Ray Ozzie is back, baby. His new startup, Talko aims to get us talking on the phone again — but not on phone calls.

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Christopher Mims keeps happy-talking:

Perhaps nothing is more important than the means by which team members communicate with one another. [It’s] not merely enabled but in some sense determined by the technology that carries them [and] are an important competitive advantage.
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Talko [is] a unique, though not wholly original, combination of text messaging, phone calls, voice mails, and video and picture messaging [with] an unusual pedigree: One of its founders is Ray Ozzie, who old IT hands will remember as the inventor of Lotus Notes.
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Imagine a messaging app that also allows you to leave voice memos for others, and…lets them immediately jump on a call with you, as well as everyone else who is part of the group. [It] archives everything, and it allows you to add hashtags to conversations (even tagging specific points in time).  MORE

And Ryan Lawler talks about things he’d like to do:

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