The best way to meet people while surfing

Yep, it's true, there really are millions and millions of people out there surfing the Internet. The reason you couldn't see or talk to them until now is because they've been hiding behind a huge pile of fibre optic cables. ...Kiiiidding!

No, the real reason you can't see your fellow Internauts is that you need a special program that makes them visible on your computer screen. That's what oceanfree.net Instant Messenger does. With its people-finding "radar", oceanfree.net Instant Messenger shows you who's surfing on the same site as you - or on any other website - at this very moment. All you have to do is click on any person icon, open a message window, and start chatting. With oceanfree.net Instant Messenger, a world of new friends is just waiting for you to say "hola!"

Plus, it's a snap to send files or URLs with oceanfree.net Instant Messenger. Online or offline, in any language, oceanfree.net Instant Messenger leaves all other communication tools in the dust.

oceanfree.net Instant Messenger 3.0: Optional automatic pop-up of incoming messages.
To have your messages pop open when they arrive, instead of displaying the flashing notification icons, select this option from Tools -> Messages.

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Face pictures and details cards

Every oceanfree.net Instant Messenger member surfing the Internet is represented by a face picture of their choosing, which you can see when you mouse-over the people icons in the People Finder. Right-click on any of the faces, and you can view the Details Card of any oceanfree.net Instant Messenger member, where they've listed all the information about themselves that they want other members to know, including gender, age, country, languages, interests, occupation, zodiac, and marital status. Like what you see? Click on the Talk. button. A message window opens, and you can start chatting up somebody who has no idea what you look like or how fast you eat!

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Find people using oceanfree.net Instant Messenger's search engine

oceanfree.net Instant Messenger members of all ages and with specific interests can be found in any geographical location you want. Use oceanfree.net Instant Messenger's search engine to find exactly the person you want to meet; put together a group with a common interest, like Olympic sports; or get online to practice your Italian with a businessman from Rome.

Find fish-lovers; meet musicians; trade recipes with Russians. What have you always wanted to do? The possibilities are limited only by your own fears and insec - er...imagination.

oceanfree.net Instant Messenger 3.0:
Search for other users by nickname, email, and username Finding users you've met before just got a whole lot easier. Plug in their oceanfree.net Instant Messenger ID number, if you've got it, or their nickname, email address, or real (as registered) name. A full list of search results will be displayed.

Voice chat capability
Now your friends can hear your voice too, assuming you've got the requisite hardware (sound card and microphone).

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Recent contacts and friends list

oceanfree.net Instant Messenger keeps a private list for you of people you've recently been in contact with, as well as a Friends List, so you'll always know if people you've added are currently online. That way, you're never more than a click away from communicating with that person again. Or not.

oceanfree.net Instant Messenger 3.0:
Optional history pane in message window
In case you get amnesia, click on the History button to check previous correspondence with that person. The new version of oceanfree.net Instant Messenger is set to automatically display recent history in an extra pane above your regular message window. If desired, this option can be turned off (from Preferences), to return to the simple message window.

Friends list in separate, resizable window
Wow, it's detachable and dockable! Minimize oceanfree.net Instant Messenger while keeping only your Friends List on your desktop, make it any size you want, and dock it at the side of your screen. Finally, independence!

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ICQ and AIM compatibility

For people who have already accumulated a list of ICQ or America Online Instant Instant Messenger buddies, oceanfree.net Instant Messenger adds them to your Friends List with one simple operation. This way, you easily communicate via oceanfree.net Instant Messenger even with those friends who aren't running oceanfree.net Instant Messenger ... and you never need to launch ICQ or AIM again. If you already have oceanfree.net Instant Messenger Instant Messenger installed, go to our download page to add latest versions of the AOL & ICQ interoperability plug-ins. To learn more about oceanfree.net Instant Messenger's commitment to connectivity between messaging platforms, go to the interoperability main page.

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Control your visibility and share your mood

oceanfree.net Instant Messenger 3.0:
Friends-Only Visibility Mode
Now you can choose to be visible only to users on your Friends List. This means you can chat with a friend without being interrupted by incoming messages from other users, no matter where you're surfing.

