Hictu! Blog

In the next weeks Hictu! will provide its users with an ad-hoc Symbian client to publish and retrieve presence information from their mobile phones.

But right now you can experience using Hictu! with your mobile phone Internet browser. The view can be optimized (and it will!) but a lot of users are giving a positive feedback: try it and let us know.

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The Hictu! Team

Technorati Tags: Hictu, IM, Presence, Mobile Presence

Hictu! has been used and commented by Giacomo Dotta, an authoritative voice of Internet (italian):

Hictu è un servizio che permette di conservare e gestire la propria rubrica conservando trasversalmente tutti i vari account di cui ogni amico/collaboratore/amante dispone. Insomma: Tizio è un mio amico ed io ho il suo nome su Skype, su ICQ e tra i contatti di posta elettronica. Bene, alla voce “Tizio” Hictu mi proporrà tutti i vari account completando inoltre l’elenco con tutti gli altri riferimenti che Tizio avrà immesso in Hictu: Yahoo Messenger, Jabber, Sitofono, eccetera (su Sitofono approfondirò un’altra volta: ricordatevi questo nome). Ecco cosa trovo all’interno del mio account personale dopo aver inserito il primo nome nella lista ed aver ricevuto autorizzazione ad accedere ai suoi riferimenti vari.

Let’s see how the Italian Internet community reacts.

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The Hictu! Team

Another comment on Hictu!:

While browsing net for today’s VoIP stories, I found out a very interesting thing from Tom Keating’s blog about Hictu!, an online address book which is supposed to address the common problem that we face while organizing VoIP contacts.

We are very obsessive to keep different accounts to keep touch with our friends. We have a good reason to do so. However, searching online friends through different clients is really boring as well as painful. Thanks I am an exceptional case to it. However, if you have bunch of email contacts, do not worry, Abbeynet has come up with Hictu to make you cool.

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The Hictu! Team

A comment on Hictu! posted in messenger.es (spanish):

Hictu! es una libreta de direcciones online que te presenta el estado de tus contactos en los servicios de mensajería instantánea y VozIP más utilizados.

Hictu! ofrece el estado de presencia para clientes messenger como MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Jabber (también debería soportar Google Talk), AIM, ICQ, Abbeyphone y Sitofono.

Además en la próximas semanas esperan añadir nuevas funciones como estado con Google Talk, estado en SightSpeed, estado en Gizmo Project, soporte de presencia Móvil (para móviles con soporte Symbian y Java), soporte para “Click to Call”, soporte para cuentas premium (sms, vozip, …), SuperEstado, buzón de voz gratis, …

Ahora puedes probarlo facilmente, solo tienes que registrarte con un correo válido.

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The Hictu! Team

Let’s start with the description of some features:

1. email address book import
Users can import their contacts on Hictu! accessing the section “Add Contacts”. All you need to do is to load the CSV file that you have previously created from Outlook Express, MS Outlook and Thunderbird.
(Soon a system to import contacts from Mac will be available )

2. IM/VoIP accounts
As you can see, the section “Settings” contains your personal profile but you can also insert the IDs for Sitofono, Abbeyphone, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, ICQ, AIM and Skype (others will be added soon).
Hictu! retrieves your current status for every service and provides it to all the users that inserted you as a contact in their contact list.

3. Visibility management
Hictu! uses a one-to-one authorization mechanism. If you want to add a contact in your contact list, you have to invite her, asking for an authorization. Once you have request the authorization, the invited contact can see the pending request in the “Privacy” session, if she already have a Hictu! account.
If the invited doesn’t have a Hictu! account, she will receive an invite email with a link to access the “Join” page.
The section “Pivacy” contains a list of all users which have added you as a contact. If you want to block one of them, you simply click on an icon and that user will not see your status, until you auhtorize her again.

4. “Hictu! as you like it”
Hictu! provides a simple form that users can use to send suggestions or comments to Hictu! support.

5. Forum
For any question or discussion, you can refer to Hictu! forum.

Enjoy!

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The Hictu! Team

A first comment by Tom Keating:

We all have problems with our multiple digital address books, multiple IM/VoIP clients, which affects productivity - both professionally and personally. Checking each client to see which buddies are online or to look for a specific buddy is a pain if you run multiple clients like most of us do.

I’ll have to try it out when I get a chance.

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The Hictu! Team

Read how Luca describes Hictu!:

What about having a “live” address book which provides information about your contacts’ availability ? What about a presence-based address book ? What about something which really improves your “responsiveness” ?

Hictu! is the solution. It’s the latest product coming from Abbeynet, where our engineers work hard to create innovative services in the field of VoIP, presence and web. It has been released as a beta preview, so more features are still missed and will be available in the next upcoming versions.

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The Hictu! Team

Hictu! is finally available at www.hictu.com, in its Beta version.

Hictu! is pronounced “eektoo” and derives from the latin “Hic Tu”, which means “You, Here”.

Hictu! is a Web application that allows you to handle your contacts in a more efficient way, and helps you finding the best way to communicate. Nothing to download: just login, wherever you are, and use it. For free!

Hictu! – Your Presence Dashboard

Once you have completed the easy, two-steps registration in Hictu! you can start being in touch with your friends, family, co-workers, business contacts, and so on.

If you need to go deeper in its features, or to discuss with other users about it, there is a forum.

As you will see, Hictu! has been designed to provide a very simple, intuitive interface, but Hictu! will grow up with you and with the contribute of all users.

This is why in the next months Hictu! will reach mobile phones, and its users will assist to a new and amazing convergence: it’s not fixed that converges to mobile, but it’s Mobile and Internet which becomes different interfaces of the same tool.

Hictu! is secure: users have a one-to-one authorization mechanism which guarantees security and privacy.

Now create your account, customize your profile, invite your contacts and start communicating!

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The Hictu! Team