Gadu-Gadu

Last updated

Gadu-Gadu
Developer(s) Fintecom Sp. z o.o.
Initial releaseAugust 15, 2000;23 years ago (2000-08-15)
Stable release
12.4.109.12193
Operating system Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Symbian, Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS
Size 5
Available inPolish and English
Type Instant messaging client
License adware
Website www.gg.pl

Gadu-Gadu (Polish for "chit-chat"; commonly known as GG or gg) is a Polish instant messaging client using a proprietary protocol. At one time, Gadu-Gadu was the most popular IM service in Poland, with over 15 million registered accounts and approximately 6.5 million users online daily.[ citation needed ] Gadu-Gadu's casual gaming portal had some 500,000 active users as at the end of March 2009. [1] Users send up to 300 million messages per day. [2]

Contents

Gadu-Gadu is financed by the display of advertisements. The developer is based in Koszalin, Poland and the company is wholly owned by another Polish company, Fintecom.

Features

Gadu-Gadu uses its own proprietary protocol. As with ICQ, users are identified by unique serial numbers. Protocol's features include status messages, file sharing, and VoIP. Users may format and embed images in messages. Starting from client version 6.0, an experimental feature utilizing a secure SSL connection was introduced, although it remained inactive until the beta release of version 10.0. [3]

The official client provides over 150 emoticons, allows grouping contacts, sending SMS and integrates with other services run by the same company: a virtual Internet dial-up, a social networking site MojaGeneracja.pl (defunct since 5 November 2012) and an internet radio Open.fm.[ citation needed ]

On February 9, 2009, a significant new major version of the application, named Nowe Gadu-Gadu (which translates to "New Gadu-Gadu" in Polish), was released. The graphical user interface underwent a complete overhaul, being rebuilt from scratch using the Qt framework. This update brought along a range of notable enhancements, including the introduction of voice calling capabilities, a spell checker, an anti-spam filter, the ability to display YouTube videos directly within the chat window as embeds, customizable skins, the addition of tabs, and several other additions aimed at improving the user experience and security. [4]

Gadu-Gadu allows its users to add personal information to a publicly searchable directory. Language options include English and Polish. There is also a browser version available.

Blip.pl

Blip.pl (or just Blip) was a Polish social networking internet service, founded in May 2007 and currently owned by Gadu-Gadu. It had microblogging capability. Soon after being established, it was purchased by Gadu-Gadu S.A in June 2007.

About 329,000 people visited the site in June 2009. [5] In October 2009 the number of posts on the network exceeded ten million. [6] By 4 December 2010 the service had 80,000 users. [7] Notable Polish celebrities and politicians, such as Lech Wałęsa and Grzegorz Napieralski, used the site. [8] The service was used as a communication channel of various governmental services, for example ZUS. [9]

Blip was closed on 2 September 2013, following a two-month advance notice. During this period, users could choose to migrate their accounts to Wykop, which hosts a similar microblogging service. [10]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">IRC</span> Protocol for real-time Internet chat and messaging

IRC is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.

ICQ New was a cross-platform instant messaging (IM) and VoIP client. The name ICQ derives from the English phrase "I Seek You". Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group in 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Instant messaging</span> Form of computer communication over the internet or locally

Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of synchronous computer-mediated communication involving the immediate (real-time) transmission of messages between two or more parties over the Internet or another computer network. Originally involving simple text message exchanges, modern IM applications and services tend to also feature the exchange of multimedia, emojis, file transfer, VoIP, and video chat capabilities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pidgin (software)</span> Open-source multi-platform instant messaging client

Pidgin is a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for many instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to simultaneously log in to various services from a single application, with a single interface for both popular and obsolete protocols, thus avoiding the hassle of having to deal with new software for each device and protocol.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">XMPP</span> Communications protocol for message-oriented middleware

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol is an open communication protocol designed for instant messaging (IM), presence information, and contact list maintenance. Based on XML, it enables the near-real-time exchange of structured data between two or more network entities. Designed to be extensible, the protocol offers a multitude of applications beyond traditional IM in the broader realm of message-oriented middleware, including signalling for VoIP, video, file transfer, gaming and other uses.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yahoo! Messenger</span> Instant messaging protocol

Yahoo! Messenger was an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger was provided free of charge and could be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo ID" which also allowed access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail. The service also offered VoIP, file transfers, webcam hosting, a text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories.

