draw with your friends with imo whiteboard

You can now draw and chat with your friends with imo whiteboard!

What is a whiteboard?
whiteboard is a collaborative application that lets imo.im users create drawings, diagrams, and text documents with your friends in real-time.

How do I start?

Click on the whiteboard link.



A new window will pop up. Click on the create a whiteboard link.



Start drawing/typing!



Click on the share link. You can choose to give your friends full control, write access,or read-only access. You can also switch to text mode by clicking the go to text mode link.




What are some ways to use whiteboard?
You can use whiteboard to draw or play games (i.e. tic-tac-toe, hangman) with your friends. You can also use whiteboard in conjunction with imo.im's text, voice, or video chat to discuss math (and other) problems with your colleagues. If you have any other cool ideas on how to use whiteboard, please let us know!

broadcast your messages on imo.im

We just released a simple and free advertising system for our users called imo.im broadcasts!

What is a broadcast?
A broadcast is a piece of user-generated content that allows imo.im users to advertise messages without being required to display personal information. Once a user creates a broadcast, it will be shown automatically to others who have selected the same language preference.

Features

• one broadcast per user account
• each broadcast consists of a title, url, message, and display icon
• broadcasts expire after 7 days, but can be renewed
• users can force their active broadcasts to expire

• ability to view broadcasts of other users
• broadcasts automatically refresh to display new content
• users can hide broadcasts they don't like

• broadcast statistics
• number of views--number of times your broadcast was shown
• number of hovers--number of times users moused over your broadcast to view your message
• number of clicks--number of times users clicked on your broadcast

How do I start?

Click on create broadcast.


Choose a user account from the drop down menu (you get one broadcast per user account).


Type in a title, url, message, and upload a display icon. Click on the post message button and you are all set!



Click on the my broadcasts tab to view your broadcast statistics: number of views, number of hovers, and number of clicks. Your broadcast will expire in 7 days, but you can click on the renew button to renew your broadcast. You can also terminate your broadcast at any time by clicking the clear button.



We try to keep these broadcasts interesting by automatically refreshing them to display new content. However, if you don't like seeing broadcasts on the bottom of your imo page, just click hide broadcasts, and they will minimize.



What can I broadcast?
You can broadcast almost anything you want, like YouTube videos, your facebook profile, your twitter account, your imo photostream, your small business, or your even own website -- just keep it clean, please.

facebook chat and color themes

You asked for it...

imo.im now supports facebook chat, so you can see most of your friends on one buddy list! Please note that we are offering the facebook connection as an experimental service. This product is not endorsed, certified or otherwise approved in any way by facebook.



Notice the pretty pink theme. Don't like pink? Feel free to choose from the 12 other colors available. Just click on the preferences link at the top of your imo page, and you'll be able to change the color theme at your whimsy.

Email your photos to your photostream!

You can now upload photos to your photostream by emailing them to photos@imo.im with a few simple steps:

Set up a photostream using one of your account logins.
I used my gmail account when I originally set up imo photos.



Start taking photos!
I took a photo of my dog with my iphone and wanted to share it with my friends through my imo photostream.



Select a photo and email it to photos@imo.im.
Make sure that you are sending it from the same email as the one you used to set up your imo photostream.



That’s it--you can now view and share your new photo through your imo photostream!



…and to put additional icing on the cake, we now give our users 2GB of free storage!

New Features on imo.im

If you’ve logged on recently, you may have noticed a few new features on imo. We are very excited to release imo photos, a photo sharing system that is embedded into imo’s instant messenger. This free web-based photo sharing application is designed to make sharing photos with your buddies as simple as possible.

By allowing users to integrate their online photos with their instant messaging networks, imo photos makes it easy for users to get their photos to the right people and keep track of their buddies' photos. Personal links to automatically updated photostreams makes sharing with a wider community easy as well.

The service features 1GB of free storage, with no required registration or download. In addition, we allow you to share full size photos with friends and family. Users can immediately log in and use imo photos with any instant messaging account they currently have, as long as the protocol is supported by imo.im. This includes all AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber, Yahoo Messenger, MySpace, and Skype accounts.

One of our interns, Erdal, recently launched cliq, our group sms feature, to our U.S. users. It’s easy to use and very useful—especially for organizing events and keeping in touch with your close group of friends. You can read more about cliq here. We hope to release cliq to more countries soon.

Additionally, we now support file transfer though imo thanks to another intern, Eric. Users can send files as large as 50 MB, which are available to download immediately or up to 24 hours later. You can send files to anyone, even people not using imo. Stay tuned, as we have several other applications rolling out in the next few months!