It was almost exactly two years ago that my colleague Robin Wauters first wrote about a service called Imo with the title: IMO.IM Is The Best IM Web Service You've Never Heard Of. I'll be honest, I didn't listen to him at the time (though, to be fair, I didn't even work at TechCrunch yet). He followed up a few months later when the service added Facebook chat support. But since then, they sort of dropped off our radar. So it's time tonight to give them some more love, because the service really is pretty great ? and after three years in alpha, they're finally dropping that label.
The idea is super simple: Imo is an IM client that allows you to sign in to many different types of IM accounts at once, all managed through their service. Obviously, there are many services like this out there. But the key to Imo is that it's fast and easy to use. I mean really easy. All you have to do is enter your user name and passwords for the different services and you're off and running in a way that's very seamless.
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