Essential communication web applications, tools and resources for startups and entrepreneurs

1000Keyboards

1000Keyboards


1000Keyboards is a website created for writers to submit, share, critique and communicate in an environment tuned to promote growth and exposure.


Actionize

Actionize


Businesses and projects don't fail from a lack of reports, charts, graphs or stats. They fail from a lack of clear communication and transparent in...


Anywr

Anywr


Anywr is a web and mobile system that offers simple, yet powerful services for managing contacts, events and communications intelligently from virt...

mobile

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calendar

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event

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BabelWithMe

BabelWithMe


Communicate with anyone, anywhere in up to 45 languages. BabelWith.me is a simple, free group chat that automatically translates your conversation ...

facebook

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twitter

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group

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Bambuser

Bambuser


Stream video live from your mobile to the web. Notify people when you go live, shoot with almost no delay, and chat with your viewers while broadca...

live

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mobile

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Bantam

Bantam


Start an online workspace with Bantam to communicate, share information, and manage relationships inside and outside your organization.

realtime

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organize

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office

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Beanbag

Beanbag


Beanbag connects parents and students to tutors without the middleman. It's also a great place to find & share videos, websites and other stuff tha...


Belysio

Belysio


Belysio is a universal platform that brings your address books alive by synchronized communication, location services & geo stories. belysio is ope...


Blinko

Blinko


Blinko allows you to get closer to your friends - anytime and anywhere. Whether you’ve only got a minute to spare to catch up with what’s going on ...


bOK

bOK


bOK is the new way to make cell phone calls in order to avoid hefty charges from your cell phone company. Most cell phone companies will give you a...


Brizzly

Brizzly


Brizzly is a way to view content from the social web. Right now, you can view enhanced content from Twitter in a clear, simple way. Brizzly plan to...


BubbleGuru

BubbleGuru


Whether you have a business site, blog, or online educational course, with Bubble Guru you can easily improve communications with your web site vis...


Bumpin

Bumpin


BumpIn enables people with similar interests, needs, likes and dislikes to live chat with each other. For instance, with BumpIn, people searching f...

IM

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chat

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social

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Cataplt

Cataplt


Catapltis a web-based middle market email solution Catapltis designed it because emailing larger lists from Microsoft Outlook can be painful, but l...


Cellity

Cellity


The cellity Communicator turns your cellular into a mobile e-mail program including your own e-mail address. Send and receive your e-mails no matte...

mobile

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download

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email

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Clarizen

Clarizen


Clarizen is a global provider of on-demand, collaborative project execution software that allows businesses to easily manage all of their projects ...


ClikBall

ClikBall


cliKball is a new way to share and discuss interesting stuff you find on the web. Find something compelling and just cliK a button to broadcast to:...


Co-op

Co-op


Co-op makes it easy to stay connected with your co-workers without disrupting them. Your team can use it to post updates, ask questions, share link...

office

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lifestream

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track

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Colaab

Colaab


Be up and running with Real-time collaboration over documents, images and videos in minutes. colaab offers any business or organization secure, rea...


Combo

Combo


Combo is a social-web dashboard that allows you to integrate your contacts, content and communication into one interface accessible from the web an...

mobile

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social

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network

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DailyBooth

DailyBooth


Document and share your life with others. Get real time updates on what your friends and family are doing every day.


Dexrex

Dexrex


Dexrex is the free add-on for archiving IM & SMS messages. Sign in with your screen name, download the plugin, and start saving your world one mess...

IM

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chat

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messaging

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plugin

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Doodledays

Doodledays


doodledays is designed for parents with young children (less than 5 years old) residing in the US. doodledays members can select, track and review ...

kids

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create

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exchange

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track

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EasyPost

EasyPost


EasyPost allows you to send regular paper letter mail to any mailbox in Canada, through this one simple page. An EasyPost letter contains the follo...


eyejot

eyejot


Eyejot is the first, comprehensive, client-free online video messaging platform ideal for both personal and business communications. It offers ever...


