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Dialoggs - Finally a possible solution for productive communication
Brandon Davenport
As a blog with 11+ writers, it’s hard to find a good tool to allow seamless communication with fellow Okay Geek editors and staff. Sure email works alright most of the time, but it’s messy, bloated, time consuming (really time consuming) and distracting. Then there is the lightweight ability to quickly shoot out a DM on Twitter, but there you’re limited to 140 characters, so efficient communication often results in sporatic broken conversations that take a bit of work to understand. What Dialoggs wants to do is create a closed inviornment for focused, un-restricted and lightweight discussion for creative teams - here’s what you need to know.
What is Dialoggs?
Now just a heads up for people drooling over the screenshot above, Dialoggs hasn’t really been created or launched yet as it’s still a startup looking for funding on KickStarter ($15,000). Dialoggs creator Drew Wilson is widely known for creating fantastic web services like Quixly, Firerift and Yoggrt and always staying true to his close attention to detail. We’re pretty confident that Dialoggs will have a successful launch, but time will tell if it’s truly a viable communication platform.
Now you may be thinking “this is another one of those social network reliant web 2.0 services that inevitably fade out weeks later after launch” and from what we’ve learned, Drew plans to create Dialoggs to be a completely independant web service. Drew describes Dialoggs as “It is NOT a client for Twitter or any other network. It is it’s own network. It’s built from the ground up to be all about easily communicating with others.”
It’s really refreshing to see a new web service not reliant on other websites or APIs and it’s also nice to see that it’s not taking the “sign up early viral scheme thing” approach. Dialoggs appears to be a genuine, original web service in the making and we’re excited to see how it turns out.
Drew Wilson on Dialoggs - via KickStarter
dialog.gs — A new network for better communication. Filling the gap between: Twitter, iChat & Tumblr.
It is NOT a client for Twitter or any other network. It is it’s own network. It’s built from the ground up to be all about easily communicating with others. That means it’s in realtime, you can invite others to join a group discussion, all posts are permanently saved and will have their own page, like Tumblr. You can have private discussions as well. Your posts can optionally be auto sent out to your Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. You can attach multiple photos, videos and code snippets to a post. You can follow and be followed. You can recommend users to your followers. You can browse users recommended to you by people you follow. You can publicly “mention” people in your posts or private message any user.
It’s more than just status updates, and it’s much more than a static blog with comments. It’s the best of both world. It’s realtime communication that is permanently stored and (optionally) publicly available.
Any group discussion (called a “Dialogg”) and any normal post can be made private. You can even limit a group discussion to certain users and create private brainstorming sessions. Or have an open discussion group with anyone to talk about something you saw on Twitter. You can even use group discussions to create a feed of catered content (like Uncrate.com) since each group discussion will have it’s own unique page.
Dialoggs will be a free service for anyone to use without paying anything to sign up.
