Posts Tagged ‘Messaging’

Tumblr will be rolling out Fan Mail to all users over the next few days, opening up a new channel of communication via interblog messaging.

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It has taken a long time, but text messaging has finally become popular in the United States. Unfortunately, the mobile carriers still want to charge ridiculously high prices for text messaging plans, and with more people now using smartphones, Internet-based messaging apps are becoming popular. Messaging apps like WhatsApp Messenger and Apple’s iMessage provide text [...]

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Group text and picture messaging looks to become a crowded category as 2011 rolls along. Apple started the ball rolling with the announcement (but not the release) of iMessage earlier this summer as part of its iOS 5 announcement. Google provided Huddle as a the group messaging component of Google+ apps for iOS and Android. [...]

Last week at the Google I/O conference MySpace made a significant announcement about integration of their messaging platform with Google Gears to enable searching and sorting of messages. For the longest time, I have been writing that Facebook needs to update their messaging system to make it easier to search and sort through. With the help of Google gears, MySpace has made this type of sorting and searching a reality.

Last week Mike Arrington sugested that MySpace has over 170 million messages sent every day on the service. With some users suffering inbox fatigue, the service has been immediately released for users with at least 5,000 messages in their inbox. Over the coming weeks and months this threshold will be lowered to enable more users to take advantage of the new service.

For those of you that think in code, MySpace has also posted their presentation from last week’s Google I/O conference. This announcement also highlights the strong relationship between Google and MySpace who are both trying to compete with Facebook. While I have yet to use the new message integration, based on the video below, it appears to be a slick application. The only question now is why hasn’t Facebook updated their messaging system?