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.

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.

Today Xat announced that it would soon have details on two new powers that are actively being developed; they are Stick and Countdown.

We were turned on to the new Stick power about a week ago but were understandably gagged asked not to blog about it; surprises are always good!

Since the cat is, so to speak, “out of the bag”, we will confirm and reiterate what many have already found out. Stick allows a user to create single (this is important), stick figure animations. Contrary to what we were hoping for, Stick does not allow you to create your own multi-character animations. Still, with a little ingenuity, we don’t see why you couldn’t include two or more such animations and push the creative boundaries of this new power.

Stick will be accessible via the vertical tabs located at the left of any chatbox. Just look for and click on the Games tab, then on the Stick figure.

Once open, the Stick interface will allow you to create frame by frame animations of your stick figure.

From our conversation with Xat staff, we understand that they were shooting for something that could be unique to each user. We think that they’ve done it!

Xat’s second power, Countdown, which at the moment we know nothing about, may be an answer to Xat’s own power countdown clock. That’s our educated guess!

Example:
** 500 CLEAR POWERS ** in 8 hours (22:00 UTC) Count down: http://xat.com/h?348982

We’ll have to wait and see

We were fortunate enough to be online (yeah, we don’t sleep) when Xat sent out a test version of its new Christmas power (57). All we know right now is that this power allows you to make use of 26 new Christmas themed smiles.

No news on when or where it will be released or how much it will cost.

Stay tuned!

Update: Here is the list of all Christmas smiles that we could find. These smiles can also be combined with one another (Example: (tree#bell)).

(christmas) – The official power smile

(beard)
(bell)
(bulb)
(cane)
(ches)
(elf)
(give)
(pole)
(sack)
(sball)
(scarf)
(sdeer)
(sfeet)
(sgift)
(shiver)
(skiss)
(sledge)
(slist)
(smound)
(spull)
(stock)
(tree)
(wreath)
(xb1)
(xb4)
(xday)

Update 2: Power is now on sale @ 300 xats.

In the next few hours, Xat will be releasing yet another seasonally themed power. This time around it’ll be the new “limited” Thanksgiving power (price: 150 xats).

Like (halloween) this power will also allow you to add a touch of the holiday spirit to any yellow Xat smilie.

Here are your Thanksgiving smileys: (pilgrimm) (pilgrimf) (indian) (indian2) (indian3) (chef) (dining) (eatleg) (feast).

Interested? Then be sure to keep an eye on Xat’s countdown to the Thanksgiving power release (10 per user at this moment), right here.

Happy turkey day!

Update 1: This power is now on sale!
Update 2: 800 additional Thanksgiving powers for sale. Count down: http://xat.com/h?349532 – 10 per user!
Update 3: 800 additional Thanksgiving powers for sale. Count down: http://xat.com/h?349562 – 10 per user!

Early this morning, Xat announced soon to be released “status message” (or some variation of that phrase); Xat’s next power.

Followers of this blog might recall having seen a screenshot/mockup of “Google’s” idea placed squarely on the Xatworld home page.

Turns out that Google’s idea received more than 160 votes and subsequently caught Xat staff’s attention. As such, they have decided to make the power.

We’re short on details right now, but we’ll keep you posted on exactly how it works.

Update 1 – ** 620 STATUS POWERS ** to be released. Count down is here: http://xat.com/h?349346 Buy here: http://xat.com/GetPowers 4 per user

Xat has revived and announced its soon to be released Anime power. This power which first popped up back in may then mysteriously disappeared, will include smilies, tops, hairstyles, and many accessories; 22 in all!

Unconfirmed Anime codes:

(awe)(ahhh)(comeon)(dizzy)(doh)(grin)(grump)(haira1)(haira3)(haira4)(haira5)(headband)(maniac)(pouty)(quiver)(rage)(squint)

Update 1: This power is now on sale for 300 xats and is unlimited
Update 2: More details have been posted to the Xat Anime Wiki