Name	Paltalk Messenger |
License	Proprietary |
Logo
Caption	The GDS Sidebar sits on the user's desktop and displays relevant information.
Developer	Barry 99. |
Latest release date	August 4, 2010 |
Latest preview version	Version 9.8 Build 328
Operating system	Microsoft Windows

Paltalk Messenger, or simply referred to as Paltalk, is an Internet chat service that allows users to communicate via instant messaging, voice and video chat. It offers thousands of chat rooms and the ability for users to create their own virtual chat room on any topic and category. Paltalk Messenger is a downloadable software application that is currently only available for Windows. Paltalk Messenger is available in two formats: Paltalk Messenger and PaltalkExpress.

Paltalk, including all of its programs, is owned by AVM Software, which is a privately held company founded in 1998 and based in New York City, NY. It also owns and operates HearMe, a video and voice-enabled web conferencing service that allows users to conduct group meetings. Paltalk became popular after Firetalk, an earlier voice/music chat program, became unable to maintain operation due to a lack of adequate funding.

Paltalk Mobile

Paltalk Mobile is a mobile client for the BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android.

Paltalk Express

PaltalkExpress is a free web based flash application which can be accessed within any Internet browser.. It has also been featured as one of the most popular communication apps in the Google Chrome Web Store.

Shows

Paltalk produces a number of original programs for its PaltalkScene platform including Stevedtrm's 911 Truthers commentary in Mainstream Politics, News Talk Online, Hollywood Now with Joanne Colan and MusicScene. The hosted shows feature celebrities, politicians, musicians and entertainers who are able to interact live with the viewers through video chat.

Paltalk Video Chat Widget

Paltalk has a widget called Paltalk Video Chat Widget that was released May 12, 2009. It allows a website visitor a view into Paltalk rooms, view text and video. Users can now text-chat directly from the widget.

HearMe

HearMe, acquired by Paltalk in 2001, and re-launched as a product in 2007, provides desktop voice and video conferencing in a scalable manner, allowing up to 2,000 simultaneous participants in each meeting "room".

Its capabilities include built-in VoIP, Desktop Sharing and Video

Patent lawsuits

Paltalk have recently taken up a series of patent lawsuits against MMO developers claiming they were infringing US patents 5,822,523 and 6,226,686 "Server-group messaging system for interactive applications."

After being encouraged by an out of court settlement Microsoft for an undisclosed sum in 2009, paltalk moved on to smaller companies such as SOE, Blizzard Entertainment, NCsoft and Turbine.

However in late 2010, Jagex game studios successfully defended against such a lawsuit. Jagex CEO made the following statement "It is exceedingly unfortunate that the U.S. legal system can force a company with a sole presence in Cambridge, UK to incur a seven-digit expense and waste over a year of management time on a case with absolutely no merit," he went on to say that Jagex "will not hesitate to vigorously defend our position against any patent trolls who bring lawsuits against us in the future.".

The judge's ruling only resolved Jagex's case.

See also

Instant messaging

Comparison of instant messaging clients

InSpeak Communicator

Patent troll

References

Category:On-line chat Category:Android software Category:Videotelephony Category:Internet properties established in 2009 Category:2009 establishments in the United States

Name	Jill Scott
Background	solo_singer
Born	April 04, 1972
Origin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre	R&B;, soul, neo soul, jazz, spoken word
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, poet, actress
Years active	1999–present
Label	Hidden Beach
Url	www.missjillscott.com

Jill Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American soul and R&B; singer-songwriter, poet, and actress. In 2007, Scott made her cinematic debut in the films Hounddog (as Big Mama Thornton) and in Tyler Perry's feature film, Why Did I Get Married? That year, her third studio album, , was released on September 25, 2007. She has won three Grammy Awards. She also appeared in the lead role of the BBC/HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

Early life

Scott grew up an only child in a North Philadelphia neighborhood, raised by her mother, Joyce Scott, and her grandmother. She indicated in an interview with Jet Magazine that she had a happy childhood and was "very much a loved child". Scott was raised a Jehovah's Witness and attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls. After graduating, she attended Temple University while simultaneously working two jobs. She studied secondary education for three years and had planned to become a high school English teacher, but after spending time as a teacher's aide, disillusionment with the teaching profession set in causing her to drop out of school.

