I have been getting IM spam on gtalk to get me to sign up on heysan. It comes from my gtalk friends and leads to a google sign in but on heysan.com. It's the exact same message coming from multiple people so its definitely autogenerated.<p>This shady approach, even if it's coming from a 3rd party incentivized to market heysan, mars this otherwise impressive achievment. Even if this is spam in the plaxo sense, I don't think it's a good thing.
Looks like Mozilla has blocked the heysan gtalk log in page as a web forgery.<p><a href="http://i36.tinypic.com/2iuccgg.png" rel="nofollow">http://i36.tinypic.com/2iuccgg.png</a><p><a href="http://m.heysan.com/gtalk" rel="nofollow">http://m.heysan.com/gtalk</a>
"Every single mobile web service should be looking at these guys to see how they are doing things. The site is also beautifully designed with a really clean UI.<p>The proof that Heysan is onto something interesting is in the stats which are absolutely jaw dropping - and remind me of the kind of figures facebook used to pump out after they started which made everyone sit up and take notice. The average user spends over 5 hours a month on heysan, they are doing 100 million page views a month and have 600,000 users. What is also amazing is that the largest markets for Heysan are not Indonesia or India like a lot of other mobile IM aggregators, but the UK and the US."<p>Awesome. Congrats.
Pretty big spike on alexa,<p><a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/heysan.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/heysan.com</a><p>Congrats :)
Since Heysan is web-based IM chat, the question is how many page loads each user does per a single session ? I believe it's a couple of thousands, so the overall user-flow is not huge.<p>The other thing is the article states that most users of Heysan come from US, but Alexa disagrees with that. Here's some data:<p>India 82.0%
United States 8.4%
United Kingdom 1.3%
Germany 0.6%
Indonesia 0.4%<p>So, my conclusion is that Heysan is doing good PR with this article, nothing else :-). Kudos to Heysan!
cool but destined to the same fate as meebo. the major IM players will never backdoor each other with out-of-agreement access to each others' users. if they wanted to, they could have all been doing that years ago, on mobile too. don't try to out-reason things, just accept that even though X and Y could interract trivially with open-source access libs, they would rather sit in a room for six months and do a one-off deal. so unless these guys get their own rev model, they will end up just like meebo...a cool service that is immune to acquisition