Xumii’s iPhone App Combines IM and Social Utility

via Mashable! by Jennifer Van Grove on 2/26/09

iPhone owners have plenty of choices when it comes to merging their IM accounts. They also have over 70 options for free mobile social media apps. What we've yet to see done right, however, is an app that merges the convenience of IM with the social utility we need.
Xumii, a mobile social address book available for a smattering of phones, has just released their free iPhone app that almost perfectly bridges the gap between social media sharing and chat functionality for all your contacts.

With Xumii you can import your phone's entire address book, effortlessly connect your Google, Facebook, MySpace, AOL, Yahoo, Flickr, MSN, and Imeem accounts, and get a comprehensive and feature-rich social address book on your phone.

Once you've connected your social accounts, you can view available friends, see everyone's status across all networks, ping contacts and chat within the app, share photos from your library or any of the connected networks, and update your status across all networks or each individually. In the future, Xumii plans to update the iPhone offering with a feature that other mobile phones already have — a mobile wall where you can post messages, and add media and widgets, essentially giving users a social mobile home page.
We're really liking the way Xumii combines our online social presence with mobile utility, and we'd also eventually like to see a smart integration with Twitter to give us an even more complete view of our mobile social circle.
For a quick overview of the app, watch this video from Xumii:

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