There’s a lot going on in the Chatsum lab right now. We recently released live links into the chat stream making it easier to follow people around the web. We’ve tightened up the server and installed caching engines all over the place ready to take on more users. Some exciting features are being added to the member profile pages, the OS X widget is now at internal beta stage and we’re about to start on the user blocking code.

Throw the new puppy on the left into the mix and you get a faster turnaround on your member page IE compatibility testing and a decent enough machine for us to start developing an IE native version of Chatsum. Virtual PC just wasn’t doing it for us anymore.

As if all that wasn’t enough we’ll also be moving this site to a different server and releasing a version of the extension compatible with the latest version of Flock as soon as we can.

Phew! Anything else? Oh yeah, a user preference to default to page or site mode.

I’ve just posted some ‘in use’ screenshots over on Flickr. We’ll be using this set to quickly publish pictures to thoughout the development of Chatsum. Take a look:

http://flickr.com/photos/imgeorge/sets/1794198/

Just in case you didn’t believe the banner on our homepage saying that the OS X Chatsum Widget was on the way, we thought we’d give you a tantalising preview.

The Widget is currently number two on the priority list, second only to acquiring a decent number of beta testers so the quicker you sign up, the quicker you’ll get a Safari compatible version of Chatsum.