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Instant Messaging

IM has become pervasive, with Skype, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Meebo, and many other providers to choose from. Discuss IM culture, and the impact IM has on business, communications, and relationships. Also, share news about IM providers... [more]

IM has become pervasive, with Skype, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Meebo, and many other providers to choose from. Discuss IM culture, and the impact IM has on business, communications, and relationships. Also, share news about IM providers and technology.

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XMPP might sound like a foreign language to you, but the extensible messaging and presence protocol was developed by Jabber and it’s the technology that powers many popular instant messenger clients. Today we’re learning from Process One that Facebook is readying an XMPP connection interface that would make it possible for you to use Facebook Chat with any XMPP/Jabber clients. In a nutshell, that means you soon might be able to use Facebook Chat within Google Talk and iChat. Once Facebook opens the doors to XMPP, each of the social network’s more than 300 million members will be able to chat with their Facebook ... Read Full Story
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Pidgin 2.6.3 download - Internet Messaging - Pidgin 2.6.3 Pidgin, previously known as Gaim, is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. Pidgin messenger is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, SILC, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is a program to chat with people using different chat programs. So,since you can chat interface interchangeably with Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! IM, Google Talk, and even participants in an IRC chat room. Among its important functions: sending files, emoticons, conversations displayed in tabs, recording of conversations, reports, various statements, transparency for ... Read Full Story
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Pidgin 2.6.3 download - Internet Messaging - Pidgin 2.6.3 Pidgin, previously known as Gaim, is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. Pidgin messenger is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, SILC, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is a program to chat with people using different chat programs. So,since you can chat interface interchangeably with Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! IM, Google Talk, and even participants in an IRC chat room. Among its important functions: sending files, emoticons, conversations displayed in tabs, recording of conversations, reports, various statements, transparency for ... Read Full Story
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Hillel Fuld authors a blog about technology and marketing at Technmarketing.com . You can follow him on Twitter . Since the proliferation of the Internet, instant messaging (IMing from here on in) has become a very popular means of communicating on the Web. Even with the rapid growth of Twitter, many people still communicate using IM. Now, there is no shortage of IM protocols out there; these include ICQ, AIM, GTalk, Yahoo, and Facebook, to name a few. IM aggregators aim to solve the mess of having all these programs open at once. Here is where it gets complicated. Depending on whether you’re on ... Read Full Story
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Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins. Pidgin supports many features of these ... Read Full Story
Pidgin Embedded Video is a GTK plugin for the popular instant messaging client Pidgin. It transforms a simple conversation into a much more attractive and interesting experience. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a faster way to watch videos while chatting with your friends. No more additional browser windows!  
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Pidgin (previously called Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend...  
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Lee Collins, V3.co.uk, Thursday 22 October 2009 at 15:32:00 Portable multi-platform IM client Multi-platform instant messaging program. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr....  
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I've been on the instant messaging service ICQ daily since 1997. Last week, though, my entry in some database apparently got screwed up, so my password no longer works and I can't get the retrieval mechanism to send me a new one. Looking through my contact list I then realised that I hardly ever use ICQ anymore, because almost everybody I chat to is on MSN. (I hadn't noticed since I use client software that handles several different messaging...  
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Facebook offers instant messaging and group chat features! Yes, you can log into your Facebook account, send "whispers" and messages to your buddies, and even collect them all into a group chat room.  These Facebook features work quite well, and are becoming very popular with millions of users. About.com tells us more about Facebook IM and chat...Facebook Instant Messenger originally appeared on About.com Internet for Beginners on Tuesday...  
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Here is some flavor from a U.S. New story about teen texting. It may surprise you: Forward-thinking teachers say the informal writing style that defines text messages can be incorporated into class lessons. And a new study from California State University researchers has found that texting can improve teens’ writing in informal essays and many other [...]  
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Windows users like to use Windows Live Messenger (formerly known as MSN Messenger) for instant messaging because the application comes with every installation of the Windows operating system. Windows users can conveniently use it without searching for other IM programs. There are some who hardly use Windows Live Messenger and find it an eyesore in their computer's system. If you are one of them, the MSN removal/uninstall tool WLMUninstall...  
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