Unified Communication Center - Imo.im

I do not belong to the company that created the service, I do not work there and do not promote them. I just found a convenient service for me and decided to share my impressions with you.

ICQ

I have long since abandoned ICQ, for a couple of years now. Almost all friends can be contacted via Skype, or by mail. But recently it was necessary to communicate with a person who lives only in ICQ. I didn’t want to set up a “fat” client, and I began to look for a more or less convenient web client.

Customers

First of all, of course, got into "Web-ICQ - the new ICQ2go!". What can I say - this is a classic of clients from ICQ (now mail.ru). This is a bunch of ads, lags in the interface, an attempt to show the web service as a desktop application. Some may like it, but I started looking further.

I dug up almost all the links of Google issue. Some services did not support Russian, through some I basically could not log into the account. MegaFon UMS is generally just something ...
I ended up finding IMO.IM.
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Imo.im main window with loaded dialog

Imo.im

In short - a pleasant, developing service for convenient communication. Allows you to connect to a single account a bunch of services:

imo (own service account)
MSN
Skype
Yahoo
Google talk
Facebook
Aim
ICQ
Jabber
VKontakte
Steam

Add / Manage Accounts window

Service advantages

There is no advertising (it should be, but I did not notice it. Even with adblock turned off). Something ran through the left panel, but I closed it and did not find how to open it again :)
Very smart interface. There are no lags at all.
The interface is actually convenient. The window is not trying to get out of the browser.
Integration in one contact list from several social networks / services.
There are groups, block sheets
Full Russian support in communication
Almost complete interface Russification (78% at the time of writing)
There are sound alerts / pop-up alerts
There is an iOS client.

Also, thanks @AMarkin

the ability to quickly share content (voice notes, photos, locations, videos) with those users who have a client
the ability to make calls

IOS Client

Minuses

No metacontacts. If 1 person is in 4 networks - you will have 4 contacts in the list.
Minor flaws (in the iOS client, instead of avatars from social networks, your avatar is pulled up), some of the strings are not Russified.
Something else is sure to come out, but for now, everything suits me.

Funny contact list in the client

Customers

Thin client - imo.im. Quick registration (does not ask for “repeat password entry”, allows you to work with the service BEFORE activation by mail). I started all my accounts right away and I speak freely. Conveniently.

The client for iOS is quite convenient. There are no elegant design solutions. He is boring in terms of design. But it does its job 100% - you can quickly find a contact and write messages to it. I do not need more.

Conclusion

You can use the service. Many available services, nice interfaces, Russian support and a good mobile client appeal to this service. The lack of advertising adds benefits to the service.