Add a little zing to your life with MessengerFX
One thing advantage of the Internet is that it brings the people of the world closer and one such example is the application called MessengerFX. The startup site comes from Bursa, Turkey. MessengerFX was built by a 
Turkish entrepreneur/programmer Yusuf Yildirim, who seems to want to remain unexposed to web 2.0 fame. On the MessengerFX website, you can not find any disclosure about where the company is located, or who to contact, or anything else. And on some websites, MessengerFX’s extreme anonymity has stirred some speculation about the security of the web based messenger, after all people have to provide their MSN username and password.
The other information that I was able to find about the service is:
Public beta
Funding: bootstrap?
Company Based out of Bursa, Turkey
Started: 7 months ago.
Domain Registered: 2006-02-08
seems to have 5 servers so far.
Alexa traffic ranking: 93Kish
Main Competitor: Meebo.com (venture funded)
According to Google Trends, MessengerFX gets most of its users from Chile, Turkey, UK, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Spain, Australia. Alexa shows a strong 90 degree growth in traffic in the past 6 months. (the website launched about 6 months ago).
Also, it’s interesting to compare MessengerFX to Meebo. Meebo’s stronghold seems to be India, Brazil, Phillipines and Romania according to Google Trends and Meebo ranks #2000 on Alexa. Meebo also scores on other aspects as Meebo supports Yahoo, Google, AIM and ICQ platforms as well and it supports more than 50 languages.
I think MessengerFX shows how a bootstrapped startup can carve its niche in the marketplace, and stand up against a venture-funded rival… I’d be curious to see where most of Meebo’s audience and MessengerFX’s audience will come from 6 months from now. Small things seem to make a big difference in social networks even if they may Initially seem like clones. So let’s wait and see 
I cannot vouch on the security aspect of the application but what I can tell you that MessengerFX is a nice change from the other MSN Messenger applications that have sprouted all over the net. MessengerFX supports Turkish, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish … basically the main European languages. It also adds flash (sparkle) to your online chat behavior.
According to Yusuf Yildirim’s blog, he also runs Eskobo.com, an ajaxified start page a la netvibes.
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