
The ekko Bar houses a unique set of real-time communication modules allowing users and community to stay in touch with their closest personal contacts without ever leaving your site. These tools are easy to implement and effectively increase time spent on the site and traffic by giving users the ability to invite their friends to experience and share content with one another.

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Give users the ability to communicate with their buddies instantly from anywhere on your site. The ekko Messenger Aggregator makes it easy for your users to log in to the most popular instant messenger services, and share content with friends or invite them to pages in your site. Supported services include:

The ekko Private Label Messenger allows site owners to provide their own, branded real-time messenger to registered users, making connecting and communicating with friends easier than ever in real-time. It also allows sites without an active social graph to create one on the fly.
The Group Text Chat allows you to add public and private rooms to the Bar in your site. With this module, users will be able to browse the site wihout losing the conversation in the chat group they are in. Give the users the freedom to browse within your site and chat in rooms at the same time.

Bring conversations to life by allowing users to discuss the content on your site face-to-face. ekko's patent-pending sync technology permits anyone, regardless of operating system or browser to instantly jump into a conversation without having to worry about cumbersome downloads and installations. With one click access from any of the messenger products, users easily can invite their friends across networks to discussions in your environment.

Drive discussion and interaction around live and on-demand media anywhere on your site. The ekko Media Whiteboard allows videos, pictures , music and more to be viewed and controlled during the course of a text or video/audio chat.