Prior to breaking through the music industry, Scott worked at a variety of jobs, including a number of retail positions and stints at a construction site and an ice cream parlor. She remains close to her mother and grandmother who is nicknamed Blue Babe. Jill currently resides in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey.

Music career

Scott began her performing career as a spoken word artist, appearing at live poetry readings to perform her work. She was eventually discovered by Amir "?uestlove" Thompson of The Roots. ?uestlove invited her to join the band in the studio. The collaboration resulted in a co-writing credit for Scott on the song, "You Got Me." In 2000, Erykah Badu and The Roots won a Grammy for best rap performance by a duo or group for "You Got Me", and Scott debuted as an artist during a Roots live show, singing as original artist/singer of the song. Subsequently, Scott collaborated with Eric Benet, Will Smith, and Common, and broadened her performing experience by touring Canada in a production of the Broadway musical Rent.

Scott was the first artist signed to Steve McKeever's 'Hidden Beach Recordings' label. Her debut album, Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 was released in 2000. She experienced some notice and chart success with the single "A Long Walk", eventually earning a Grammy nomination in early 2003 for Best Female Vocal Performance. Scott lost that award, but won a 2005 Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative R&B; Performance for "Cross My Mind." The live album, , was released November 2001. Scott's second full-length album, , followed in 2004.

Scott continues to write poetry; a compilation volume of her poems, The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours, was published and released by St. Martin's Press in April 2005. In early 2007, Scott was featured on the George Benson & Al Jarreau collaboration "God Bless The Child", which earned Scott her second Grammy award, Best Traditional R&B; Vocal Performance, at the 2007 Grammy Awards ceremony. Scott shared the win with Benson & Jarreau. Recently, Scott was prominently featured on hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco's 2006 single "Daydreaming" which won a 2008 Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative Performance and also appeared on a new Scott collection called Collaborations on January 30, 2007.

The Collaborations collection served as "an appetizer" for her next studio album, released September 25, 2007. A clip of the title track was released on a bonus disc from Hidden Beach Records and included with Collaborations. The lead single "Hate on Me", gained airplay in May 2007 with a video released in mid-July. In advance of the album's release, Hidden Beach released a 17-minute album sampler through their forums. Interspersed between the dozen songs previewed on the sampler was a personal explanation from Jill for the inspiration behind some of her songs.

In 2008, Scott released her second live album, Live In Paris+, which consists of 8 songs recorded during her set list of the "Big Beautiful Tour" in Europe. The bonus DVD contains the same concert, plus some live cuts from . In the same year, "Whenever You're Around", a single from The Real Thing which features George Duke, was a moderate hit on urban radio.

2010-Present: The Light of the Sun

Following up 2007's Grammy nominated Gold certified album The Real Thing, Jill is currently in the studio recording her fourth studio album titled The Light of the Sun. The album embarks Jill on a flurry of emotional poetry as both her career and personal life have skyrocketed with success in Hollywood and the birth of her first child.

In an interview with HitQuarters, producer and album collaborator JR Hutson commented on Scott's approach to the record by saying, "She’s now in charge of a lot of different things and with it comes a lot of trials and tribulations, and I think her goal is to just give people a very realistic glimpse of where she is in her life right now."

Jill has been working in Los Angeles and Philadelphia studios with producers Terry Lewis, JR Hutson and Justice League for the new album and is scheduled for a 2011 release.

