TM iTalk Buddy - Creating Communities
Do you remember IRC? Those were the heydays of online communication, with ICQ (do you remember your ICQ number still because for some odd reason I do..).
And yeah I had a 6 digit ICQ number at one point until I forgot the password.
ICQ went downhill FAST when it was bought by AOL (1998).
Nowadays we have all kind of options, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Google Talk, Skype and various clients which will enable you to use all networks (My favourites are Trillian and Miranda).
We have a new option now, from TM here in Malaysia called iTalk Buddy.
Initially I just wrote Italk Buddy off as another copycat, same old thing - probably based on Jabber trying to grab a little bit of the IM market share.
But after some investigation I found it was actually pretty good and technologically quite advanced, the most impressive parts for me are the offline bits and the fact you can really create your own communities behind a firewall and without the general requirement of an Internet connection.
This is perfect for those in offices, hostels or hotels that can't get out to the Internet but can communicate on the LAN or local network - also allows for file and print sharing, screen sharing, group work on documents and of course chatting or calling.
They call it SON or Self Organizing Network.
It also has the oldskool ICQ style user search, so you can find types of people by location, age, interest and so on.
You can also do offnet calls (PC - Landphone/Cellphone calls), mobile blogging, FREE 3D Moji and options for premium services.
The 3D virtual pet is pretty cool - it has AI built in so you can actually have a conversation with it. It's designed to be responsive and emotive and to adopt your traits.
You can find out more at the Italk Buddy website and portal:
Tags: communication, file sharing, IM, instant messaging, italk, moji, skype, tm, tm italk, video call, voipPosted in Internet & Tech | -
Related Posts:
- MyBlogLog - Is it Stupid?
- It’s Friday
- Shutter Asia Forum - Keeping Photography ALIVE!
- yeah! yeah! yeah! yeah!
- The Passing of a Friend - Andrew Cheng Jing Liang
- Drunk, drunk and happy?!?
7 Comments so far
Leave a reply
Using
Hehe... a couple of years ago I was involved in a pitch for Greenpacket and one of the products they wanted to push was SONbuddy. Did TMNet buy / license the product off GreenPacket and rebrand it into iTalkbuddy? There must be more to this story...
Using
[...] the features are same as other famous instant messenger but iTalk Buddy has more new features which are very attractive to me. Soon I can [...]
Using
I think many people still prefer MSN as it's free from spam, unlike Yahoo Messenger. Same as Skype which is prone to spams. As for iTalkbuddy, I don't think I'll consider it at all coz building up a whole new frens list is not something I like to do.
Using
Hmm...made in Malaysia... can trust?
Using
What's wrong with "made in Malaysia"?
You'll surprised how good some "Made in Malaysia" technology can be. We are usually let down only by the support after that.
Sorry, off topic a bit there.
Using
I've tried this iTalk Buddy as well and yes, TM bought the rights from GreenPacket. Though it's not as good as MSN or YM now but give them time to improve. Heard they received lots of comments from user (including myself) and they are trying to meet those requirements as and when possible. I would say they have a lots of feature which MSN and YM don't have.
Using
davidlian: It's still powered by SONBuddy yeah.
hcfoo: Yeah of course, the main contention with people is that their friend lists are already with another system. The advantage of this is you can create communities in a limited environment.
Planet Malaysia: What's wrong with local stuff? There's some great local technology products.
yummyyyy: Yah agree, it's still young and it's developing so we can expect it to get better.