pulver.Communicator Beta Test

By special permission, Jeff Pulver has agreed to allow me to blog about my experiences as a beta tester of his companies new software product, pulver.Communicator which he describes in his email in the following way --

We've been working to develop this application that combines the elements of Instant Messaging, Presence, Voice and Social Networking (depending on your input, other things will be added in the future). Through Communicator, FWD subscribers can enjoy Instant Messaging not only with their FWD contacts, but with their friends on the four most popular IM networks as well (AOL, Yahoo!, ICQ, and MSN). They can also hurl call-me links to non-FWD buddies that will allow them to establish a VoIP call-back immediately via FWDTalk. The person receiving the call-me link need not be a Free World Dialup subscriber they just need to be running XP on a PC that has a microphone and speakers (or they need to have a headset plugged into the appropriate jacks).

I will be installing later this morning and will have frequent posts over the next few weeks to allow you to all share in the beta experience...