Other appearances and song-writing

Her live performance in 2004 with members of The Roots, which also includes a joint performance with Erykah Badu, is featured in Dave Chappelle's 2006 concert film, Dave Chappelle's Block Party. UK dance duo Goldtrix covered Scott's song "It's Love", re-naming it "It's Love (Trippin')" with singer Andrea Brown taking over vocal duties. The song became a top ten hit in the UK, peaking at number six. "It's Love (Trippin')" was also covered by South West Beats (Featuring Claudia Patrice) in 2008. The song "Golden" is featured in a R&B; themed radio station in the Rockstar Games video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

Vocal profile

Scott is a vocalist who infused jazz, R&B;, spoken word, and hip hop among other genres to create a distinct style that many refer to as neo soul. Her vocal capabilities are so rich that a reviewer on Pop Matter, referring to Scott's vocal ability, stated 'Scott draws on her upper register, recalling the artistry of the late "songbird" Minnie Riperton and Deniece Williams'. The same reviewer in another article stated, 'The song evokes the artistry of Minnie Riperton as Scott sings in the upper register that makes its only appearances on Who is Jill Scott? on the teasing "I Think It's Better" and "Show Me." Scott has "a very rare facility to hit notes in the sixth octave as displayed on songs such as 'Gimme' where she hits a D6 with full vibrato, and on 'Spring Summer Feeling' where she hits a C7 in the background".

Film and television

On the advice of her good friend, director Ozzie Jones, she began pursuing a career in acting in 2000. She joined a fellowship at a theater company in Philadelphia. For two years, she took small, menial jobs in exchange for acting lessons.

In 2004, Scott expanded her resume by appearing in several episodes of season four of UPN's Girlfriends, playing Donna, a love interest to main character, William Dent (Reggie Hayes). She also appeared in the Showtime movie Cavedwellers, starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.

In 2007, Scott appeared in Hounddog (as Big Mama Thornton) and in Tyler Perry's movie, Why Did I Get Married?

In 2008, Scott appeared as Precious Ramotswe in Anthony Minghella's film adaption of Alexander McCall Smith's series of books The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency playing a detective. Scott then filmed additional episodes for the series in Botswana in late 2008, co-funded by the BBC and HBO that were broadcast as a seven-part series on BBC1 in March 2009; and on HBO, which debuted March 29, 2009. BBC and HBO are contemplating whether to produce a second round of episodes of the series.

On March 24, 2010, Scott guest-starred in an episode of . She reprised her role as Sheila in Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010). The movie was shot in August 2009 and received an April 2, 2010 release.

In 2010, Scott starred in the Lifetime Movie, "Sins of the Mother", as Nona, an alcoholic mother confronted by her estranged daughter who she neglected.

Personal life

Scott and longtime boyfriend Lyzel Williams, a graphic artist and DJ, married in 2001 in a private Hawaiian ceremony during a vacation. The couple dated for seven years before they wed. Scott wrote and recorded the song "He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)" about Williams. After six years of marriage, Scott and Williams divorced in 2007.

On June 20, 2008, at a concert in New York's Carnegie Hall, Scott shared a long on-stage kiss with her drummer, Lil' John Roberts; the couple then told the audience that they were engaged. They expected their first child on April 25, 2009 but the baby boy, Jett Hamilton Roberts, arrived five days earlier. On June 23, 2009, Scott announced that she and Roberts had broken up, with Scott breaking the news to Essence. Despite the break-up, Scott hopes for both parents to have an active part in their child's upbringing, stating that "We definitely love our son and we are co-parenting and working on being friends. It is what it is. I have a lot of support, so I want for nothing as far as that's concerned." During her 2010 tour with Maxwell, Scott has introduced her music band and Roberts is no longer a member. He is now a member of Mo'Nique's band on The Mo'Nique Show.

Charity work and advocacy

Scott has established the Blues Babe Foundation, a program founded to help young minority students pay for university expenses. The Blues Babe Foundation offers financial assistance to students between the ages of sixteen to twenty-one, and targets students residing in Philadelphia, Camden, and the greater Delaware Valley. Scott donated USD$100,000 to help start the foundation. The foundation was named after Scott's grandmother, known as "Blue Babe". On the foundation's website, it defines its mission statement as one where it "seeks to provide financial support and mentoring for those students who have shown the aptitude and commitment to their education, but whose families may not have the resources to ensure completion of their undergraduate degrees".