OSCAR is AOL's proprietary instant messaging and presence information protocol. It was used by AOL's AIM instant messaging system and ICQ.

iChat Messaging application for Mac OS X

iChat is a discontinued instant messaging software application developed by Apple Inc. for use on its Mac OS X operating system. It supported instant text messaging over XMPP/Jingle or OSCAR (AIM) protocol, audio and video calling, and screen-sharing capabilities. It also allowed for local network discussion with users discovered through Bonjour protocols.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Miranda NG</span> Free instant messenger for Microsoft Windows

Miranda NG is an open-source multiprotocol instant messaging application, designed for Microsoft Windows. Miranda NG is free software distributed under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adium</span> Instant messaging client

Adium is a free and open-source instant messaging client for macOS that supports multiple IM networks, including XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more. In the past, it has also supported AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. Adium is written using macOS's Cocoa API, and it is released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later and many other licenses for components that are distributed with Adium.

Tencent QQ, also known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service and web portal developed by the Chinese technology company Tencent. QQ offers services that provide online social games, music, shopping, microblogging, movies, and group and voice chat software. As of March 2023, there were 597 million monthly active QQ accounts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Psi (instant messaging client)</span> Instant messaging client

Psi is a free instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol which uses the Qt toolkit. It runs on Linux, Windows, macOS and OS/2.

Tlen.pl was an adware licensed Polish instant messaging service. It was fully compatible with the main Polish Gadu-Gadu instant messenger. It was launched in 2001 and discontinued in May 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">BitlBee</span> Open-source cross-platform IRC gateway

BitlBee is a cross-platform IRC instant messaging gateway, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Xfire</span> Instant messaging service and game server browser

Xfire was a proprietary freeware instant messaging service for gamers that also served as a game server browser with various other features. It was available for Microsoft Windows. Xfire was originally developed by Ultimate Arena based in Menlo Park, California.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Empathy (software)</span> Open source instant messaging and VoIP client

Empathy was an instant messaging (IM) and voice over IP (VoIP) client which supported text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over various IM communication protocols.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Google Wave</span> Software framework for real-time collaborative editing online

Google Wave, later known as Apache Wave, was a software framework for real-time collaborative online editing. Originally developed by Google and announced on May 28, 2009, it was renamed to Apache Wave when the project was adopted by the Apache Software Foundation as an incubator project in 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eyeball Chat</span>

Eyeball Chat is a proprietary freeware VoIP, video telephony soft phone with multiple-protocol instant messaging for Windows PCs, developed by Chris Piche and Eyeball Networks in Vancouver, and first released in 2000. The software is free for personal use.

wykop.pl is a Polish social networking internet service, founded on December 28, 2005. It is modeled after the American website digg.com. The basic idea behind wykop.pl is the collection of potentially interesting internet-based information and making them available to users.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Instantbird</span> Cross-platform instant messaging client

Instantbird is a discontinued cross-platform instant messaging client based on Mozilla's XULRunner and the open-source library libpurple used in Pidgin. Instantbird is free software available under the GNU General Public License. Over 250 add-ons allow user customization of, and addition of, features. On October 18, 2017, Florian Quèze announced that "... we are stopping development of Instantbird as a standalone product."

References

  1. ↑ "Brands | Gadu Gadu". Naspers.com. Archived from the original on 20 March 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
  2. ↑ "Historia Gadu-Gadu | Gadu-Gadu - Multimedialna Platforma Komunikacyjna" (in Polish). Info.gadu-gadu.pl. Archived from the original on 18 August 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
  3. ↑ Ponikowski, Mateusz (29 March 2010). "Szyfrowanie w Gadu-Gadu 10". www.instalki.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  4. ↑ "Rewolucja w komunikatorze Gadu-Gadu!". CHIP - Technologie mamy we krwi! (in Polish). 9 February 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  5. ↑ Szarek, Dominik (5 October 2009). "Prawie 1,2 mln internautów korzysta z mikroblogów". interaktywnie.com (in Polish).
  6. ↑ Kozak, Agata (20 October 2009). "10 milionów wiadomości wysłanych na Blipie! Dzięki!". Bliplog.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 15 March 2012.
  7. ↑ Blipi.pl - statystyki.
  8. ↑ Kotowski, Daniel (17 July 2009). "Sławy na Blipie drogą do sukcesu?". W: Dziennik Internautów (in Polish).
  9. ↑ Koryszewski, Mariusz (20 October 2009). "Blip: ZUS zaczął blipować". gazeta.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 23 March 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  10. ↑ "Wczoraj część z Was zauważyła dość zastanawiającą..." Wykop.pl (in Polish). July 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.