 Screenshot from the PowWow personal communicator chat program PowWow was one of the first Internet instant message and chat programs for Windows. It was made by a company called Tribal Voice. It is a quintessential internet startup meltdown story. Image File history File links Powwow-chat-program-screens. ...
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An instant messenger is a computer application which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network such as the Internet. ...
A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers An instant messenger is a client which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network such as the Internet. ...
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...
Many of the features found in contemporary instant messaging programs were first introduced in PowWow. The program also had several innovative features such as allowing users to talk with each other using VoIP, a shared whiteboard, a built-in speech synthesizer, WAV sound file playing, offline transmittal of instant messages via POP/SMTP and the ability for users to 'cruise' to the same web page. IP Telephony, also called Internet telephony, is the technology that makes it possible to have a telephone conversation over the Internet or a dedicated Internet Protocol (IP) network instead of dedicated voice transmission lines. ...
WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ...
In computing, local e-mail clients use the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), an application-layer Internet standard protocol, to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. ...
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for email transmission across the Internet. ...
The company was founded at the end of 1994 by the software millionaire John McAfee, founder of McAfee Associates (now called McAfee). On its website, the company described itself initially as a 'Native American' company run by Native Americans. As the company grew, the Native American references gradually disappeared. John McAfee (born September, 1945) is a software engineer and founder of McAfee. ...
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In 1998 McAfee brought in Joseph Esposito, formerly the president and CEO of Encyclopædia Britannica, to run the company. The company started in Woodland Park, Colorado and later located its corporate headquarters in Scotts Valley, California, both in the USA. The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ...
Woodland Park is a city located in Teller County, Colorado. ...
Scotts Valley is an elite suburb community of Santa Cruz located in central, Santa Cruz County, California. ...
In the late 1990s Tribal Voice began to OEM the PowWow software in order to increase market share. While most of these deals were insubstantial, several were with high-profile companies, including AT&T's WorldNet internet service provider (ISP), search engine/portal AltaVista and FreeServe, a United Kingdom-based ISP. Original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, is a term that refers to a situation in which one company purchases a manufactured product from another company and resells the product as its own, usually as a part of a larger product the original company is selling. ...
AT&T (NYSE: T) is the largest provider of both local and long distance telephone services, wireless service under the brand Cingular Wireless, and DSL Internet access in the United States. ...
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PowWow was one of the first instant messaging programs to provide interoperability between multiple instant messaging clients and was compatible with both AOL's AIM and Microsoft's MSN Messenger. Screenshot of AOL.com AOL LLC (formerly America Online, Inc. ...
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In the late 1990s AOL sued Tribal Voice for use of the phrase 'buddy list' and made repeated efforts to block interoperability between their instant messaging client and Tribal Voice's, as well as those of other companies.
In 1999 the company was then acquired by dot-com incubator CMGI, who moved the company's development center from Woodland Park to Colorado Springs, Colorado and closed the Scotts Valley, California office. In 2000, CMGI merged the company into CMGIon, a division of CMGI, founded with help from Sun Microsystems and Novell. In January of 2001, CMGIon closed its Colorado Springs office, the former Tribal Voice. CMGI inc. ...
Colorado Springs is a middle-sized city, located just east of the geographic center of the state of Colorado in the United States. ...
Scotts Valley is a city located in Santa Cruz County, California. ...
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Principals (company officers prior to acquisition ) - John McAfee, CEO, Board
- Joseph Esposito, CEO
- Nigel Thompson, CTO [later Chief Architect, CMGion]
- Richard Dym, VP Marketing
- Lee Finck, VP Sales
- Kathy Johnson, Director of Product Marketing
- Beth Nagengast, Director Corporate Marketing
(post-acquisition) John McAfee (born September, 1945) is a software engineer and founder of McAfee. ...
- Ross Bagully, CEO [later senior VP, instant messenging, CMGI]
- Gail Bakewell, VP Operations
(technical management and leads) by last name, in alphabetical order - Jared Bergeron, Director, IT
- Dave Debenham, Sr. Lead, Server
- Bullitt Fitzhugh, Director, IT
- G.E. 'Rok' Gayles, System Administrator
- Michael Gilardino, Director, Quality Assurance
- Aryeh Goretsky, Director, Support
- Zach Hornbaker, Webmaster
- Ingrid Janse (nee Bomgardner), Program Manager
- Michael Mansfield, Director, User Relations
- Paul Peterson, Sr. Lead, Client
- Chad Routh, Sr. System Administrator
- Jim Zoromski, Sr. Lead, Database
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