It was almost exactly two years ago, my colleague Robin Wauters first wrote about a service called Imo titled: IMO.IM Is The Best IM Web Services Thou Äôve never heard of. I Äôll be honest, I did AOT listen to him at the time (though to be fair, I did aot even work at TechCrunch yet). He followed up a few months later when the service added Facebook chat support. But since then, they fell kind from our radar. So that AOS time tonight to give them some more love because the service is really pretty big, AI, and after three years in alpha, they Aore finally dropping that label.
The idea is super simple: Imo is an IM client that allows you to log into many different types of IM accounts at once, all managed through their service. Of course there are many services like this out there. But the key to Imo is that what AOS quick and easy to use. I mean really easy. All you do is enter your username and passwords for different services, and you Aore out and run in a way that AOS is very smooth.
And those Äôve just launched a complete redesign of their web experience. It actually makes the service even easier to use. Now Imo online sort of resembles a blank canvas just waiting to be filled with chats. Chats that you can drag and drop to place anywhere in your window in your browser. And like the new version of Gmail was launched today, can Imo.im send you desktop notifications of new chat. And like their mobile clients, you can now send instant messages, voice messages of up to 30 seconds in length as well (another feature that has fascinated me recently).
, At AOS the second key to Imo.im: their large mobile clients. Whether you have an iPhone, iPad or Android device, Imo offers a neat and simple way to connect with all your different IM services. Below find a demo of IPAD app in action.
Although it may seem a little odd that the service has been up and running for three years and is now losing alpha label, you remember that one of the co-founders are Imo Georges Harik, one of the first 10 employees at Google. He AOS learned well.
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