In the spring of 2003, the Blues Babe Foundation made a donation of more than $60,000 to the graduating class of the Creative Arts School in Camden, New Jersey. Any student who maintained a 3.2 GPA received a yearly stipend for the next three years that was put toward his or her college education.

At the Essence Music Festival in July 2006, Scott spoke out about how women of color are portrayed in the lyrics of rap songs, and in rap music videos. Scott criticized the content for being "dirty, inappropriate, inadequate, unhealthy, and polluted" and urged the listening audience to "demand more".

Scott was a columnist in the April issue of Essence magazine and she expressed her point of view about Black men who marry Caucasian women. In the column Scott says "We reflect on this awful past and recall that if a Black man even looked at a White woman, he would have been lynched, beaten, jailed or shot to death. These harsh truths lead to what we really feel when we see a seemingly together brother with a Caucasian woman and their children." The column has sparked controversy on the internet.

Discography

Albums

{| class="wikitable" !align="left" valign="top" width="40"|Year !align="left" valign="top"|Album !align="center" valign="top" width="40"|^U.S. !align="center" valign="top" width="40"|^{U.S. R&B;} !align="center" valign="top" width="40"|^UK !align="left" valign="top"|^{RIAA certification} |- |align="left" |2000 |align="left" |Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 |align="center" |17 |align="center" |2 |align="center" |69 |align="center" |2× Platinum |- |align="left" valign="top"|2001 |align="left" valign="top"| |align="center" valign="top"|38 |align="center" valign="top"|7 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|Platinum |- |align="left" valign="top"|2004 |align="left" valign="top"| |align="center" valign="top"|3 |align="center" valign="top"|1 |align="center" valign="top"|27 |align="center" valign="top"|Gold |- |align="left" rowspan="2"|2007 |align="left" valign="top"|Collaborations |align="center" valign="top"|11 |align="center" valign="top"|3 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |- |align="left" valign="top"| |align="center" valign="top"|4 |align="center" valign="top"|2 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|Gold |- |align="left" valign="top"|2008 |align="left" valign="top"|Live In Paris+ |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|Gold |- |align="left" valign="top"|2011 |align="left" valign="top"|The Light of The Sun |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |}

Singles

{| class="wikitable" !align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Year !align="left" valign="top"|Song !align="center" width="40"|^U.S !align="center" width="40"|^{U.S R&B;} !align="center" width="40"|^{Hot A.C.} !align="center" width="40"|^UK !align="left" |Album |- |align="center" valign="top"|2000 |align="left" valign="top"|"Gettin' In the Way" |align="center" valign="top"|115 |align="center" valign="top"|28 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|30 |align="center" rowspan="3"|Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 |- |align="center" rowspan="3"|2001 |align="left" valign="top"|"A Long Walk" |align="center" valign="top"|43 |align="center" valign="top"|9 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|54 |- |align="left" valign="top"|"The Way" |align="center" valign="top"|60 |align="center" valign="top"|15 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |- |align="left" valign="top"|"Shining Through" (Fredro Starr featuring Jill Scott) |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="left" valign="top"|Save The Last Dance (Soundtrack album) |- |align="center" rowspan="2"|2002 |align="left" valign="top"|"He Loves Me (Lyzel In E Flat)" |align="center" valign="top"|125 |align="center" valign="top"|46 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="left" rowspan="2"|Experience: Jill Scott 826+ |- |align="left" valign="top"|"Gimme" |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"| 107 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |- |align="center" valign="top"|2004 |align="left" valign="top"|"Golden" |align="center" valign="top"|110 |align="center" valign="top"|31 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|59 |align="left" rowspan="4"|Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 |- |align="center" rowspan="3"|2005 |align="left" valign="top"|"Whatever" |align="center" valign="top"|112 |align="center" valign="top"|34 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|— |- |align="left" valign="top"|"Cross My Mind" |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|38 |align="center" valign="top"|6 |align="center" valign="top"|— |- |align="left" valign="top"|"The Fact Is (I Need You)" |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|63 |align="center" valign="top"|19 |align="center" valign="top"|— |- |align="center" valign="top"|2006 | "Daydreamin'" (Lupe Fiasco featuring Jill Scott) |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|83 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|25 | Food & Liquor / Collaborations |- |align="center" rowspan="2"|2007 | "Hate on Me" |align="center" valign="top"|107 |align="center" valign="top"|24 |align="center" valign="top"|9 |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" rowspan="3"|The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 |- | "My Love" |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|31 |align="center" valign="top"|11 |align="center" valign="top"|— |- |align="center" rowspan="1"|2008 | "Whenever You're Around" (featuring George Duke) |align="center" valign="top"|— |align="center" valign="top"|56 |align="center" valign="top"|20 |align="center" valign="top"|— |- |}

