Nimbuzz, mig33 work to differentiate out of mobile VoIP pack

Nimbuzz and mig33 made announcements over the past seven days to posture themselves as A) Different from everyone else and B) Growing despite all the other "me too" cheap mobile VoIP offerings in the marketplace.

Joining the iPhone/iPod Touch crowd, Nimbuzz has release a free app available through the iPhone App store. The app lets users call, chat and IM through a laundry list of IM communities and social networks, including Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber. IM buddy calling over WiFi is available to Yahoo, Google Talk, Skype and Windows Live Messenger. And if that's not enough, there's also support for local social networks in Germany, The Netherlands and Poland.

Current numbers posted by Nimbuzz include over 10 million logins per day and it claims to be adding new users at a clip of more than 10,000 per day.

Meanwhile, mig33 says it has doubled its user base from 9 million back in January to 18 million today. Like everyone else, you can IM through it, make cheap long-distance calls, yadda-yadda. Most of the growth is occurring overseas, and the company is doubling-down by providing support for Bengali, simplified Chinese, English, Hindi, Indonesian and Russian.

So how many IM/mobile VoIP/cheap phone call plays can the world support? There's iSkoot, Raketu, Nimbuzz, mig33, Truphone, Skype and that's before we even start sweating hard. Plus, Yahoo and Microsoft and different variants within AIM and GoogleTalk.

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