One of the newest AHLLC clients, thanks to our direct client, crayon, is ooVoo, a startup videoconferencing and instant messaging application that is providing users with a couple more options than its competitors.

In this day and age, people are always looking for the next best thing, or the new cutting edge features ooVoo allows video chats with up to 6 participants in real time, and unlike its biggest competitor Skype Video, does not use a P2P network. Like IM, you can send text messages and files.

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In an article onBusinessWeek.com titled Ebay’s Skype Bubble Bursts the author talks to the failure and major shuffles at Skype over the past week.

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A couple of brothers by the name of Maisols have developed a free online phone service similar to Skype which has been dubbed “pudding”. Well let me clarify “free” online phone service. Each customer’s conversations will be monitored and interesting tidbits of adverstising will appear on the screen during the exchange that relate to the conversation. Let’s say I’m chatting with my friend about movies I’ve recently seen, then advertisements for movies would begin to pop up. Leave it to a couple of brothers who “spent several years doing intelligence work for the Israeli military” (New York Times) to develop a product that boarder lines on a complete disregard for privacy.

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Okay, so skype took a dive for a couple of days. That sucks…I even had to resort to using my good old (and very reliable) land line to call my pops in SA - and it cost me money man…like 9cents a minute.

Anyway, so what does this mean for Google Talk? Do you think this will migrate more people over to that service? I have never utilized the google talk feature but have always wondered how many people do. I would think that it offers some competition though skype definitely has the upper hand. These kind of crashes of a service can completely refigure a market. However my guess is we will all return to our normal skype ways and do what we normally do.