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fring- talk, chat and interact with Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Facebook, Yahoo!™ and AIM®

I have another really interesting tech helper to tell you about:   fring- talk, chat and interact with Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Facebook, Yahoo!™ and AIM®.

It’s a very cool Meebo-like grouping of messenging tools, a way of doing Google’s chat while you’re on your mobile phone.  “Interact via all your social networks directly from one, combined buddy list & profile!“  Much cheaper than texting, unless you have unlimited texting.  It seems to have a low-key but pretty serious glitch, though, the kind of glitch that breaks up relationships and business deals, so here’s  your heads-up: if one person sends a text while the other person is logging out, the text looks to the sender like it was sent, but it gets received as being fresh and new the next time the receiver logs in to fring.  In theory, sounds like no big deal, but just imagine saying “I love you” for the first time and your beloved doesn’t answer.  When they get it the next day, they think you are too wimpy to say it “to their face.”  Or, in a business scenario, imagine you change your order for your shoe store from 500 pairs of Manolo Blancos to 100.  Your vendor gets it the next day and thinks More »

Tools to Boost Your Productivity on Twitter » TweetLater.com

Tools to Boost Your Productivity on Twitter » TweetLater.com.

This was recommended to me by Rob Bailey, in some follow-up after a teleseminar with Juliette Powell, social marketing expert.  Juliette, of course, had recommended using appropriate social networking to boost marketing, sales, market research, inter-office communication, and build community.  She mentioned using 3rd party apps (applications) to speed up the process, since it can be mundane and time-consuming, by using Twitter via mobile phone to generate info, which the 3rd party apps disseminate to Facebook, blogs, etc.

Meebo Chat Center – Time Saver

Making good use of social marketing and their chat features but tired of scanning through multiple sites and trying to keep up?  Try Meebo.  It’s what  we would call a chat condenser application.  You register all your chat sites, for instance from Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, AIM, etc., and then go to the centralized Meebo location to chat with all of them.

Here’s a screenshot to give you an idea of how it works:

Meebo.com screenshot

As Meebo says, it’s free, there are no More »

Time Tracking Software Update

We found a time tracking software that we like

and have been using for a few days – it’s called Baralga and it’s an open source software.  What’s open source mean?  It’s free software that is written so that anyone can modify it.

What we like about Baralga for time tracking is this: More »

VoxOx.com | Take Control

Looks like a centralizing tool for VOIP (like Vonnage or Skype (which we highly recommend), email, social networking (like Facebook, etc.), video calling, etc.

VoxOx.com | Take Control.

What do you think?  Have you tried VoxOx?

These types of online tools are great time and money savers and are extremely effective marketing and sales tools.  They are also great for intra-company communications, and for running a virtual team.

What do you use them for?  Which tools do you use?