// My New Venture: Hallo//

A few months ago, I was having coffee with my buddy, Abdul Khan, and we began discussing mobile communication. Namely, we began discussing our own communication patterns and our desire to maintain better communication with more people and more people, while also having less time.  

That led to a conversation about how text messaging (being quick and asynchronous) has enabled that, but yet also removed many of the personal and rich aspects of communication that voice allows. We then started going a bit further, discussing social graphs, group communication patterns and open and social sharing.

Out of those initial few conversations, a new company was born — Hallo (http://hallo.me/).

We, along with Christine Dummer and Adrian Rodriguez, recently launched Hallo — a mobile application that lets you send quick voice messages to individuals, groups or the world — as a solution the problem we were discussing. It quickly allows you to communicate with friends, family and the world (like text messaging), but preserves the personal nature of voice. 

We created Hallo because we believe that with less time, communication should be simple, easy and quick. Yet, it’s just as important that it continue to be personal. Voice allows you to connect with people and express feeling, emotion and subtlety and nuance in ways text cannot. 

We also believe everyone has something to say and has a voice — thus the ability to post public voice messages on both the application and to Twitter and Facebook.

We’re just getting started with Hallo and what you see now is only the beginning. Check it out and let me know what you think (adam@teamhallo.com).

Hallo for iOS: http://itunes.com/apps/hallosocialvoice 

Hallo for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hallo.android