You can keep conversations publicly open to everyone or keep them private to a group of friends or colleagues. The privacy settings of each conversation can be easily controlled according to you needs.

Using the site is easy, just sign up for an account, type in your message, add emails of participants and click send. Nurphy will then deliver a link of your conversation to people you’ve selected. They can reply to your messages through Nurphy website, using their iPhone or directly from their email.

Demo video:

Features:

• Easily start group conversations and share with others.
• Create as many conversations as you want.
• Clean design and user friendly interface.
• Keep you conversations open to public or private to a group of people.
• Privacy settings of each conversation can be easily controlled according to you needs.
• Free, registration required.
• Similar tools: Tgethr, Re:Subj and Phuser.

Check out Nurphy @ www.nurphy.com

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• Re:Subj – Easy Online Group Discussion Tool
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• ShareFlow: Online Group Messaging and Collaboration
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• CC:Betty: Easily Organize Your Email Attachments Online

Features

• Create interactive message boards.
• Add message boards to your website.
• Real-time chat and discussion.
• Post text, images, files, videos, tasks and polls.
• Send posts via email and get reply notifications.
• Easily embeddable via widget / API.
• Similar sites: WallWisher.

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A flow creator controls who is a part of the conversation. No one gets off-topic messages and only the relevant people become part of the flow. Once you join a flow, you can post comments, documents, emails, events, maps and media files, all in one place. All the attached files can be viewed with a built-in document viewer by anyone without installing any additional software.

You can post content to the flow from your computer or from a mobile phone. To try, sign up for a Free plan that offers 25 MB of storage, unlimited members and lets you create up to 5 flows. You can upgrade at any time to one of their paid plans that start from $20/month, offer more storage and more flows.

Features:

• Follow relevant conversation threads (”flow”) instead of sending and forwarding messages.
• Flow creator controls who is part of the conversation. Add and remove people from the flow at any time.
• Only relevant people participate in the flow and are not bothered by off-topic information.
• Create multiple flows to organize different projects and teams.
• Attach files (images, documents, media files, charts, maps etc) to the conversation.
• Preview files right within the flow via built-in document viewer.
• View all the relevant pieces of conversation in one place -comments, files and participants.
• Share your emails from Yahoo!Mail, Live Mail, Gmail on a flow by installing a bookmarklet.
• Follow your conversations from your PC or from your mobile.

Check out ShareFlow @ www.zenbe.com/shareflow

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• iPaper@Scribd : Document Email Attachments Made Simple
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• CC:Betty: Easily Organize Your Email Attachments Online

Features :

• Easily start group discussion online.
• No sign up, only emails required.
• Add or reply to messages through your email.
• Cool features like threaded comments and private inboxes.
• No need to go through the old emails to reply to a comment. Keep a track of the whole discussion.
• Similar website: Phuser.

Check out Re:Subj @ www.resubj.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Nurphy: Group Conversations Made Easy
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• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• Wis.dm: Ask Fun Questions and Get Quick Answers
• Voxli: Group Voice Chatting Made Really Simple

How it works:

1. Setup your group by picking a group email address (ex: project1@tgethr.com) and enter email addresses of people who should be included
2. Whenever you send a message to the group email address, everyone on the list automatically gets a copy
3. You can attach photos, videos etc. All the messages and files are archived online.

Once you setup your account you can communicate with members either by posting messages from the website or by sending or replying to emails to your group email address. All the messages are archived online, in case you want to access them later.

Basic free account lets you create one group address, up to 5 users and 25 discussions per month. Paid accounts (starting from $6/month) let you have more groups, users and more.

Features:

• Easy to use email collaboration tool.
• Email to one address and reach everyone.
• Attach photos, videos etc.
• All the messages and files automatically archived online.
• Free account is limited to 5 users and 25 discussions per month.
• Paid account offer more groups, users, messages and secure email communication.

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• CC:Betty: Easily Organize Your Email Attachments Online

textPlus sends texts using real SMS messaging, so you can even chat with your friends who don’t have iPhones. You can invite your friends from your iPhone contacts or enter phone numbers manually. It also lets you write texts in landscape mode.

Feature overview :

• Free texting from iphone and iPod Touch.
• Send free text messages from iPhone to several friends at once.
• Send unlimited number of texts at no cost.
• Sends texts over wifi — no cell, edge or 3G required.
• Real group conversation, hence everyone gets every message like an instant chat room.
• You can chat with your friends who do not have an iPhone.
• Lets you write text in landscape mode.

Check out textPlus @ www.beta.gogii.com/v/textplus (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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All that user has to do is quickly install browser client and then assign a hot key which he presses whenever he wants to speak. (the hot key works regardless of which application is open).

The application allows 200 people per chat room and there is no limit on the number of chat rooms created (each room can be assigned separate hot key).

Features:

• Free online group voice chat for gamers and groups.
• Allows 200 people per chat room.
• No limit on the number of rooms.
• Invite others by forwarding a URL, (URL can also be customized).
• Requires quick installation of browser add-on.
• Voxli works on IE and Firefox (both Mac and Windows) support for other browsers is on the way.
• No registration and free for all group sizes during open beta.

