20 January 2007

COMMUNICATE 2.0 - Update

Man's desire to communicate seems to be endless - since we discovered the phone as a device for social talk, we're spending more & more of our time to all kinds of silly (and only some serious) chatter.
To me it's surprising that there's so little innovation in interfacing between all these devices & applications. Landlines, mobile phones, email, webmail, voicemail, VoIP, messenger, chat - who will enable me to manage them all from one Über-app?!

Remarkable volume of new activities around (alternatives for old style) telecommunications.

2prong - Get email address for 24 hrs
3bubbles - Add chat to your blog
3Dplanets - VR chat community
3jam - One to many texting
9cays - Group email2web
Abcde… - Get the longest email-address
Ajchat - Create chat rooms
Bbpress - Publish & manage your forum
Blinklife*** - Social email
Blobber - Communicate with other site visitors
Blogoforum - Categorize your forum by tagging
Butterfat - Traceroute map mash-up
Callthefuture - Place future phone calls
Campfire - Permalinked chat
Cellcast - Record audio or video with your cell phone & share it with friends
Celltell - Send voice notes from your phone
Chatcreator* - Create your chat room instantly
Chatfu - Cartoonize your chat
Chatsum* - Chat with & leave messages same-site-visitors
Chinswing - Voice message board
Clipsync - Watch videos together & chat
Combots - Communicate & share emoti(c)ons 1 to 1
Connectmeanywhere - Mobile & landlines over IP
Conversate - Create your own chat
Craigsnumber - Get a temporary, anonymous phone number
Crickee - Send & receive sms for free
Daisy - Meet & share with fellow site visitors
Dropsend - Email large files
Ebuddy - Integrates several messengers (formerly E-messenger)
E-messenger~ - Integrates several messengers (relaunched as Ebuddy)
Eqo - Call, text & IM your buddies on your mobile
Evoca - Create, manage, share & search voice recordings
Feefo - Leave feedback on sellers; forum
Flurrymail - Your email on your current mobile phone
Foonz - Make group calls for free (USA)
Forlater - Send email reminders to yourself & others
Fring - Call for free on your 3G cell
Gabbly - Get chat on your blog
Gabmail* - Record & send videomail
Gigya - Myspace2email
Gizmo - Call Gizmo friends for free, or pay low rates
Gotvoice - Save & share your voice mail in email
Grandcentral* - Get 1 phone number for all your calls
Grouptivity - Reduce response on group email
Gtalkr - Google Talk, Flickr, YouTube, feeds
Hellodeo* - Record & send your video message
Hictu - See thru which channels you can best communicate with your contacts
Hinale - Chat with people who have visited the same sites
Hotxt - Skype for sms
Hullo* - Integrates soft, cell & landline phones
ICQphone - Call at low rates
Iglance - Push-to-talk videoconf and screen-sharing
Iloveim - Meta IM
Imeem - Share words, files & people (on messenger)
Imeep - Chat 1 to 1 at at random
Imvu - 3D messenger
Incircles - Add a chat app to your blog
Instan-t - Meta messenger
Iotum - Sorts & processes calls on relevance
Iskoot - Call people on your online buddylists
Itzle - Chat with other site visitors
Jabbin - PC2PC voip (Jabber client)
Jabphone - Messenger2phone
Jajah - Free phone calls, glocally
Jangl - Hide your cell phone number (Stealth)
Joopz - Web2Text & Text2Web
Jott - Voice & text 2 email & mobile
Jumpclaimer - Inform your relatives about your whereabouts thru sms
Juvino - Reroute your mobile calls and texting
Kishkish - Detect lies thru phone
Koolim - Meta messenger
Kopete - Universal messenger
Lingr - Chat community
Litepost - Webmail
Loquendotts - Text2sneeze
Mabber - Mobile messenger
Mail2RSS - Inmail2RSS
Mailfriends - Penpals site
Mailvault - Store, process & encrypt your email
Mamjam - Location based instant messaging
Mangeloo - Run IM on all devices & everwywhere
Mapchatter - Chat on maps
Maywehelp - Surf any web page & Chat with other site visitors
Meebo - Integrates several messengers
Messagr - Find & communicate with people with matching interests or knowledge
Mig33 - Chat, text & call your friends
