{"id":4872,"date":"2006-10-07T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/voim-is-voice-over-im.html"},"modified":"2006-10-07T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T11:30:10","slug":"voim-is-voice-over-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/google\/voim-is-voice-over-im.html","title":{"rendered":"VoIM is Voice over IM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\">VoIM is not an area I have written about too often but it is certainly a space I believe has tremendous opportunity for growth. Certainly this market is bigger than most realize. In fact in a recent <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2006\/06\/02\/1667520.htm\"><u><font color=\"#800080\">article<\/font><\/u><\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> by St&eacute;phane Marceau she pointed out a number of facts that may make you wonder why this area of technology hasn&rsquo;t received more press.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\">The battle for VoIP supremacy has just begun<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\">Microsoft enjoys a massive user base of some 185 million Instant Messaging users Yahoo! is at nearly 100 million<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\">AOL has nearly 50 million users mainly in the\n<place w:st=\"on\"><\/place>\n. <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\">Google has recently started to build its own user base through GoogleTalk, which is a very distant fourth.<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\">Other salient points from the article:<\/p>\n<p>Talking on the phone is a very personal and core human behavior in industrialized societies. The average broadband user spends around 25 per cent of their communication time sending emails and Instant Messages so PC-based communications have also become a core behavior. Nonetheless, the remaining communication time (other than face-to-face) is voice through mobile and fixed phones (75 percent of total communication time representing a staggering 12 to 15 hours per month).<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this market as well as the killer application for VoIM read the full article titled, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2006\/06\/02\/1667520.htm\"><u><font color=\"#800080\">Skype and Other Voice over IM Services: Explosive and Disruptive Platforms.<\/font><\/u><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VoIM is not an area I have written about too often but it is certainly a space I believe has tremendous opportunity for growth. Certainly this market is bigger than most realize. 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