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Communications - Friday, September 14, 2007

1 of first 10 Google Employees Launches Imo.im

Palo Alto-based Imo.Im has been founded (and funded) by one of the first ten employees at Google and says it is advised by several early Googlers. Imo allows you to chat with your friends on instant messaging clients from one spot. You can also create group chats between buddies from any of your messaging services. As one reviewer pointed out, this particularly helpful for people who use GTalk, since they it doesn't have a group chat function available. The company has also launched a Facebook app version.

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Imo will face comparisons to Meebo and eBuddy which has been out much longer and has many more users and features. But Imo is just in Alpha and surely have some ideas on how to zig where Meebo zags. Ralph at Imo just says: "We plan on offering a variety of features that go beyond basic IM."

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