Mixd - Text & send pix & vids to groups of friends
Mobbah~ - Email or wap your photo + location
Mozeo - Text cast to & chat with your own group on your cell
Myemail - Check email anywhere
Nabaztag* - Get info & communicate thru wi-fi rabbit device
Nat1ion - Chat while you surf
Newsletterarchive* - Store & share your newsletters
Nimbuzz~ - Free mobile community calls, chats, IM
Nowpos - Voice2Email
Onesens - Send teasing webmail messages
Oyco - Meta communications toolkit
Paltalk - Videochat for social networks
Peekkochat - Make every site a 'place' (Firefox plug-in)
Pheeder - Alert all your friends with 1 phone call
Pinger - Instant voice messaging
Plugaid - Start or participate in discussions & take them with you
Quickmail - Email2RSS
Quicktopic - Group message board
Radiohandi - Group chat
Radiusim - Location enhanced messenger service
Readspeaker - Text2speech app (Spanish)
Rebtel* - Call international at local rates - using your cell phone
Roundcube - Webmail
Sameplace - Chat while you surf
Sametalk - Chat with other site visitors
Scatterchat - Secure IM for activists & dissidents
Sendspace - Email large files
Shinyletter - Mail2snailmail
Sideklick - Get contextually relevant video suggestions added to your IM
Sightspeed - Voice & video over IP
itepal* - Design speaking animated avatars
Skylook - Record & store all Skype communications
Skype - Call, conference, messenger, file sharing
Slawesome - Add voice to your email
Social-mail - Email2RSS
Soonr - Mobile2web & v.v.
Spambob - Disposable email addresses
Spinvox - From voice to text to mobile or email
Springdoo - Add your voice to your email
Sproutit - Mailroom: process email together
Stickam* - Multimedia communication tool
Swarmthedotcom* - See how other people browse & chat (Firefox)
Talkshoe - Chat, talk 1:1, host a talkshow
Talkster - Mobile2IM for free
Talktrust - Call anonymously
Tangler - Instant group messaging (Stealth)
Tapgad - Get & reply to email thru sms
Teleflip - PC2Text
Tello - Locate & collaborate with your key contacts
Tempinbox - Receive inmail anonymously
Textmarks - Customize your own sms info service
Trustmymail - Spam filter based on your circle of contacts
Tworl - Chat with strangers
Twttr - Share where you are thru your cell phone
Txtmob - Share sms messages with your friends
Userplane - Chat, messenger, record
V4s - Add voice to your email
Vanilla - Forum solution
Vennt - tag-based forum solution
Vicito - Group text service
Waxmail - Add voice to your email
Web2messenger - Send messages from web 2 messenger
Webride - Add forum to any web page
Wiffiti* - Text your message to public screens
Yackpack - Group voicemail
Yakalike - Chat while you surf websites
Youmail - Record unique voice mail recordings for anyone that calls you
Yousendit - Email large files
Yugma - Free web conferencing
Zemble - Communicate, collaborate & connect thru group text
Zlango - Icon language for sms
Zohochat - Create your own chat room
Zweitgeist - Meet & communicate with people on websites

Italic = new. Update 061221, 070119.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I found the team at craigsnumber to
be very reactive when I wrote to
them in Dec06 at: info@craigsnumber.com

I had a nice exchange with them
regarding some ideas.

Roger

Unknown said...

Bob good to follow your blog here. And I suddenly realize that we're Linked in since ages. Interesting view. It's quite the same view we have when building Nimbuzz from scratch. Connecting the mobile world with IM communities and in a more broader context social communities. For all kinds of communications. Looking forward to speak with you personally in our Rotterdam office!

Martin Smink
co-Founder Nimbuzz

Unknown said...

YackPack has added live voice to its messaging service. So now YackPack is a voice communication tool for groups, with push-to-talk for live communication, and "click, talk, send" for audio messaging. Everything is web based, so there's no installation. And you can put it on your own web site.

--BJ Fogg
YackPack CEO

 
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