Gooey
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Gooey was an Internet chat application popular in 1999. The system allowed people who were simultaneously browsing the same web site to communicate with each other, in effect creating chat room
s external to the web site.
Gooey was acquired by SIGA and closed in 2000 which was valued at $150M.
Hypernix is the developer of Gooey, an integrated roving communication platform that has attracted nearly one million Internet users since its launch in June 1999. Hypernix's equity investors include CNET, Allen & Co., and JAFCO Co., Japan's largest venture capital firm. Under the terms of the letter of intent, upon consummation of the acquisition
Gooey, Hypernix's flagship product, gives users the power to communicate with others visiting the same sites (via chat and instant messaging) and to receive rich-media broadband content (including streaming video and flash animation) with one dynamic product. By integrating Gooey with the surfing experience, Hypernix introduced the first co-browsing product that instantly connects like-minded people visiting the same Web-site.
Based on the overwhelming international acceptance of Gooey, Hypernix is charting the evolution of the product toward an ASP business model. By approaching ISP's, portals and community websites worldwide, Hypernix intends to license special co-branded versions of Gooey and other fully customized packages of its technology. Built to fit the respective needs and requirements of a given client, integrated packages would include enriched features such as: a Java version of Gooey that does not require the download of a client, customer support, and note-posting technology.
About Hypernix
Hypernix (www.hypernix.com) is a privately held company founded in January 1999, with offices in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Globally recognized as a first mover, Hypernix develops and distributes products that expand the ways Internet users interact with each other while online. Since the launch of Gooey, in June 1999, Hypernix has accumulated nearly 5 million registered users.
It was initially coded by Eran Kariti, The program was written in VC++ ,a language based on the popular programming language C++
. Curiously, the application was considered by the press to be an evolution of ICQ
.
Eran Kariti is recognized in Israel’s high-tech industry as one of the top specialists in Internet technologies.
Chat room
The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing...
s external to the web site.
Gooey was acquired by SIGA and closed in 2000 which was valued at $150M.
Hypernix is the developer of Gooey, an integrated roving communication platform that has attracted nearly one million Internet users since its launch in June 1999. Hypernix's equity investors include CNET, Allen & Co., and JAFCO Co., Japan's largest venture capital firm. Under the terms of the letter of intent, upon consummation of the acquisition
Gooey, Hypernix's flagship product, gives users the power to communicate with others visiting the same sites (via chat and instant messaging) and to receive rich-media broadband content (including streaming video and flash animation) with one dynamic product. By integrating Gooey with the surfing experience, Hypernix introduced the first co-browsing product that instantly connects like-minded people visiting the same Web-site.
Based on the overwhelming international acceptance of Gooey, Hypernix is charting the evolution of the product toward an ASP business model. By approaching ISP's, portals and community websites worldwide, Hypernix intends to license special co-branded versions of Gooey and other fully customized packages of its technology. Built to fit the respective needs and requirements of a given client, integrated packages would include enriched features such as: a Java version of Gooey that does not require the download of a client, customer support, and note-posting technology.
About Hypernix
Hypernix (www.hypernix.com) is a privately held company founded in January 1999, with offices in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Globally recognized as a first mover, Hypernix develops and distributes products that expand the ways Internet users interact with each other while online. Since the launch of Gooey, in June 1999, Hypernix has accumulated nearly 5 million registered users.
It was initially coded by Eran Kariti, The program was written in VC++ ,a language based on the popular programming language C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
. Curiously, the application was considered by the press to be an evolution of ICQ
ICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail.ru Group. The name ICQ is a homophone for the phrase "I seek you"...
.
Eran Kariti is recognized in Israel’s high-tech industry as one of the top specialists in Internet technologies.