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Blabbelon launches free voice chat for online gamers

Source: VentureBeat

Nov 03, 2009

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If anyone can appreciate the quality of voice calls over the web done right, it’s gamers. That’s the bet that Blabbelon is making as it launches a free voice chat system for game fanatics. The service is based on Skype’s Silk voice-chat codec, which tries to connect people over the Internet with crystal clear voice quality.

The company is the brainchild of Ed Ikeguchi, who funded the company himself. He got into gaming after he left his last company, Medidata Solutions, a clinical trial company that went public in June. Ikeguchi was trained as a doctor but went into enterprise products for pharmaceutical companies. He started Medidata in 1999 and grew that business to 800 employees. It went public in June. Ikeguchi played a lot of World of Warcraft in a group of players known as a guild. He found it fascinating that players who never met in real life could congregate online together as if they were the best of friends.