Orgoo is an all-in-one communications hub for email, instant messaging, video chat, and SMS that we’ve been waiting quite a long time for.
Mike first covered the USC-bred startup in May 2007 before you could get your AIM contacts into Gmail. And then the company “launched” at TechCrunch40 in the fall with a presentation that emphasized the importance of aggregating all your means of communication.
However, the only part of Orgoo actually available to the public is its proprietary group chat product. That’s about to change: Co-founder Sean Rad tells us that he plans to launch Orgoo towards the end of June, with group chat integrated as an important differentiator.
Until then, he is offering 500 private beta invites to our readers. Get yours here while they last, and then be generous: users can invite up to six of their friends (or InviteShare peers).
Also see Zenbe for another example of startup-driven webmail innovation, although one that takes quite a different tact by focusing on advancements around email itself.
Geez, it asks for one’s passwords and isn’t even providing https security…
Mark: does this concern you?
I signed up, started to enter my details and then thought, “Do I really want an unknown company holding all of my passwords to my accounts?”
Think I’ll wait until Google buys them.
RR
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The problem I see with such services right now is credibility: If I switch all my communication life over to zenbe or orgoo - will it last?
WTF means Orgoo? You want to start with a great product people, first start with a class on Marketing 101, WTF with the name?
This start-up really rocks !
and @ Roberts !
If you don’t want to enter your details in this “unknown company” which you call it. Then you can probably assume that your are dumb. Stop visiting TechCrunch and stop registering for start-up companies if you are too concerned about your personal info.
It sounds like what Yahoo is trying to do with its “rewiring” project.
Looks like a cool service… thanks Hendrickson!
@5 Have you ever tried to register a domain name? Its slim pickings out there, so unless you want to spend thousands of dollars to get a “good” domain name you have to choose either something complicated involving “the/a”, “-”, actual word + extra letter or you can come up with something by yourself.
Orgoo really isn’t that bad, simple to remember and only 3 different letters
lol @2 create your account now because after google buys it, you won’t be able to create a new account for about 1 or 2 years after the acquisition (see Jaiku)
Orgoo, the FriendFeed of Email accounts.
Look like “Orgoo” derived from “Yahoo”
Even web interface blatantly copied from yahoo..
About time fore these kind of service. Been trying http://www.jubii.com for awhile, and it looks promising to. You might wanna check that out as well.
i tried it and i do NOT recommend it. i wasn’t sold on it.
Great idea for a personal communication aggregator! However, if such a site is going to ‘hold the keys to one’s kingdom’, they will definitely need to show some security savvy to allay concerns of data privacy/security They can start with the basics of SSL (HTTPS) at least for initial login, and account data entry. One can only question their overall security consciousness….
Their blog says it means infinite organization (ORG = organization and OO = infinity).
http://orgooblog.com/archives/.....name-orgoo
@9 I agree, but there is a thing called creativity, I mean YouTube is creative, and sounds good, got the idea? Is not tvoko or something.
When to go get an invite, seems that 500 went really quick.
I am an alpha user of Orgoo and I am happy to share the news that Orgoo is a Pakistani startup and it is developed totally in Pakistan.
For more information, please have a look at:
http://greenwhite.org/2007/09/.....s-toolkit/
Never mind I didnt realize I was a beta tester before this.
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Yep, limit of 500 reached. That went quick!
Wouldn’t an “all-in-one communication hub” also let you read rss feeds, or post (micro-)blog messages? I mean, that’s still personal communication, right? Just with a global audience? Anybody know where I can do all of these things from one place? Or should I just im twitter from gmail, and install the greasemonkey script to read my rss feeds from gmail? It’s still not all there…
Orgoo is a stupid name no matter what
Try harder next time
In this day and age a whole idea can be copied in a matter of days.
The most marketable one wins, see jaiku and twitter
Jaiku is better, twitter has punch
dang, i was gonna dive in until irfan spoke up …
“Jaiku is better” — depends on culture and rhymes with what..
