We all know how annoying it can be to chat using the notification bar at the bottom of the browser when visiting Facebook. Every time you navigate to a new page you have to wait for the Facebook chat bar to load again.

Now you can use Facebook chat without even opening a browser. Again this time it was done using Pidgin, just like the Mxit Pidgin plugin you now get the Facebook chat plugin for Pidgin.

The Facebook chat plugin for Pidgin connects to the Facebook chat IM service without the need of an API key. Currently the plugin can log into the Facebook servers, grab the buddy list, send/receive messages, add/remove friends, receive notifications, show your inbox count, organises friend lists/groups, search for Facebook friends and set your Facebook status all from the comfort of your desktop.

You can get hold of the Facebook Pidgin plugin here to use Facebook chat from your desktop.

WordPress just released their WordPress for Android application to the Android Market for download. WordPress for Android will enable bloggers to manage their blogs while on the go.

If you are used to the popular wpToGo application for Android you will feel right at home with WordPress for Android as it was built on the foundation of wpToGo. WordPress for Android is open source, if you would like to contribute to the project please visit dev.android.wordpress.org

Features include:

• Manage multiple blogs
• Comment moderation and ability to reply to comments
• Create and edit posts as well as manage categories, tags and photos
• Create and edit pages
• Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar

Here is a short video demonstrating WordPress for Android

To get WordPress for Android search the Android Market for WordPress and install the application published by Automattic, Inc.

If you have a barcode scanner install just scan the barcode below.

Recently I started working on my own project called TweSMS, the ideas was spawned by Rafiq Phillips after there was a demand for twitter users outside the US to receive their tweets via SMS.

After I started working on TweSMS I eventually saw the great potential there still is in the mobile market, especially in Africa. Think about it this way, how many people own a cellphone? Vodacom reported in their latest financial report that they have 40.5 million mobile users, now this is just Vodacom and what if you add MTN into the equation who dominates the African market. I would say we can look at a figure like 100 million mobile customers in Africa.

Now ask yourself the question, how many of them doesn’t have access to Internet? I would say 90% if not more. This just shows you how much potential there still is in the mobile market.

I am surely starting to shift my attention from web start-ups to mobile start-ups, or at least something that combines the two. In fact I already have plans for a new mobile service in the education arena that involves SMS messaging.

If you have plans or dreams to try and make it big, try shifting it towards the mobile market as there are still plenty of undiscovered opportunities in the market.

If you would like to stay up to date on whats happening in the Mobile Arena check out WebAddiCT(s);

If you haven’t heard of TweSMS, its my new sideline project to bring SMS notifications to countries that twitter does not support for their own SMS notification system.

TweSMS is currently undergoing some major changes week by week with a few testers helping me out. TweSMS currently supports receive of DMs and Metions. Twitter users have the option to either receive all DMs or Mentions or either or only if it is from certain twitter friends.

I’m proud to introduce the latest feature for TweSMS, the Clickatell Gateway. Users can now use their own Clickatell accounts for SMS delivery. To setup a Clickatell gateway do the following.

1. Log in at Clickatell
2. Go to Manage My Products
3. From the Add Connection drop down choose HTTP
4. Enter TweSMS for name
5. Choose HTTP GET from Callback Type
6. Enter a Username
7. Enter a Password
8. Click Submit
9. Log in at TweSMS
10. Go to Clickatell API Settings
11. Enable use own Clickatell account
12. Enter your settings you set up above and save

If you have any problems getting this working please contact info@twesms.com or @TweSMS via twitter.