Plus, if somebody's making a pest of himself, all you have to do is hit the Ignore User button, and poof - he's gone (well, the poor guy still exists, but only on your Ignore List and in his dreams).

oceanfree.net Instant Messenger has other ways to help you express your individuality: One is the mood icon, with which you can select from a variety of options, from "indifferent" to "flirtatious" to "depressed". The other is the intentions icon: Tell people if you're here to make small talk, find romance, or be surprised.

Go ahead: Re-create your state of mind!

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Firewall Connectivity

If you are working in a networked environment and behind a HTTP Proxy, no problem, oceanfree.net Instant Messenger works behind Firewalls too.

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Website popularity in real time

Want to know where the action is? With one click, oceanfree.net Instant Messenger displays a bar graph showing all the sites members are viewing right now, with the hottest sites at the top.

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Chat room on every site

Wherever you're surfing, there's no need to be lonely tonight. Site-specific chat is just a click away, right on the oceanfree.net Instant Messenger interface. And you can leave that chat window open on your screen while you join the chat on another site. In fact, you can chat-hop all night if you're feelin' in the mood.

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Note posting

As long as you're online, you can leave notes posted on any site you like, just waiting for someone else to come surfing along and see what you've said. 'Course, once you go offline, those notes will disappear like footprints in the sand.

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Website directory by topic

One of oceanfree.net Instant Messenger's most exciting features is its awesome topic-based website directory covering 10,000 subjects. Meticulously compiled by professional editors, this unique search engine is unmatched in its thoroughness, and is especially valuable when you need information on a particular subject fast - in almost any language.

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oceanfree.net Instant Messenger homepager

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Content channel

The oceanfree.net Instant Messenger interface has a mini-browser window that can display streaming media or other content. Future versions of oceanfree.net Instant Messenger will include several channels from news, entertainment and business providers, as well as information from some of oceanfree.net Instant Messenger's co-branding partners.

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Privacy

Every oceanfree.net Instant Messenger user gets an ID number when they register. If you don't want to be found easily by others, you can hide this ID, but you can also put any users you choose on your Ignore List, so that no messages from them come through to you.

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Co-branded community features

oceanfree.net Instant Messenger has co-branding partnerships with many companies who each have their own designer versions of oceanfree.net Instant Messenger. Users who download oceanfree.net Instant Messenger from these partners will be able to distinguish between other users of the co-brand community and the rest of the oceanfree.net Instant Messenger community, both while surfing and when receiving messages. And when searching for people (in a website or among all oceanfree.net Instant Messenger users), co-brand users can choose to find only people from the co-brand community.

• Co-Surfing - Users can lead individuals and groups of users from site to site. The user can invite friends and users who share similar interest to a co-surfing session. While surfing together users can use text chat, voice chat, exchange files or conduct any other communication as available through oceanfree.net Instant Messenger.
• Customized Community Details - Enabling intra-community search functionality. Based on the specific licensee configuration, licensee's users will be able to fill in 5 additional demographic details about themselves, which are unique to their community. They will then be able to use them to perform unique search within their community.
• Site Representatives - Enabling users to become site or page representatives. This way they will be able to easily contact users visiting their site, to communicate with them through their own chat room, etc. The representative is shown using a different icon, thus allowing other users to trust the information they receive from this user. A user browsing an E-commerce site that has a representative, is able to approach the representative with questions while surfing the site.
• Plug-In Functionality - Users are able to opt-in for different types of plug-ins that will extend the core functionality of oceanfree.net Instant Messenger. Examples of plug-ins could be video chat, PC-2-Phone, games, tickers and more. Installing a plug-in adds items to the messaging and oceanfree.net Instant Messenger menus.
• Superior Messaging Functionality - fine-tuning the unrivalled oceanfree.net Instant Messenger experience
  • Advanced Friends List Functions (friend groups management, incoming message indication on each friend, notification when a friend becomes online)
  • Easy (one click) "friend request" capability when searching for users
  • Incoming message are saved to hard disk until being read, to enable users to logout without loosing unread messages.
  • Enhanced Message History Archive
  • Private multi-user Chat Rooms
  • Public Chat Rooms on individual Web Pages
  • Expanded User Status Indication (various status indications such as "busy" and "be right back", manual setting of status)
  • Friends list saved on server and accessible from any desktop
  • Easy capability to transfer a user from one computer to another without the need to copy any files between computers.