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Make free video calls across devices with instant messaging app ‘imo’

Posted on February 12, 2014 by

imo is a free Internet & mobile instant messaging application that recently added video calling to its portfolio of services. The video calling feature is cross-platform, which means users can make & receive video calls from a computer to mobile devices & vice versa. There is no need to download anything, you can do the video calling right from your Internet browser.

imo hopes to take advantage of the opportunities in the video calling market, placing itself in direct competition to the Microsoft owned Skype, & Apple’s FaceTime offering.

imo’s instant messaging & chatting services have been available for some years now. You can use them to message your contacts across multiple services like Facebook, Google Hangouts, Skype, Yahoo & AIM/ICQ. Users can create new chat groups & utilize the imo network to connect with even strangers.

Reviewers say imo’s chat service is easy to use & well integrated. You can send your contact an invitation & select any feature to use while contacting them. But all the contacts need to be on imo to be included in the group chat. They cannot participate from other messenger services.

A major highlight is imo’ slim user interface which means you can open a smaller window to chat on. This enables users to continue chatting on the messaging service while doing other tasks on their computer.

video calling app

Features

  • Free voice & video calls
  • Share voice messages, text & pictures with contacts
  • Use the imo network to contact new people
  • The Broadcasts feature finds relevant Content & news items for you
  • Create new groups with family, friends & acquaintances
  • Browse & search the chat history conveniently
  • Hold simultaneous sessions on multiple devices
  • Available in multiple languages on Android & iOS
  • Supports Steam, Jabber, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk & Facebook Chat

In short, imo stands out for its versatile cross-platform video calling feature & the fact that you can chat with your friends across multiple messaging services.

Imo.im was founded in 2007 & is based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company’s other products include ConnectMore & Reversimo. Imo.im has raised US $13 million to increase its staff strength & develop more applications.

Click here to download imo.im on your Android device

Click here to download imo.im on your iOS device.

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Sqwiggle

Skype, Google Hangout, here comes competition. The new startup’s called Sqwiggle

Posted on July 22, 2013 by

This new startup called Sqwiggle is actually an Online solution to a Real World problem, hence finds its way to these pages.

We have all heard of Skype the Internet-based video communication service by now. And of course, Google Hangout. Well, now there’s Sqwiggle. This new startup is a social network based on video conferencing in the world of Web-Real Time Communication (Web-RTC). Sqwiggle can be used, for example, by those who work from home, to keep in touch with fellow workers or clients.

The benefits that Sqwiggle claims to offer is:

  • Instantly see & hear other team members with no need to call or share everything important to your work in one beautiful,
  • Easy to use app
  • The product minimizes bandwidth consumption by taking still images every 10 seconds. Users can then click on any image to instantly activate live video & audio
  • Interactions are 2 minutes on average (compared to 27 minutes for Skype)

This new startup says all that one needs to do when you feel like discussing something with a workmate is to click on a teammate’s picture& viola! You are instantly brought into a ‘Live’ discussion!

That’s the way this new startup works. Each outfit or company gets its own virtual “workroom”, & each member gets a place in a grid of images. When one is not in  conversation with someone else, he/she appears as a black & white still photo.To speak to someone, you simply click on their face. Sqwiggle also allows you to talk to several people at once. You just click on their faces, and you’re instantly in a group chat. All this effectively saves a lot of bandwidth.

This San Francisco, USA-based new startup charges for its service, starting at US$9 per person per month. But it also allows you a 14-day free trial. And what’s with the tongue twister of a name? Well, we don’t know, as yet.

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