4 days before the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Simkl released a WAP\PDA\iPhone web site for IM History Viewer. The new interface is designed specifically for the needs of mobile devices. That’s why  it contains a minimum amount of graphics and it is extremely easy to view your IM History logs from your phone.

When you visit Simkl.com or History.im, you will be automatically redirected to the lighter version of the site. This version is also available at: wap.history.im, wap.simkl.com, simkl.mobi

What are premium points and how to get them?
Premium points are rewarded for every new active user, who came to us by your recommendation, to be exact: visited a special link that you gave to your friend.

Where can I get this special link?
The URL can be found at http://history.im at the left bottom corner of the screen. Here’s an example of link:

http://im.simkl.com/bonus/9179/

How many premium points can you earn?
For each person who signs up and tests the service, you get 30 points premium. For each person who pays for the service, you get an additional 20% of all his payments, for example: if someone opened your link, tested and paid for his service for a year, you will receive 5000 points (50 days of free service).

What is the price of a premium?
1 day of free service in Simkl History = 100 PR

The easiest way to get premium points - is to send out a link to all your contacts through IM message about this kind of service and persuade to test the service.

It’s amazing that any of us get any work done nowadays, with distractions here, there and everywhere to stop us doing what we should really be doing.

But a study by Ohio State University and University of California has found other big work avoidance, instant messaging, can actually increase productivity rather than hinder it.

The report was published in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, and involved 912 people who worked at least 30 hours per week.

Results showed those who used IM procrastinated less than those that didn’t. This could have been due to the quickness and shortness of answering questions that IM allows.

Source: TechRadar

Hi,

We’re looking for technically savvy user who can help us with a good English -> Spanish translation for Simkl websites.

If you’re out there and would like to help spread Simkl in Spanish community for the upcoming Simkl.es website, please contact us. We’d love to hear from you!

About Simkl in Spanish: http://www.genbeta.com/2007/12/14-simkl-registrando-las-conversaciones-de-los-sistemas-de-mensajeria

Simkl History Saver Review [Russian by itv.by] from Vitalii Zdanevich on Vimeo.

Simkl team speaks different languages and lives in different countries. Sometimes we talk over IM and answer e-mail support requests to people from all over the world who don’t know a word in our language. But how do we do it? We’re using http://translate.simkl.com. Today we are opening this service for everyone to use. Simkl automatically translates full text from and into any of these languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Translit. A total of 291 language pairs.

For your convenience you can access this page also at t.simkl.com

We added Virual Keybord that supports almost every language.

If you would like to help us to translate Simkl interface into your language, leave a message here for future details.

We will appreciate your comments and suggestions in Simkl Forum.

Since December 2007 Simkl.com was in private beta and more than 10 000 users had a chance to participate during this beta. For many users Simkl History Saver has become a must have tool for everyday chatting thanks to its simple integration into almost any IM software for Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, BeOS, QNX, Irix, Solaris, SunOS, OS/2 and mobile devices.

During the beta Simkl used to support in full such protocols as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and limited support for MSN except Windows Live Messenger.

We are proud to announce that we can now support saving messages from Widows Live Messenger and full range of software that supports MSN protocol giving access to full range of AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MSN software to work with this service.

What’s new in Simkl:

- Support for more than 48 messaging clients, including Windows Live Messenger and iChat;

- Interactive full text search capability (now you can search your chats using an innovative way to search through all your conversations);

- Possibility to rename and delete any specific contact;

- Sort your contacts by last conversation;

- Simkl Tray http://tray.simkl.com software for history.im. Gives more ways to access your online history including the “Winkey+H” keyboard shortcut.

- New interface translations have been added.

Video Review made by Simkl user:

http://revver.com/video/658492/record-your-im-history-chats-virtually/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CH97UoMDqKs

Screenshots: http://simkl.org/2007/12/11/screenshots-from-our-users-around-the-world/

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Most of us use several computers at the same time: at home, at work, laptop and so on… This creates its own problems. For example, you can’t always read your instant messenger history from your MSN or Yahoo IM if you are on another computer at that moment. Creators of Simkl service have developed an easy solution to this problem.

With Simkl it is possible to store all your IM history on a web server from different IM’s. To make Simkl History Saver work with your IM, you need to sign up on a website and change some settings in your IM software. Simkl works with almost any IM software on every possible platform with protocols AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo.

Simkl features:

- Save IM conversations

- Backup IM contacts

- Web 2.0 style

- Access to your conversations from anywhere in the world

- Work on multiple computers and have combined history

- Easy access to viewer through history.im

By popular request we have developed a new software - Simkl Tray for history.im. Simkl Tray makes it very easy to work with your online chat history. You can find more info and download link at http://tray.simkl.com

We will appreciate your comments and suggestions in Simkl Forum.

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