Microsoft legendary Chief software designer Ray Ozzie launches IM application Talko

We believe that amazing things happen as we talk with each other-thoughts are shared, ideas formed and problems solved. That ' s why we built Talko. It's a app that helps arranges talk, share and do things using the most human form of communication we have-our.

This first article of the Talko team blog explains the Why of Talko's existence.

Talko, founded by the 58-Year-old Microsoft legendary chief software architect Ray Ozzie, today unveiled its iphone apps (click here to download), and Android and Web apps are still under development.

Smartphones have become the preferred communication device for people, in the Talko team's view, although text-based communication is rapid and straightforward, but compared to the voice of the "human most natural way of communication", it can not express the subtle feelings, so it is not conducive to efficient communication, or with others to complete the work efficiently. And Talko to do is this: bring voice back to life. Now look, Talko seems to have done it!

Simply say the product. Through the mail or phone registration completed, successful invite friends to join, you can communicate with friends on the phone, or voice + text + photo communication. There are two places where the design is quite worth mentioning.

The first is, after clicking the eye-catching Microphone button, users can be like talking on the phone you say I go on all the time--should be through the decibel detection, open the two sides of the wheat, the whole dialogue without pressing any button, do not need to be like in micro-letter with "point + put" operation to exchange voice. And you come to me the sense of dialogue, then by the bottom of the screen color different sound ripple to hint and guide. The dialogue process may invite others to join at any time.

The second is the camera action, that is, the clap is sent, no confirmation action, feel very smooth, fast, this is consistent with the Taptalk.

There is also a cool point in Talko, where each call is shared (the content of the conversation is stored in the cloud and can quickly generate links). In addition, in line with Talko's vision, the product also added the get things-done design, where each conversation could be viewed as a task, supporting the inclusion of a topic description, tag, or important, completed, etc. used in the task description.

In addition to communication and entertainment, smartphones are increasingly being used for work-related matters, and IM is a big "disaster area", for example, even the first pure fun micro-letters are now launched enterprise. and the main voice of efficient communication Talko whether in the product concept, or in the specific product design, there are many worthy of thinking and learn from the place-this is Ray Ozzie left Microsoft nearly 5 years after the work done, said on the grinding a sword.

A hasty trial, there must be some talko subtle or unreasonable place I have not experienced, interested friends may wish to use it, welcome comments or manuscripts to talk about your views on the Talko jason[at]36kr.com.