Orgoo Integrates Your Email, IM, SMS
TechCrunch is blogging about a new Ajax-based service called Orgoo. Orgoo claims to integrate your email, IM, chat, SMS, video messaging and other web communication accounts all in one place.
Los Angeles-based Orgoo is a new webmail service that is going to be a popular application for some users. Not only does it emulate Outlook-style desktop mail applications extremely well, it also integrates instant messaging from all of the major IM providers directly into the interface. If you are looking for a service-independent webmail/IM service, you'll want to check this out.TechCrunch says Orgoo is offering 3 GB of storage for free. Competition includes Goowy and Foldera. These kinds of services will probably be of interest to people who like to try lots of different email and IM providers.
If you've been around long enough to remember Oddpost, which launched in 2002, you'll see similarities with Orgoo. Like Oddpost, Orgoo is an Ajax webmail service that lets users access their favorite email accounts via POP or IMAP access. Evolution of the Oddpost service stopped, however, in 2004 when it was acquired by Yahoo. Much of the Oddpost engine has now been integrated into Yahoo mail.
The key difference between Orgoo and the major Internet webmail services (Gmail, Yahoo, Live Hotmail, AOL) is that it also integrates instant messaging from all major providers.
Posted on May 14, 2007
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Google Launches Google Talk Beta
Google has launched a new instant messanger and internet phone tool called Google Talk. The tool will compete with similar instant messenger (IM) products from AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo. Google Talk's web phone tool will compete with products like Skype -- although Skype has the advantage because it can call land line phones and Google Talk cannot.
Update: Looks like Skype doesn't want Google's launch to steal its thunder. ZDNet reports that Skype is launching IM developer tools to promote its instant messenging software.
The company on Wednesday unleashed its SkypeWeb and SkypeNet developer tools. By doing so, the company says, it's opening up its platform to people who wants to integrate Skype Instant Messaging -- a lesser-known feature of Skype -- into their applications.
"Skype to wants to embrace the rest of Internet," Skype co-founder Janus Friis said during a recent interview.
Skype IM is given away free, along with the company's Net phone software, to people who register with the company. The company says that it has 51 million registered users but did not provide an estimate of how many of those people use the IM service. Skype says, however, that it can be a significant threat to instant-messaging giants America Online, MSN and Yahoo. Representatives of AOL and MSN did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Posted on August 24, 2005
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