In Chinese Mandarin, Jaiku sounds like Zaiku which means “am crying”
Way to be extremely late to the game guys. How about inventing something new?
It will be more useful when I can use my live.com and yahoo mail through it. As of now you need to have plus accounts for each of those services.
Orgoo stand for “organisation” (org) and “infinity” (oo), thus, “infinite organization”.
Orgoo consists of just three different letters.
Yahoo made the double o popular and everyone knows how to write Yahoo correctly. Yahoo consists of four different letters.
Therefore orgoo is a good, easy to remember name with a meaning that fits to the business activity of orgoo.
All those who critize this name without a reason belong to those who shoot first and then thinks.
Are you really going to write up Orgoo and not mention that their UI is a clone of the new Yahoo! Mail?
Does anybody have an invite left for me?
info at crunchlabz dot com
Thanks.
So I’m going to give all my passwords to an unknown Pakistani startup. A company whose only product doesn’t use basic security and is covered by a half-assed poorly researched tech blog?
Right…..
their name sounds like - orkut+yahoo=or(g)oo
as Sam said - UI is similar to yahoo
@29 Michael, thanks but the average user is not that smart to get the idea for just the name.
good news…there are many invites left on gigaom -
http://www.orgoo.com/Signup?network=gigaom
We take all possible measures to ensure privacy and security for our users. At the network level 128 bit SSL is used to transfer user credentials to our servers (observe the URL changing to secure.orgoo.com when logging in), all the servers are behind Firewall (in DMZ), all the passwords are stored as encrypted using the standard AES algorithm, physical security is provided by our top of the line data center, and managed Software updates are performed to ensure application and node level security.
Dang they’re all gone! So does anyone have an invite they want to send me?
deathbyzen [at] [google email] [dot] com
Oh, bye the way , using SSL for http means using https.
to sign up on Znbe I did not need to follow the link (actually I did and got the “sold out” message) but when I followed the sign in process I actually got activated…
this smells like an inside Job, no way this startup is worth any hype. @Shahzad I think the point people are trying to make is that you should establish the SSL link on the home page since that’s where my login credentials are going (not afterwards), it would provide a little help with phishing and who cares if you are using AES or just SHA1 like most sites
No More Invites? Boo hoo!
@37
I call Shenanigans on your security.
On the contrary, something seems really wrong with your security when I can completely bypass the login to get in to an account. I certainly wouldn’t use this service on a public computer until you guys explain the folllowing:
Log out of your orgoo session by clicking “logout”, close the browser, reopen the browser, type “http://orgoo.com/Welcome?r=1″ and be placed directly back into your account without entering a new password.
I don’t have “remember me on this computer” checked on the login page, yet someone with access to my computer can easily login after me, even if I have logged out.
Also, where exactly are you using SSL to encrypt data from my machine to yours?
“although one that takes quite a different tact “..I think you mean ‘tack’ (it’s a sailing thing…)
If someone has an invite left, I’d like to get one.
LurkingDeath@web.de
Thx!
Orgoo sounds cool, but I haven’t had success getting into the closed beta. Another site that does a good job of aggregating emails and social network messages is Fuser.com. The site has some minor issues, but it’s current state is very functional and it supports email protocols beyond POP/IMAP.
Anyone have any extra invites and wouldn’t mind sending one this way? craig081785 @ gmail
Thanks!
@43
Thanks for pointing that out Robert. The way Orgoo has been designed to work is that if the user is not inside the application(e.g. as a result of closing the browser), s/he automatically gets disconnected from our servers after a few minutes. So the welcome link wont have worked after some time. But you were correct, it should not work at all after the user logs out.
We have already fixed the problem and it should be now working as expected. Again thanks for pointing this out.
The reason I switched to gmail in the first place was that my emails of the same ‘conversation’ were grouped together. With orgoo my gmail emails are again different emails (very annoying). Not sure if this feature will be added and what’s the timeline?
Xobni is already doing ‘conversations’ for outlook email.
Read Orgoo from inside apart:
http://pingmycompany.com/Orgoo-Inc..htm