehensive lists of sites that allow you to have an online identity, they often lack RSS capabilities. So, they’re nice if you want people to find your profile there and see where else in the vast internet ether you also exist, but it’s not good for you, the user, who still has to log on to fifty zillion sites to check messages or see if anyone’s left you a comment.

In my mind, this program seems to have all of the building blocks to allow it to become the leading app in managing online identities—mainly because it does what a social aggregator should do. That is, it alerts you when someone has posted a comment about you or sent you a message. It also works like an instant messenger and lets you communicate with your friends who also have 8hands…"

Mashable.com, one of the biggest & most important web 2.0 blogs out there, wrote about our new version and said that 8hands' new tweaks "improve its overall service and make it more useful as a profile aggregating and media-sharing tool".

Of course, this isn't the first time Mashable wrote about us. Back in April, Mashable's Kristen Nicole wrote a post about us, saying "I really like the 8hands concept, layout and design", among other kind words.

Thanks Mashable. We love you too, and we can't wait to show you all the little surprises and huge add-ons we've got up our sleeves!

8hands 0.8.036 alpha version is now available for download!

Our developers are certainly working hard these days and they managed to add many superb improvements, features and bug fixes since the last public release.

One of the cool features we added is the “Flip!” Button, which was added to the 8hands IM window – It literally flips the contents of the entire chat window on demand (wow), making it more in the style of Twitter and Tumblr. We like the flipped mode so much that it is now officially the default mode of our, radically improved btw, 8hands IM window.

Note – you can always choose to "Flip!" back to the old IM window mode by clicking the "Flip!" button.

Why Flip! It, you ask?

As you already know, the 8hands chat window is not just a regular chat window - it is designed specifically to support HTML codes, so you can basically drag-and-drop any 8hands media item into the IM window and share pictures and videos with other 8hands users. We believe that the “Flip!” mode is a natural progression in these media-saturated times, kinda like the Twitter/ Tumblr feel – Typing at the top of the window instead of at the bottom so that the latest content is always placed at the top of the chat dialog.

We would love to hear what ya think about the new “Flip!” feature and the new and improved 8hands in general.
Comment here, post on the forums or send us an email to:
Info (at) 8hands (dot) com

Have a flippin' day!
Maya.

Back in da days, before the flippin feature was invented

Flippin' feature is in action!