Fidj.it

Fidj.it


Fidj.it is a way for friends, family and co-workers to communicate, stay connected and come closer together. You can share just about anything: pho...


Firefly

Firefly


There are people out there, on the same site as you, firefly lets you see them and chat with them. Nothing to install.


Fix8

Fix8


Fix8 is a unique interactive communication application that allows people to customize their on-screen virtual appearance in real-time using avatar...

3D

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virtual

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Flashphone

Flashphone


Flashphone is a free-of-charge web-service which allows you to call from the internet page. All that is necessary for calls - headset and sufficien...


Fonolo

Fonolo


fonolo makes it easier and less frustrating to call large companies. fonolo transcribes phone menus from many large companies, so you can scan them...


FreeRinger

FreeRinger


FreeRinger is a calling service which allows you to make free calls to telephone numbers (in more than 30 countries throughout the world) right fro...


FriendShopper

FriendShopper


FriendShopper is a real time social shopping application online, where users can shop any store across the web and communicate about those products...


Fring

Fring


Fring gives you simultaneous freedom of speech and freedom of movement. Freedom to use your mobile phone to its greatest potential. Freedom to seek...


Fuser

Fuser


Fuser develops tools that improve Internet user's digital lifestyles. Fuser tools make it easier to communicate online, whether that means one web-...


Gelato

Gelato


Gelato is real-time search meets online dating. Instead of looking at static, carefully-crafted profiles, you are looking at a real-time stream of ...

realtime

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date

 • 

meet

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Gist

Gist


Gist is an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information a...

email

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tool

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file

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GoldMail

GoldMail


GoldMail provides a simple way to help you bring your messages to life by adding your voice to anything you send or post to the internet, like phot...


Google_Wave

Google_Wave


Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, pho...

tool

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media

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realtime

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Grapevine

Grapevine


The Grapevine vision is to be the universal choice for online collaboration and voice communications with groups of people - and to allow people to...


HelloHealth

HelloHealth


HelloHealth is a revolutionary new experience with your neighborhood doctor. It mix office and online visits to give you personal attention when an...


Hikkup

Hikkup


Hikkup is a tool that allows users to communicate with their friends anonymously.  Users can send messages via email, MySpace, Facebook, Tagged, hi...

ask

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community

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social

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iGrOOps

iGrOOps


iGrOOps is a fresh new take on the 'Internet communities' concept. It’s a web-based information sharing, communication, collaboration, and marketin...


iGuard

iGuard


iGuard is the fastest and easiest way for you to get personalized alerts and updates on the safety of your medicines. iGuard facilitate the virtual...

health

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alert

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virtual

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IM-HISTORY

IM-HISTORY


IM-HISTORY is a web service that enables all Instant Messengers (IM) users to manage their contacts and access their chat histories online. The use...

IM

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chat

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messaging

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IMUnitive

IMUnitive


IMUnitive provides a solution with new features that allow users to generate a link that acts as an anchor station for communication. The link can ...

chat

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IM

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Imvu

Imvu


IMVU is an early stage consumer internet startup in downtown Palo Alto. IMVU makes the world's best 3D instant messenger, which is now in beta test...


Instant-t

Instant-t


Instant-t is multi protocol IM (AIM/ICQ/WLM/YH/GoogleTalk) includes voice and video for contacts from any of these choices. When you create a new I...

chat

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IM

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messaging

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iSkoot

iSkoot


With iSkoot, a mobile phone user gets the power of PC Calling as part of their normal communications capabilities. iSkoot eliminates the need for s...


Jabbify

Jabbify


Jabbify allows you to add IM to your website in few seconds. You can keep your visitors coming back by creating a responsive and dynamic site with ...

chat

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IM

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Jaduka

Jaduka


Jaduka provides Web-integrated communication technology that enhances user experience by merging telephony with interactive media.

mobile

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voice

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audio

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Jobirn

Jobirn


Jobirn is referral network that connects applicants with employees inside the company where they would like to work. Jobirn makes connecting easy t...


