Starting of today, twittering from 8hands is officially one of the common ways to send updates to your twitter page. As (we hope) you already know, you can sync your 8hands tagline to your Twitter account, so that every time you change it, twitter will automatically get your update and vice versa.

The new innovation is that now, twitter will also know to mark these updates as “Updated from 8hands” just like in the picture below. We are very proud and would like to thank the nice guys at Twitter for their cooperation!

Remember you can also choose to receive your twitter updates in the 8hands' latest section. To do so, just go to the “settings” section and tick the “show twitter updates in latest” box.

Stefanos Karagos digs 8hands and posted a short nice review about us on his Anabubula blog.

Amit Agarwal from the beloved Digital Inspiration blog reads Anabubula and after reading the post he downloaded 8hands, and decided to post even longer review about us.

Goldi from the 8hands Mega Team also reads the Digital Inspiration blog and decided to post the review here as well:

"If you maintain accounts on multiple social sites (say Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace), consider using 8hands - a small Windows software that monitors your social circle and will bring some peace to your otherwise chaotic online life.

With 8hands, you’ll instantly know (via desktop alerts) when friends upload new pictures on Flickr, or there’s a new comment on your Flickr photos, or when you have private messages on Facebook or new tweets on Twitter - no need to manually check profiles on all the different websites.

Now Flock too offers similar features but 8hands, a standalone app, has two main advantages:

1. 8hands will automatically guess your top friends with whom you communicate most frequently across all social networks - so it becomes all the more simple to reach them again.

2. 8hands maintains a complete history or log of all your friend’s activity. Very useful when you are looking for Facebook messages, Flickr photos and Twitter tweets ever published by a close friend.

8hands is in alpha but worth giving a try. It’s been running in my system tray for a few hours now and am loving the notifications"

Thanks for the inspiration, digital. :)

We are thrilled to introduce to a new silly facebook app that we've been endorsing:

As you know, we at 8hands all love a good laugh, plus, we are all deeply addicted to Facebook. That's why we decided to support a cool facebook app with the brilliant name: "Your brother looks like a hammer!" the app lets you to compare your friends with an animal, an object, a jelly bear, a cucumber, or... oh, well, you get the idea.

Dovi-Dov the best Q.A man is a Guinea Pig look alike!

From the app's manifest:

"Does your sister remind you of a hamster?
Best friend lookin' like a light bulb?
Well, now's your chance to prove it!
With Your Brother Looks Like a Hammer! you can finally visually compare all your friends to their long lost twins. Just log-in, drag and drop your friends' pics next to the animal or object they most resemble, and we'll let them know!"

Lady Dania as a green cute Jelly Bear!

Snow White Alice as a Poodle

All of you naughty facebook users can click here to get the cheeky little app.
Have fun and let us know what you think of us here or there.

love,

Maya.

Our little purple octopus is all blushy now, because the great known and respected downloadsquad.com (that's us giving love back in an obvious and cute way) decided to give us some very kind words, calling 8hands an "Almost perfect desktop client for all your social networks" and emphasizing that "For a public alpha, 8hands is already a pretty darn good solution for anyone who spends all day logged into multiple social networking sites".

To them we say a huge whopping thank you! But let us assure you that we will not rest and we will not stop! We will only continue to make 8hands even better, because we believe that you all deserve a full solution for the mess that we like to call our online social life.

For now, all we can offer you is the current "almost perfect" alpha version. Download it here for free.

Hello all! How is year 2008 treating you?

We have just released a new build which fixed a CPU and memory bug that caused 8hands to slow down some systems.

If you are running 8hands at the moment, our hot-update will upgrade you to the new version. If you have 8hands installed, just start it and watch the magic happens!

If you don't have 8hands at all, the new build, alpha version 0.8.094 is now available to download.

So what are you waiting for? Let 8hands take control of your social life!