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We’re light on details at the moment but Xat has designed the following group of seemingly wedding themed smiles:

(bride)(cake)(clink)(dance)(dance2)(dance3)(groom)(phat)(photo)(toast)

Could these smilies have anything to do with power 65?

As always, all smiles can be previewed on the Xatworld smiley generator page.

If a picture really is worth a thousand words, we think that this one more appropriately demonstrates the significance of Blueman than anything else.

For those that still don’t get it (err… it took us awhile too), you only need to look as far as Xat’s own tweet:

Next power is blueman, think pink only blue.

Blueman really doesn’t have anything to do with user rank. In fact, if you get a chance grab a teste, knock him over the head and drag him off if you have to, and have him/her show you what Blueman looks like next to a member pawn. The difference is subtle but it is there; Blueman being just a touch darker than member. It literally is just like Pink only Blue. Maybe this is Xat’s answer to what has seemingly always been thought of as a “girly” color (Pink). Doesn’t it make sense then, that if Pink equals Girl, that Blueman should equal Boy? Could this be the making of Xat’s first (or second) gender oriented power?

Just a thought

Update: ACKirbachu was nice enough to submit this comparision showing the difference between Blueman blue, and member blue…

Xat’s power Wiki has been updated with the following Blueman information:

Turn your pawn dark blue. When this power is enabled you will show as dark blue on the user list if you are a guest or member. NOTE: YOU MUST BE A GUEST, MEMBER OR OWNER IN $TEALTH MODE TO USE THIS POWER!

Source: http://util.xat.com/wiki/index.php/Powers

Naes, over at xatBlogs was the first to post about the new Blueman power that Xat, only minutes ago, announced on their Twitter feed. We know very little at this point; just that it appears to be like the Pink power, only Blue.

Update: Brian is currently testing Blueman and has posted a screenshot of blueman to his own blog.
Update2: Here is Blueman in all its glory (taken directly from our Big Smiley Generator (type blueman)

After an unprecedented 19 releases, available in blocks of 100 to 200 units, Tempmem has finally settled down and is now available on Xat’s powers page for a mere 15 days. Contrary to speculation, this power is now officially not limited.

This morning, about an hour ago, Xat officially announced that power 61 will be Temporary member. That power is now is testing and we should soon have more details on how exactly it works. On a similar note, Xat has also announced plans to change the way Temp Mod works.

Stay tuned for that!

Update 1 : Power 61, like tempmod, is used by private chatting a user. To “temp member” a user simply type /mb5.0 to make him a temporary member (5.0 being the number of hours). Note that with a few limitations, this power is for and can only by used by Main owners, owners, moderators and tempmods.

Limitations include and are particular to tempmods. Tempmods are able to both make temporary members (but only for one hour) and also guest any temporary members.

Just a few moments ago, Xat made the announcement that six new smiles have been added to the Costumes power.

They are: (sherlock) (prop) (grad) (dunce) (straw) (3d)

Image below:

XatBlogs.com user Kyle, was the first to pickup on Xat’s new Superkick smile.

This, more than likely has something to do with Xat’s scheduled smiley overhaul that we mentioned last year.

Here’s a partial animation of the new Superkick smile:

Leave it to xatBlogs.com users to come up with more details on DX. Viren, was witness to and posted the DX power smile and xatBlogs user Rain has an interesting screenshot of a DX power kiss.

Thank you to the both of you for contributing!

Just before the new year we posted what we thought DX might be. This morning a xatBlogs user pointed out that 42 had given the new DX power to two testers. After some observation and scrutiny on our part, we’re leaning even more now in the direction of a xat to days converter.

Here are a few more things we picked up on this morning:

1. Once the DX power is used, you lose it. This could be thought of as an ATM processing fee.

2. If you have two DX’s and you “use the process” once, you will lose DX. If you do it again, you’ll lose the other. Again, if you look at DX as a processing fee, it “fits”.

3. Asked “Are you going to sell DX” a tester replied no, because “I am spending the power”. Spending it on what? On converting xats to days maybe?

So… Any guesses?

Update: give Xatland’s DX blog post a read for more details. Xatland, headed by Brian (a Xat.com tester and longtime volunteer) has more details that probably anyone right now.