03 March 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?!
Since recently, there's a 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
Allfreecalls - Make free calls from the USA
Bbpress - Publish & manage your forum
Blinklife*** - Social email
Blobber - Communicate with other site visitors
Blogoforum - Categorize your forum by tagging
Boxbe - Use Boxbe as your public address, let advertisers pay to reach you
Buddystumbler - Find someone to IM with
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
Convinceme - Choose from 3 debating features
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
Funkycall - Record, upload, deploy & share your phone pranks
Fuzzmail - Record & send 'film' of how you generate an email message
Gabbly - Get chat on your blog
Gabmail* - Record & send videomail
Getabuz - Create a voice mail with music
Gigya - Myspace2email
Gizmo - Call Gizmo friends for free, or pay low rates
Good - Global mobile messaging for the enterprise
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
Imthere - Share where your are & where you're going
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
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 visitor
Meebo - Integrates several messengers
Messagr - Find & communicate with people with matching interests or knowledge
Mig33 - Chat, text & call your friends
Minowireless - VoiP on your mobile
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
Phonegnome* - Add VoiP to your PSTN, SIPped
Pikapet - Create & send a personalized ecard
Pinger - Instant voice messaging
Pinppl - PIN messaging for Blackberry users
Planetminibox - Let your site visitors chat with you & eachother
Plugaid - Start or participate in discussions & take them with you
Plugoo - Take your IM to any page you want
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
Scratchnscribble - Mail real handwritten postcards
Scribeit - Group chat thru mobile messaging
Sendspace - Email large files
Shinyletter - Mail2snailmail
Sideklick - Get contextually relevant video suggestions added to your IM
Sideklick - Get contextually relevant video suggestions added to your IM
Sightspeed - Voice & video over IP
Sitepal* - Design speaking animated avatars
Sitòfono - Receive calls from your website
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)
Talkplus - Get a second mobile number on your cell
Talkshoe - Chat, talk 1:1, host a talkshow
Talkster - Mobile2IM for free
Talktrust - Call anonymously
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
Tjat - Mobile instant messaging
Truphone - Mobile VoiP
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
Vringo - Share video ringtones with your friends when you call them
Wambo - IM, group messaging & media sharing
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
Yoo-hoo - Put a Yoo-hoo in your signature, get an alert if someone tries to reach you
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, 070303.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beta Bunny recently tested one of the products mentioned - Hotxt. Thought some might be interested.

http://www.reachstudents.co.uk/blog/2007/03/01/hotxt-hot-or-not/

Eric Frost said...

Yugma has gone beyond free web colloboration to allowing people to present their own projects and ideas virtually using their booth at Web 2.0:

www.yugma.com/stage2

faweez said...

Hey thanks Bob for this info and most of all for Nowpos.com coz now its not just a Voice e-mail but a social network with voice as well.

keep on updating this kind a awesome stuff
bye

 
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