Gathera

Concept

Gathera is a proprietary multiprotocol instant messaging application and social network aggregator developed by Esaya, Inc. Gathera is written in C Sharp (programming language) and uses Windows Presentation Foundation for rendering. Gathera lets you bring all your online accounts that you frequently check together into one place – the IE browser sidebar.

This concept is called social network aggregation. Social network aggregation services attempt to organize or simplify a user's social networking experience [cite journal|title=Upstart websites aim to consolidate social networking |accessdate=2008-04-10 |author=Beth Snyder Bulik |date=2007-06-18 |publisher=Advertising Age |quote= The latest trend in the space is aggregation-websites... [which] all present variations on the theme of organizing or simplifying a consumer's social-networking experience. ] , although the idea has been satirized by the concept of a "social network aggregator aggregator." [cite web|url=http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/03/social-network-aggregator-aggregator-launched.html |title=Social Network Aggregator Aggregator AllMyFrickingFriends.com Launched |accessdate=2008-04-10 |author=Brian Briggs |date=2008-03-17 |publisher=BBSpot] . Other programs which aggregate social networks include Flock (web browser) and Digsby.

Features

Gathera integrates mulitple Internet, social network services and media services including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Digg, Flickr, LinkedIn, hi5 (website), etc.

upported protocols

*.NET Messenger Service (Windows Live Messenger, commonly known as "MSN")
*OSCAR (AIM)
*XMPP (Google Talk)
*Yahoo!
*Twitter
*Facebook Chat

ee also

* social network aggregation
* social network service
* Social network
* Social media
* List of social networking websites
* Web 2.0

References

External links

* [http://www.gathera.com/ Official site]
* [http://gathera.com/blog Gathera Blog]