Comments on: Facebook Follows Our Advice, Buys Beluga

By: Minus: Simple Drag-and-Drop Online File Sharing: Online Collaboration «

Minus: Simple Drag-and-Drop Online File Sharing: Online Collaboration « — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:02:33 +0000

[...] of defunct file-sharing service drop.io (a service that was a WWD favorite, until it was bought by Facebook and then discontinued), which also had drag-and-drop functionality and online galleries, although Minus doesn’t [...]

By: Phil4

Phil4 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:50:35 +0000

Check ReChat (Android chat):
- Facebook, Yahoo!®, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP;
- group chat (Yahoo!®, Google Talk, XMPP);
- free SMS worldwide BETA (with replies for USA/Canada);
- plain/bubble view, font packs, send image/video;

Facebook features: upload image/video, send image/video, send message (as private event or wall post).
Yahoo!® features: conferences (create/invite), add/remove contacts.
Google Talk features: group chat, new email notification, unread emails w/o content.
Jabber/XMPP features: rooms (create/invite), add/remove contacts.

By: The Battle for Unified Communications Heats Up: Tech News and Analysis «

The Battle for Unified Communications Heats Up: Tech News and Analysis « — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:02:28 +0000

[...] week, a flurry of announcements about IM, chat and group messaging services preceded the coming showdown at SXSW next week. [...]

By: Messaging App Kik Pulls in $8M As It Expands To Groups: Tech News and Analysis «

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:37:33 +0000

[...] mobile messaging space, already hot with a number of start-ups on a roll and last week’s purchase of Beluga by Facebook, got a little hotter today with news that Kik has raised $8 million from Union Square Ventures, RRE [...]

By: The New Mobile Apps Are All About the Group: Tech News and Analysis «

The New Mobile Apps Are All About the Group: Tech News and Analysis « — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:16:04 +0000

[...] any further evidence that groups will be big for mobile apps in 2011, you need only look as far as Facebook’s recent acquisition of group-messaging app Beluga. Beluga provides users with the ability to chat privately, with the express aim of helping them [...]

By: Will (or Can) RIM Take the Road IBM Once Travelled?: Mobile Technology News «

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:52:11 +0000

[...] original lustre in the face of competitors like Kik (which it tried clumsily to block), and with Facebook poised to get in on the group messaging game, the space is about to get quite [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:09:47 +0000

So do I! Dropbox and Box.net have their place, but they are not the same. I fear it will join the ranks of iView Media Pro (acquired by Microsoft) and Ecco (acquired by NetManage) – excellent programs that went MIA after acquisition.

–Ken

By: Facebook compra Beluga: estrategias envolventes » El Blog de Enrique Dans

Facebook compra Beluga: estrategias envolventes » El Blog de Enrique Dans — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:30:06 +0000

[...] Facebook anuncia la compra de Beluga, un sistema de mensajería de texto para grupos con una interfaz muy elegante creado por tres ex-empleados de Google (Ben Davenport, Lucy Zhang y Jonathan Perlow), y avanza más aún hacia la idea de integrar toda la comunicación de un usuario en una bandeja de entrada única. El sistema, además de integrarse dentro de Facebook para suplementar la comunicación sincrona, se ofrecerá a páginas externas siguiendo la filosofía Facebook Connect de “hacer que el mundo fuera de Facebook funcione igual que dentro de Facebook”, del mismo modo que acaban de empezar a ofrecer la integración del sistema de comentarios. [...]

By: Facebook Continues Its Drive to Own the Conversation: Tech News and Analysis «

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:04:36 +0000

[...] stepping up its efforts to become a key player in the way people communicate online. The first was the acquisition of Beluga, a group-messaging startup that we have written about a number of times here at GigaOM, and the [...]

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:42:54 +0000

God I do miss drop.io