Today, online communications offerings like Yahoo, Windows Live Messenger and Skype exist as part of closed networks – in order to communicate with users on each network you are required to register, download an application and create another new identity for yourself. Once you are a member, you need to search and add contacts to that network one by one. If your friends or colleagues are not on that network, you need to persuade them to join or you need to join theirs in order to communicate with them.
Yoomba, a new open communications experience that turns any email address into a phone or messenger, will be launching this summer. The service consists of a peer-to-peer proprietary topology that sits on top of all email networks. Unlike existing closed networks, with Yoomba you don’t need to register or give away any personal information, so there’s no need to create yet another online identity.
For people who spend much of their time in front of a PC, Yoomba has build a unique and simple solution to this problem, instantly communicating with any email address, by voice or chat for free. There is no registration required, no new identity and you get instant access to all your contacts immediately.
Yoomba was developed in Israel. It is a proprietary peer-to-peer topology which overlays all email networks and provides one global network that all email addresses are a part of. It is the first open standard for any community, reaches anyone you wish to contact and it is all for free.
What makes Yoomba different from all of those standard instant messengers?
- Yoomba is a completely free open communications experience
- Yoomba is the first proprietary peer2peer network that sits on top of any email networks
- Yoomba is the only open communications experience that allows you to talk through email globally
- Only Yoomba allows you to enter an email address to call a contact
- Yoomba turns any email address into a phone or instant messenger
- Yoomba offers a free communications experience
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[...] Yoomba - Once you have downloaded the app, whenever an email is on your screen, Yoomba will recognise it and put 2 icons next to it, phone and IM. I’ll let Digital Inspiration explain it: “…you provide your email to Yoomba and download a small client which is pre-activated and won’t ask you to setup an account or login. When you click the Yoomba button near any email address, an invitation request is sent to the other person - he or she can download Yoomba and connect with you almost instantly over voice or text messaging.”…see more. [...]
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