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Barman’s GoGroups aims to replace IM

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, April 14, 2008

Touradj Barman SOM ’07 plans to kill the instant messenger. Or replace it, at least.

With these hopes, Barman is releasing GoGroups, a downloadable program that allows users to join, chat and share in public and private online groups. His program, which he began developing while a student at the School of Management, does all this with the help of his patented “live html.”

Barman is making GoGroups available to the Yale community today in the first step toward a wider distribution.

In GoGroups, each group of users has a set of “cards,” chat conversations encoded in...

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