Check out Voxli @ www.voxli.com (via TechCrunch)

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• Talkster : Free Long Distance Calling
• Switchboard : Browser-to-Browser Internet Phone
• PermaTime: Easily Schedule Meeting Time Across Time Zones
• Foonz : Free Group Calls
• EasyTZ: Conference Call Scheduler with Time Zone Conversion

Tatango also offers a pro account with more features like scheduled messages and custom integration at a low monthly cost of $4.95. As you could see in the above screenshot, the user interface is simple and easy to use. This service has already attracted large groups like sports teams, schools, musicians and organizations to foster easy communication among themselves.

Check out Tatango @ www.tatango.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Swaggle : Simple Group Text Messaging
• Peekamo
• NetworkText: Text Messaging for Groups

Features:

• Send group phone messages for free.
• Schedule and send as many messages as you want.
• Add short media files to your messages (from PC or AbbyMe library).
• Scheduler: Schedule reminders and birthday calls in advance.

Check out AbbyMe @ www.abbyme.com

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• Twitsay : Send Voice Messages to Twitter
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Before you can get started, all you need to do is create the Twitsay account. For this you’ll need your twitter username and password, and the phone number that you will be calling from. Depending on your location there are four different numbers you can use to call Twitsay:

• From United States call +1 646 912 7676
• From United Kingdom call +44 845 867 6679
• From Germany call +49 180 1020 650 681
• From Austria call +43 720 702 580
• More countries coming soon.

Once you leave the message it will appear on your Twitter account. Both you and your followers will be able to listen to it.

Keep in mind that while the Twitsay service is absolutely free, you may be charged by your services provider (for making a call) at standard local rates.

Go to Twitsay @ www.twitsay.com

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Features:

• Send group messages from instant messenger, email or mobile phone.
• Add contacts and create as many groups as you need.
• Manage and edit groups online.
• Group members are free to opt out from the froup at any time.
• IM support: At the moment Chatterous supports only GTalk.
• Coming soon: MSN, AIM and support for other instant messaging networks.
• Mobile Support: Works with US carriers only (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Virgin and Alltel).
• It’s free

Check out Chatterous @ [ www.chatterous.com ]

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• WatchItToo: View Photos & Watch Videos Together

Swaggle Features

• Send free SMS messages to groups.
• Create as many groups as you like.
• Accessible both from web and mobile phone: create/join groups, invite people, send messages etc.
• SMS commands: Use short text commands to add contacts, create groups, join groups etc.
• Avaialble only within United States

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Feature List

• Send group text messages from PC or cell phone (text messaging fees may apply).
• Organize contacts into different groups (friends, colleagues, lab team, gym, etc.)
• Send unlimited number of text messages to an as many contacts as you want.
• Invite friends to NetworkText by uploading a list with up to 100 contacts at once.
• When a user joins some group, the only piece of information that is visible to the group creator is the users name. Phone numbers always remain anonymous.
• Currently available only in US and Canada. More countries will be included soon.
• Note: All NetworkText messages include a very short advert at the end of each text message.
• For additional info check out NetWorkText tour.

[Video] NetworkText Introduction

Check out NetworkText @ www.networktext.com

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How It Works ?

• Sign-up for free Pinger account.
• 2. Simply dial (858) 2PINGER or your own ‘Pinger Send number’.
• 3. Say the name of the people or group you want to message.
• 4. Say your message after the beep and hang up the phone.

Feature Overview

• Sned free voice messages to any mobile phone.
• Send voice messages to a group of people with just one call.
• Forward received messages to others.
• Access and Manage your messages, contacts and Pinger settings online.
• PingerCast: Broadcast rich voice messages directly to thousands of mobile phones (fans, supporters, etc.).
• Import contacts from: Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, Mac Address Book, Microsoft Entourage, AOL Mail, Thunderbird, Palm Desktop, Outlook, or any mobile phone.
• Works with almost all carriers and mobile phones.
• Custom Pinger cleints for Palm Treo and Balckberry users.
• More Questions ? Go to Pinger FAQ page.

Pinger Users

Pinger Demo

Check out Pinger @ www.pinger.com

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Feature Overview

• Send one message and reach all of your friends, on any device (mobile, instant messaging client, email, or all of them).
• Send messages (or event invitations) from PC or mobile phone.
• Recipients can reply from phone, email or IM program (Trumpia membership not required).
• Organize contacts into groups, i.e. work, friends, family, and so on.
• Import email contacts from your Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and other address books.
• Register up to 6 communication tools (email, MSN, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, mobile).
• Keep contact details and phone numbers anonymous.

Trumpia Demo Video

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Boston Herald: “Now everyday people can talk with friends and family to plan an event or hash out the day’s events on the phone all at once with no additional cost to you.”

How It Works ?

• Sign-up and create Foonz account.
• Create different contact groups (family, friends, team, etc.) and get a unique Foonz number for each group.
• Call unique group number to start a group call, or send a group voice message.

Additional Foonz features:

• Add friends to your Foonz contact list and get one-to-all ‘Foonz number’.
• When you start a group call each contact receives a text message along with the number they need to dial to get connected.
• No restriction on the number of people you can invite to a group call.
• Note Foonz is a free service, but your standard phone minutes still apply. So it literally doesn’t cost any more to use foonz than to use your regular phone.
• Got questions? See How It Works page.

Check out Foonz @ www.foonz.com

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Peekamo Features

• Send single and group (upto 7 people) text SMS’s from your PC. You can also do the same from your mobile but in this case regular rates apply.
• Higher privacy: Messages are sent using peekamo ID, but people are able to respond back.
• Mobile social networking option allows you to connect to people either through the phone or online
• Unlimited text archive: Archive/Print your text messages
• and more …

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