SHAPE Services releases Persistent.im

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SHAPE Services, the developer of popular cross-platform mobile applications as IM+ All-in-One Messenger and IM+ for Skype, today released a beta version of Persistent.im, a web service which allows to set up persistent conferences for cross-IM communication.

Persistent.im users need to invite their peers to the conference only once and the conference will appear as a contact in their instant messenger contact list. When someone in a conference writes a message, it is delivered instantly to all online participants; offline participants receive it when they get online.

Each conference shows up and behaves as a contact in the IM contacts list. Conference participants may use accounts in AIM®/iChat, MSN®/Windows Live™ Messenger, Yahoo!®, ICQ®, Jabber®, Google Talk™ and MySpaceIM.

Persistent.im keeps the easy to read message archive during the group lifecycle as a better and more convenient alternative to instant messenger history. Any participant may review the full message history arranged by the conference subject.

The web interface allows the host of the conference to conduct a whole range of activities: invite other users from different IMs, manage the conference and view the status of the conference.

Persistent.im is a pure web service that doesn’t require any additional software. For the end users it is just a natural way to talk using their preferred IM software.

Currently in Beta, Persistent.im is free and available for anyone.