Joopz

Joopz


Joopz will lets you send and receive text messages (SMS) from the Web to any mobile phone for free. Joopz actually enables two-way communications f...

mobile

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share

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text

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group

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Jubii

Jubii


Tired of using too many tools to communicate and to share your thoughts? Jubii gets it together! Do it your way - email, chat or call Do it togethe...


Kizmeet

Kizmeet


Kizmeet.com is the only website entirely devoted to helping you find your missed connections. Kizmeet encounters can happen any place, any time. Ma...


klostu

klostu


All the message boards, all the people, all communities: All connected. This is Klostu. Klostu unites all the message boards, making it easier to m...

community

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meet

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Kwippy

Kwippy


With Kwippy you can: - Store status from GTalk, Yahoo messenger - Send posts from Gtalk, Yahoo as Instant messenger - Use it to bookmark URLs - Get...


LocalConnections

LocalConnections


Localconnections was created to help you easily communicate with neighbors in your city, zip code, neighborhood, and building. The platform is fun ...

social

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community

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create

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share

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LoudTalks

LoudTalks


LoudTalks is about voice communication without calls, instant messaging without typing. There are no typos, no calling, no busy signals. And, group...


lyro

lyro


lyro aspires to become the world's largest repository of online business cards – where everybody who’s anybody can be found. Lyro makes it faster a...


Mabber

Mabber


Go communicate everywhere, anytime. Use mabber either on the web or download the mobile client for your Java-enabled phone. Chat away with more sty...


Maxtango

Maxtango


Maxtango is an Ecard service created for the design community to engage, participate and exchange in the fun of sending Ecards. Ecards are Conversa...

card

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community

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fun

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share

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Meebo

Meebo


Meebo, the web messenger that lets you access IM from absolutely anywhere. Meebo supports msn, yahoo, aol/aim, google talk (gtalk), jabber and icq.

chat

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messaging

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IM

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read more


MeGlobe

MeGlobe


MeGlobe was built to diminish language barriers from online communication. The free web client lets you type in your own language, but sends a tran...

IM

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chat

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messaging

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language

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download

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MeltMail

MeltMail


With Melt Mail, you only give your unique Melt Mail address (which forwards to your own), get the desired information and after a defined period of...

email

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messaging

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tool

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Mingle2

Mingle2


Mingle2's intuitive design allows you to quickly and easily able to find, contact, and mingle with other people. This site is not a popularity cont...

date

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meet

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read more


Moonit

Moonit


Moonit is your online destination for relationship compatibility and guidance. Moonit created a tool that produces short, easy-to-digest advice for...


Moot

Moot


Moot is a piece of social software that brings you together with other people who share the same location – a local service for local people. It wo...


MovableLife

MovableLife


MovableLife allows Second Life users to log in to Second Life using only a web browser. MovableLife allows you to chat, IM, search, teleport, manag...


Mozes

Mozes


Mozes connects people to each other and to things they love using the mobile phone and the Internet. Using Mozes, anyone - from brands to bands to ...

mobile

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music

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Muecs

Muecs


Muecs is a website that acts as a platform enabling users to communicate with one another, share their contents and effectively manage their data o...


mySay

mySay


mySay is a phone service for staying in touch with friends. It's a single phone number that lets you: - Record updates for your friends to hear - L...


myYearbook

myYearbook


myYearbook is a new community for teens. It is a great social playground where you can communicate with school friends, upload pictures, stories, v...

social

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community

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photo

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video

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Notifu

Notifu


Send a message to an individual or group, know if the message was received, and gather responses to make quick decisions.