Tours

Words And Sounds Tour (2001)

Buzz Tour (2004)

Big Beautiful Tour (2005)

The Real Thing Tour (2008)

(2010)

Award history

List of Jill Scott's Awards and Nominations

References

External links

Jill Scott — official website

Jill Scott on MySpace

Jill Scott discography at Discogs

Blues Babe Foundation website (organization she founded)

Category:1972 births Category:1990s singers Category:2000s singers Category:2010s singers Category:African American actors Category:African American female singers Category:African American singer-songwriters Category:African American performance poets

Category:African American poets Category:American jazz singers Category:American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters Category:American soul singers Category:English-language singers Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Category:Neo soul singers Category:Spoken word soul Category:Women in jazz

Name	Diana Falzone
Birth date	February 08, 1983
Birth place	New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Model Television presenter

Diana Falzone (b. February 8, 1983) was a talk show host on the "Cosmolicious with Diana" show on Cosmo Radio. She has been a guest on several television and radio shows nationwide including The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on Fox, The Sauce on Fuse TV, The Weekly Riff on Fuse TV, The CW Morning Show, The Carlos Watson Show on the CW, Best Night Ever on VH1, The Candace Bushnell Show, The Wise Guys Show, Breuer Unleashed, The Jay Thomas Show, and the Opie and Anthony Show on Sirius 197/XM 202. Diana is the host of "Date Night with Diana" on Fox News iMag. She is also an advice columnist for Military.com, where she writes a weekly column.
In an interview with The Huffington Post in March 2010, Falzone revealed that on 3rd August 2009 she got breast implants.

Work venues

on MTV]] Falzone has worked in various venues, including as a local network anchor for CW, a host correspondent for MTV and Fuse TV, a commentator for AMC (TV network), a host and producer for NYC-TV, and a guest host and correspondent for G4's Attack of the Show. She is best known for her work hosting the popular talk show that was on the air for two years: the Devore and Diana show. She appears on many Sirius shows and her voice can be heard on numerous channels such as Octane and the new AC/DC channel. She also hosts a weekly internet talk show Paltalk utilizing the internet chat service of the Paltalk. Recently, Falzone starred in a Paltalk presidential viral video. In a recent, ABC Radio interview she was quoted as saying, "People stop me on the street and say hey thanks for voting for me." Falzone is also Paltalk's spokesperson. Falzone was also voted number five most popular Maxim.com model in 2007 as well as a Today's Girl for Maxim. Diana is a frequent guest on the Fox News late-night satire show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, typically occupying the leg chair. She is a co-creator and writer of a new webcomic called Hot Mess.

Diana is represented by Parallel Entertainment.

References

External links

DeVore and Diana's Website

DianaFalzone.com

Diana Falzone's MySpace page

Diana Falzone's video chat show on Paltalk (Thursdays at 11 a.m.)

"Cosmo Radio on Sirius"

Hot Mess

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