The open communications experience - what does it mean?
Yoomba is all about open. Yoomba's team, our close friends, and people all over the world... have been using instant messaging and internet telephony for years. Typical users have 3-4 different accounts, run 2 or more clients on their computer, and have 5-10 contacts (on a good day...) in each list. And, if you have only one account and client installed - it is impossible to talk to all your friends.
Why? because all the "old" networks are closed. They only allow you to call people that have their "ID"?!
How many times did we hear people say "If I only knew how I can reach this friend... I would call or chat", or "Why do I need to register and get another ID to talk to people I already know?!"
Before Yoomba - if you have a gmail account, you can only talk to people on gmail. Yahoo users can't talk to AOL or Skype users. Hotmail users can't talk to anyone outside Yahoo and MSN and so on. Not to forget the biggest group of users out there, with emails like anyname@whatever.com, that don't have any way to talk, and need to join a "seperate" closed network!? " (like the one's we mentioned...) - just to talk to a very small group of people.
That's strange... It's more than strange, it's just not right... This is why we created Yoomba.
We understood, that in order to solve this problem once and for all - we need to create something from scratch - a new open experience. This experience should look, act, and feel like something you already know. So we created the Yoomba experience!
Everyone has an email address - right? Everyone uses some kind of email application (Outlook or webmail) to read, write, reply to emails. This is a very open and natural experience. You have one place where you can email with all the people you know with one simple click.
So now, we are setting the stage for the new era of personal communication.
With Yoomba you can email call and email chat with everyone, from your favorite place. Everyone means - hotmail, gmail, yahoo, AOL, name@anydomain.com, etc.
Got an email from someone? - you call/chat (instant message) at a click. Want to call/chat with anyone you know? - a touch of a button would do that. Want to have all your contacts show up in one place? - that's Yoomba. And more...
Finally - the one and only open communications experience!
Open is better than closed :)
Yoomba, Now you're talking...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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How is your call quality?
Does anyone have invitation?
Would like to see a video demo.
I love the idea of this company. Wish I had more money to buy it! We all had a home phone number on the same (AT&T) system, yet all got cell phones with new numbers anyway. I would like to be a sales rep, tech consultant for this company. I am local to Silicon Valley, in the Santa Clara area. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Mike Carrieri
1 (408) 528-4949
mdcnet1@gmail.com
HI!
For first impression - I was not impressed by the spam this software requires in order for it to be installed. If you import your outlook contacts as default it will send to all of them, including all the cached emails invitation. Business users have lots of those, and for the person that does not uncheck the boxes to send the invitation - he's just become a spammer.
Second, when am I required to send at least one invitation in order to get the installation finished?
Third, why is there no customer install? It installs itself to C:\Program Files\ - what if I don't what it to be there?
Forth, why can't I delete contacts from the contact list?
In any case - the worse is the SPAM default. Users who do not notice will spam all of their contacts and the second they do that they will uninstall this software.
I think this is the most important thing to fix.
Apart from social aspect of those "old" networks involving IDs like ICQ number, Skype name, Yahoo ID, etc., they have their own technical layers incompatible with each other, which actually transport messages, audio and video. Now you propose a yet another technical layer, apparently equally incompatible with all the previous ones, and just tie it to the most common ID network - e-mail. This means joining Yoomba (e.g. by installing it) is pretty much the same as joining any other "old" network.
And where is the money in this project? How are you going to make your living? By spamming all the subscribers and their contacts? ;)
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It is get blocked by firewall in my office...Why cant you make in website itself (Embedding in the site itself so no installation required)
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