Instant messaging collaboration
Tim Julien wrote an interesting piece about how proprietary instant messaging networks—such as AIM and Y!M—are experimenting with the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). If this works out, we can finally say bye bye to contact–network incompatibilities in messaging clients.
If I remember my instant messaging market shares A‐B‐C right, Microsoft’s Live Messenger leads in Europe, AIM in North‐America, and Yahoo! in Asia. So the entire world except Europe may soon be using an open, expendable, and collaborative standard for instant messaging!
The significans of this is that everyone may soon only need one client and one log‐in to the instant messaging world. Everyone will be compatible with everyone. Finally!!
Copyright © 2008 Daniel Aleksandersen 2008-02-24 at 10:02
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