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Jargong mobile IM will Twitter soon
By Vivek | February 21st, 2007 at 04:22 pm ET
Jargong is another Europe based startup launched late last year working on developing mobile IM app. Jargong lets you login and chat with GTalk, MSN, AIM, ICQ, and Jabber buddies from your mobile phone. Nothing new in that. Number of startups are already doing that among other things. However Jargong is trying to go beyond the standard IM space by integrating photo search/upload/view/sharing and RSS feed support into the mobile client.
Another smart part of the service that will be released in the next version, is the integration with Twitter and Jaiku. When the feature goes live, once you connect to your Twitter account with Jargong your status message from Twitter will become your IM status and any changes to the IM status will be reflected onto Twitter. Definitely does cut down on status update at least for 1 application when you need to leave in hurry. From the technology perspective this particular feature is not difficult to implement, but having more such integrations with other social networking platforms can make mobile startups like Jargong stand apart.
As for device support, Jargong primarily supports Sony Ericssons right now with support for Symbian 60s coming up in the next release.
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