Having examined a trio of recent entrants Pinger, Jyngle, and 3Jam in the multperson mobile communication space, I’ve decided to return to one of their forefathers, the colorfully named Dodgeball. This ambitious early experiment in social communication from NYC eventually caught the eye of Google, which gobbled it up May 2005 for an undisclosed […]
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Next up is 3Jam. Since I reviewed Pinger previously, and the two services share similar ambitions and grapple the similar issues, each exploiting server side processing to foster group communication over the existing crude infrastructure, I’ll bring up points of comparison as I go along.
3Jam, like Pinger, threads conversations and distributes messages to all […]
Popularity: 6% [?]
I tried the Jyngle service after a positive experience with Pinger and boy was I disappointed. It’s surprising that for all the publicity these companies get that no one actually reports on the quality of these services. Deal info and CEO hobnobbing seem to trump first hand experience.
Jyngle and Pinger realize different subsets […]
Popularity: 4% [?]
Technologist based in the DC area with an eye on the long tail of Web 2.0
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