IM

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chat

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messaging

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OggChat

OggChat


OggChat is a live chat solution that integrates directly with GMail and Google Talk. It offers a free version that allows small businesses to inclu...

chat

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live

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messaging

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read more


Olark

Olark


Olark lets visitors to your website chat with you without any extra chat software. Their messages show up in your favorite instant messaging app. O...

chat

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live

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messaging

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read more


ooVoo

ooVoo


ooVoo is a free program that uses technology to bring affordable and high-quality voice communications to people all over the world. ooVoo is a gre...

chat

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audio

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video

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organize

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read more


Orgoo

Orgoo


Manage and organize your internet communications! All your email accounts, IM accounts, chat, SMS, video conferencing and more, integrated in one i...

email

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chat

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IM

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messaging

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read more


PalBee

PalBee


Palbee is a Knowledge Sharing service platform on Video Conferencing format (Videos + Whiteboard). Palbee takes advantage of “Video Conferencing Fo...


Phandy

Phandy


Phandy is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one si...

photo

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exchange

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explore

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read more


Ping.fm

Ping.fm


Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr ...

social

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text

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tool

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PlanetMiniBox

PlanetMiniBox


MiniBox is a range of free, remotely hosted website-extensions to promote and improve your website and to obtain and retain constant traffic. Advan...


Plaxo

Plaxo


Plaxo, keeps people connected by solving the common and frustrating problem of out-of-date contact information. Plaxo provides a free service that ...

management

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secure

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business

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track

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share

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create

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organize

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read more


Pockets

Pockets


With Pockets, you can leave a voicmail message for anyone on Twitter and they'll be notified via @reply.


Postful

Postful


Postful's mission is to be the bridge between the digital and physical worlds. Sending letters is now as easy as sending e-mail. For the times when...


Power

Power


Power.com is a technology platform that aims to integrate social sites and create a common environment for connecting users, communities and conten...


Presently

Presently


Present.ly gives your employees the ability to instantly communicate their current status, ask and answer questions, share media, and more with the...


Pronto!

Pronto!


Pronto! Unifies all forms of Internet communications - from e-mail and IM, to chat, voice, rich media, and groupware - in a sleek, easy-to-use, eas...

email

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IM

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read more


Relenta

Relenta


Use Relenta to organize any and all information required for running your daily life so that nothing is more than one click away


Renkoo

Renkoo


Renkoo is about giving you the Internet experience you want to have. The service lets you use the Web, IM, text messages, and email to communicate ...


ROCKETON

ROCKETON


ROCKETON turning the web into a virtual landscape and individual web sites into fun and unique destinations. You see who is browsing on web sites a...


scr.im

scr.im


Convert your email address into a short, and safe link you can share on the web (in Facebook, Twitter, forums, Craigslist, anywhere), instead of sh...

tinyURL

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email

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social

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Scribe.It

Scribe.It


Scribe.it is a text messaging service which makes group communication fast, easy, and cheap. The service is free, works from any cell phone, and en...

mobile

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share

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text

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group

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read more


Seesmic

Seesmic


Seesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and connect online through video conversation.Join the Seesmic community and experien...


ShareMeme

ShareMeme


ShareMeme allows you to communicate with all of your friends from one place. Using ShareMeme, you can send text messages, G-Chat messages, AIM inst...


Skype

Skype


Skype aims to delight you by offering free global telephony, to make unlimited, superior quality voice calls via its next-generation peer-to-peer s...


Slientale

Slientale


Consolidate your contacts and conversations from multiple platforms, including webmails, social networks and mobiles. Store it all in the Cloud and...


SnapYap

SnapYap


A new way to communicate - Fun, simple, stress free. That's the way technology should be, and at SnapYap, that's the type of experience you'll get....

live

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video

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read more


Snoozester

Snoozester


Snoozester is a company to provide scheduling and notification services. Snoozester’s initial focus was to develop a state-of-the-art, presence-awa...

reminder

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engine

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mobile

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SocialBang

SocialBang


SocialBang is an free online chat, dating chat and games site. It's a new way of communicating online. Meet new people in the free chat rooms and l...


SocialCast

SocialCast


Socialcast helps your employees communicate more effectively by creating private, online communities for businesses of all sizes. The on-demand sof...

social

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business

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knowledge

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Tangler

Tangler


Tangler is an innovative group interaction and communication platform. It's fun, interesting and really useful. It's an instant messaging and commu...


