For the past week I have been describing instant messaging and chat in an ongoing series specially carved to get the user familiar with everything.
One of the issues with almost all applications is how they seem to hinder your work as much as it seems to help. This is also applicable to IM, lot of […]
The next level of chat would be to embed it in web sites. This is something we saw start out big about two years ago, with online community divided on the impact. Some were very excited and predicted the next big thing on user involvement in blogs while others questioned if it will really catch […]
Aha, something close to my heart. The movement of applications from desktop to web. It was probably inevitable that in the end the chat function also made its move to be a browser accessed service. Although it has yet to displace desktop clients, that day is probably not far away. The question is what are […]
One of the most important features of modern instant messaging is the interoperability of different clients. Earlier all major players supported their own proprietary protocols and many users had to use several clients to keep in touch with everyone. But after year 2000 we saw the arrival of many newcomers with interoperability in mind. If […]
The fact is that there are lots of services that we use today, but never really pay that much attention. Most of the time this is okay as you do not need a very deep knowledge to use the basic features. Also the shear amount of application and services running around means that one person […]