iSkoot acquires social networking client Social.IM
iSkoot, a provider of carrier-friendly Internet voice calling services, has acquired Social.IM for an undisclosed price.
The move takes the mobile company, which we profiled earlier this year, in a new direction. San Francisco-based iSkoot provides voice-over-Internet-protocol, or VoIP, phone service on mobile phones. It offers services such as Skype on phones with a wireless carrier’s blessings because it uses the carrier’s network to complete a web call.
Social.IM, meanwhile, has a social networking instant messenger client…. Continue Reading
Social.im turns your social networking contacts into IM contacts
Social.im is an instant messaging service that turns your Facebook friends — and potentially friends on any social network — into IM contacts.
In other words, you don’t need to use a standard IM client such as AIM or GTalk, you can rely on your social network. First, you download Social.im software to your desktop. The software connects to Facebook’s servers, identifies your friends there and displays them in an IM-like list. You can start IM-ing… Continue Reading