Tatango

Tatango


Tatango is a service that offers the simplest, most effective way for groups to communicate through their mobile phone. As an all in one solution, ...

text

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messaging

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group

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mobile

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TinyChat

TinyChat


TinyChat is a free service that allows you to create a free chat room that is accessible by anyone with a browser. Simply create a chatroom from th...


TodaysMeet

TodaysMeet


Today's Meet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make commen...

meet

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live

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Tokbox

Tokbox


Tokbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video. You just need to sign up and Tokbox gives you a link. When you want ...


toksee

toksee


toksee introducing a revolutionary communication widget that will unify audio, video, instant messaging and other communication technologies. The w...

widget

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social

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messaging

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Topicr

Topicr


Topicr is a utility to improve email communications. You can think of it as a "a layer of services between email communications". It integrates ema...


TringMe

TringMe


TringMe provides a unified platform offering that integrates all the existing voice and telephony communication devices and opens up new avenues to...


Twingr

Twingr


With Twingr, you can create a microblogging community and communicate with friends and other people that share your same interests.


Twitter_Follow_Badge

Twitter_Follow_Badge


Twitter has proven itself to be a great communication channel with your site visitors. This badge calls your users to start following your twitter ...


urFooz

urFooz


urFooz your portable ID that lets you share information across your favorite social networks, blogs and start pages. Easily organize your Web favor...

identity

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profile

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media

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blogging

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mobile

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widget

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community

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fun

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UserPlane

UserPlane


Userplane is the premier provider of communication software for online communities. Five hosted web apps comprise the application suite – each addi...

community

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chat

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search

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AOL

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Vanilla

Vanilla


Vanilla is a simple discussion forum that you can use to build community around your website, brand, or business. You'll have access to a fully fun...

forum

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community

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business

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Voxlite

Voxlite


Voxlite allows you to easily send private video messages to anyone your want. The service is free, all you need is a webcam.


Vyew

Vyew


Vyew is a web service provided by Simulat, inc., a California coporation located in berkeley.CA Simulat provides leading edge technology in network...


WaxMail

WaxMail


Free WaxMail lets you talk instead of type! Your voice messages are attached to Outlook emails (as MP3S) ready to send to any email address. Recipi...


WebbyChat

WebbyChat


WebbyChat can turn an entire website into a chat room. By grouping people based on a site's content, WebbyChat greatly increase the likelihood of r...

chat

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IM

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WeSquare

WeSquare


WeSquare aims to help Skype Prime users who want to sell their service with more flexibility. With their web application, users can: - Sell without...


Wibiya

Wibiya


Wibiya allow users to customize a social toolbar with services, applications and widgets of their choice into their site or blog. The platform offe...


Wiggio

Wiggio


Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: keep shared calendar (with text message remi...


WikiDot

WikiDot


Wikidot is a farm of Wiki Sites. Their mission is to provide free and professional wiki publishing, collaboration and communication solutions to an...


Xumii

Xumii


Xumii is an easy to use and free mobile service that gives you a centralized way to aggregate contacts and feeds from your social networks and IM. ...

messaging

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IM

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social

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read more


YackPack

YackPack


Simplify your connected life the way only YackPack's patented interface can. See at a glance who is in the 'office', and hold a conversation as if ...

mapping

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visual

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community

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audio

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chat

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read more


Yoomba

Yoomba


Yoomba, is an open communications experience that allows you to talk through your email, for free, globally. Yoomba works based on the first propri...


Youmeo

Youmeo


Youmeo is a social media network for anyone which allows you to bring all your social destinations into one place.


YUNiTi

YUNiTi


YUNiTi is a play on the word "unity", which is the primary principle our site is founded on - to bring everything together. People, languages, feat...

community

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connection

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social

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Basecamp

Basecamp


For years project management software was about charts, graphs, and stats. And you know what? It didn’t work. Pictures and numbers don’t get projec...



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