BigString Corporation has introduced a cross-platform, Web-based instant messaging (IM) application that enables users to send self-destructing or regular IMs across AOL's (News - Alert) AIM, Yahoo's Messenger, MSN's Messenger and Google's Gtalk.

 

The free Web application incorporates BigString's patent-pending IM technology that allows a user to send IMs which self-destruct without being copied, logged or screen-printed by the recipient.

 

In addition to enabling users to send IMs from one service to another, the patent-pending IM technology leaves no trail or copy of the IM on any server once the message self-destructs. The time for self-destruction is set by the sender, and can be set to disappear in as little as a few seconds to more than an hour.

 

“Our new Web-based IM makes it very easy for IM users to have private conversations with your current IM buddy lists without having to switch to a new service," said Darin Myman, president and CEO of BigString Corporation.

 

"Our strategy to quickly grow our IM user base revolves around creating unique applications such as this one that leverages the tens of millions of existing IM users."

 

BigString Corporation, owner and operator of BigString.com, is a provider of social networking messaging applications and user-controllable email services. In addition to permitting users to send recallable, erasable, self-destructing emails and video e-mails, BigString's patent-pending technology allows emails and pictures to be rendered non-forwardable, non-printable and non-savable before or after the recipients read them, no matter what email service provider is used.

 

Earlier in June, BigString Corporation announced the sale of FindItAll.com and its related assets to FindItAll, Inc., a development stage company, and the sale of AmericanMoBlog.com and its related assets to AmericanMoBlog, Inc., also a development stage company.

 

In exchange for the sale of these Web sites and their related assets, BigString received 20 million shares of FindItAll, Inc.’s common stock and a de minimis amount of cash.

 

FindItAll.com, a video search engine, and AmericanMoBlog.com, a photo sharing Web site, were acquired by BigString in May 2006.

 

FindItAll and AmericanMoBlog have acquired the respective Web sites from BigString for purposes of further developing and marketing the Web sites.