The posterboy of the Web 1.0 era is back. After the successful buyout of hotmail, Sabeer worked on couple of things, which dint click well. He ran Arzoo and then he made InstaColl but nothing matches along with his hotmail success. Going thru the news read at agencyfaqs!, it seems he is now back with VoiFi. VoiFi Beta, is an instant messaging (IM) service and a peer-to-peer telephony software that also offers calls for Re 1 from any part of the world to India. This is like Skype or Yahoo! with entertainment added in. I am unsure about the success of this, since there are more wannabe services available competing the slice of what Skype dominated once. The biggies Google, Microsoft, Yahoo along with smaller players like Voipbuster, Wengo are all competing on the same turf.
In addition going thru the news, that he is relaunching his Arzoo, [something similar to Yahoo! answers but happened in post dot com crash] as a travel portal. Now the online travel portal business is more competitive. Already some of the leading VCs funded online travel businesses. Now we need to see the implications of having one or two more portals in the same space. He is also busy in working on a freeware to make “hotmail” work faster 🙂
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Jim, checked out the teen patty. i liked War zone. the 1 re. feature is outstanding. when is it being launched btw?
Overall its ok.
Hey, this looks promising to me. I checked the card game, it’s cool, something called Teen Paty or something like that. Other games are kinda okey too. I am eagerly waiting for the Re. 1 / min offer from my country to Indiea. Hope they will come up with this soon.
Jim
Sameer, have you tried voipbuster. check that that seems to be cool and better. Also, there is an open source alternative for Skype, grrrrrrrrrrr… i forgot the name of the utility.
Guys this things crashes all the time. Looks like still needs some bug fixing.
Looks like an interesting tool. We were looking for a tool other than skype which allows PC-tp-PC voice conferencing, and were unable to find a even a decent alternating. This looks promising. Thanks!