http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/ Tech and Money Blog Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:09:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-80762 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:33:22 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-80762 [...] Webpage chat/file sharing dai.sy, Gabbly, Zpeech, Pladeo (formerly InCircles) [...] […] Webpage chat/file sharing dai.sy, Gabbly, Zpeech, Pladeo (formerly InCircles) […]

]]> http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-61252 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:08:32 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-61252 [...] InCircles, which had changed it’s name to Pladeo recently, has also jumped onto the Facebook platform. While the idea of chat on a profile page might sound interesting, Pladeo has yet to fix the old issues of usability. [...] […] InCircles, which had changed it’s name to Pladeo recently, has also jumped onto the Facebook platform. While the idea of chat on a profile page might sound interesting, Pladeo has yet to fix the old issues of usability. […]

]]> http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-28458 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:54:43 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-28458 [...] I had written about InCircles.com last year when it had launched it’s widget based chat client through which users can chat with others on the page it is installed on. While the idea looked interesting to start with, but was not able to get traction with users. Why?  ’Cause unknown entities don’t really have anything to exchange besides “test” or “asdfasdf” or “123123123″ or “hello”. Once those kind of messages start showing up, anyone can tell where the community effect is headed. Now the saving part here is that InCircles team has realized the shortcoming and planning on marking some serious upgrades to the widget. First among which is change of name. InCircles will become Pladeo in the next few days. As part of the real upgrades, the Pladeo widget will be able to manage content, play video, chat over video, create avatars, view profiles and communities. Unlike the previous anonymous user based system, Pladeo will enable creation of profiles while site owners will get access to sophisticated analytics tools to monitor all their video distribution activity, user demographics data, and dialog traffic. Later part of feature set is definitely dependent on how big the community grows. [...] […] I had written about InCircles.com last year when it had launched it’s widget based chat client through which users can chat with others on the page it is installed on. While the idea looked interesting to start with, but was not able to get traction with users. Why?  ’Cause unknown entities don’t really have anything to exchange besides “test” or “asdfasdf” or “123123123″ or “hello”. Once those kind of messages start showing up, anyone can tell where the community effect is headed. Now the saving part here is that InCircles team has realized the shortcoming and planning on marking some serious upgrades to the widget. First among which is change of name. InCircles will become Pladeo in the next few days. As part of the real upgrades, the Pladeo widget will be able to manage content, play video, chat over video, create avatars, view profiles and communities. Unlike the previous anonymous user based system, Pladeo will enable creation of profiles while site owners will get access to sophisticated analytics tools to monitor all their video distribution activity, user demographics data, and dialog traffic. Later part of feature set is definitely dependent on how big the community grows. […]

]]> http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-1860 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:34:16 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-1860 [...] Weezu is another startup offering chat services for users located on a web page. Earlier I had written about inCircles widget based messaging platform and Netscape’s use of Userplane to provide similar chat services. Besides these we also have Me.dium, which is currently in private beta mode, offering a Firefox extension to enable communication on a particular or similar webpage. [...] […] Weezu is another startup offering chat services for users located on a web page. Earlier I had written about inCircles widget based messaging platform and Netscape’s use of Userplane to provide similar chat services. Besides these we also have Me.dium, which is currently in private beta mode, offering a Firefox extension to enable communication on a particular or similar webpage. […]

]]> http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-830 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:42:23 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-830 [...] What others are saying. Grain of Salt StartupSquad.com Monday November 27th 2006 Filed under: chat, flash, MySpace friendly [...] […] What others are saying. Grain of Salt StartupSquad.com Monday November 27th 2006 Filed under: chat, flash, MySpace friendly […]

]]> http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-788 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:01:42 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2006/11/21/incircles-concurrent-chat-groups-people-with-similar-interests/#comment-788 I like this, it's got most of the basics right. The other flash IM widgets require signups, etc... They're worthless in my opinion. I like this, it’s got most of the basics right. The other flash IM widgets require signups, etc… They’re worthless in my opinion.

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