Social & Communication Software

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A transactional email platform from the email service provider MailChimp. Mandrill can be used to send transactional emails from web applications and third-party service. An API is provided by Mandrill that makes it east to integrate your application to the Mandrill platform.

A set of powerful APIs that enables your application to send, receive and track transactional emails effortlessly. Mailgun provides a global infrastructure and industry expertise that helps you get your message across to the right person at the right time. The service is trusted by over 150,000 businesses including giants like Microsoft, MIT, NHL and Lyft.

Sendcheetah is an email marketing software that provides a complete email marketing infrastructure. The platform provides marketers with analytics, integrations and an email template builder. Sendcheetah is affordable for all types of business based on their requirement.

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A mobile group messaging app developed and owned by Microsoft. GroupMe was first launched in 2010, today the application has over 12 million registered users that engage in group communication. The application makes it easy to stay in touch with those who really matter to you, and to do so in groups.

Slack is a new way to communicate with your team in a faster, better organized, and more secure than email. The software is designed for business looking to improve their communication work flow. Slack offers features like persistent chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging that is built for teamwork.

Kik is a free instant messaging and social networking app that allows you to stay connected with friends and stay in the loop. Over 4 million people use Kik on their smartphones to send messages and connect with the world around them. The design of the Kik application is easy on the eyes, and even easier to use. Share emojis and images directly in the chat and create and interact with chatbots to perform task like enhancing images, get news or play simple games.

With GoToMeeting you can meet and collaborate effortlessly with co-workers and friends. GoToMeeting empowers your remote workforce, while keeping your business safe and secured. Allowing work to be done anywhere, at any time, on any device, your organization needs a virtual meeting platform built for better business.

Zoho Mail provides ad-free email hosting for business and organizations. It's comes with intuitive migration tools, along with 24/7 dedicated migration support to ensure smooth, lossless migration from your existing email provider. With Zoho Mail, your organization can manage all their email, calendar and contact needs. Since Zoho Mail is part of the Zoho's suite of online productivity, it's easy to extend the capability in to more parts of Zoho's offering and essentially run your entire business with Zoho. Zoho is provided as a Freemium software, where the free plan supports up to 5 users in an organization.

Diaspora is a privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network developed by the Diaspora Foundation. The social network is built up of distributed pods, that can be self-hosted by anyone. However, to join the Dispora, you can simply chose an already hosted pod on the network. Members can share and discuss content with others, and label content with hashtags, allowing them to easily follow certain topics that they are interested in. Diaspora also supports @mentions and re-shares of posts, features which all adds up to an intricate communication and sharing system, distributed across the globe.

ICQ is the oldest cross-platform messenger and VoIP client. It was originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, later sold to AOL in 1998. With ICQ you can stay connected with friends, family and co-workers. ICQ provides instant messaging andcan conver audio messages to text.

Jitsi is an open-source project and software toolset that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.  Jitsi supports popular protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ICQ/AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Google Hangouts, OTR, ZRTP and more.

Ripcord is a desktop chat client for group-centric services like Slack and Discord. It provides a traditional compact desktop interface designed for power users. It has a small resource footprint, responds quickly to input, and gets out of your way. With Ripcord, you can connect with friends, family and co-workers.

Dialog Messenger is a corporate messenger for teamwork and secure communication.

Jami is a free, open-source. universal distributed communication platform which preserves the user's privacy and freedoms. Jami supports a variety of video input options, including mutliple cameras and image and video files, and the selection of audio inputs and outputs with high quality audio and video codecs.

Lavalife is an online dating application available for your mobile device and the browser. Lavalife puts the excitement back into dating by matching your interests with others to help you break the ice and find someone that matches your life. Since 2001, Lavalife has been committed to helping its members find dates and soul mates that last for an eternity.