INSTANT MESSAGING
SITES
Instant Messaging Planet
Earthweb/internet.com website covering instant messaging for enterprise customers.
ARTICLES
AOL Links Instant Messenger Services
Despite denials, America Online appears to be integrating its two messaging services, ICQ and Instant Messenger; competitors want them to open the services to other messaging clients before being allowed to merge with Time Warner. (9/26/2000 at The Industry Standard)
AOL Out of Instant Messaging Standard Bake-Off
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is considering three proposals for instant messaging standards; AOL's proposal was rejected for being a framework rather than a true protocol. (8/3/2000 at InfoWorld)
Blind to Brand Name
The Jabber Enterprise IM solution is an open-source instant messaging solution which interoperates with other instant messaging systems and may be worth using for corporations. (8/27/2001 at InfoWorld)
Business: IM Is Getting Out of Control
Because of the lack of security and increasing popularity of instant messaging, a number of companies are working on secure IM applications for business use. (4/26/2001 at ZDNet)
Foundation to Promote Jabber IM
Jabber.com and the Jabber open-source project plan to establish the Jabber Foundation, dedicated to developing and promoting Jabber as a messaging/electronic presence platform and standard. (4/26/2001 at ZDNet)
ICQ Logs Spark Corporate Nightmare
eFront, an online advertising affiliation company, is suffering because hackers have posted the instant messaging archives of its CEO, Sam Jain, to numerous websites; Jain had ICQ set to log his messages. (3/15/2001 at News.com)
IETF split on instant messaging standard
Internet Engineering Task Force members can't agree on which of three instant-messaging frameworks - PRIM, SIMPLE, or IMXP - is best; so they'll let the market decide. (12/18/2000 at InfoWorld)
IM Poised to Become Instant Information Tool
Startup ActiveBuddy is working on building instant-messaging bots which provide users with information in response to requests for stock prices, music album information, and more. (4/25/2001 at News.com)
IM User Safety Top Priority
America Online says the reason it is dragging its feet on interoperability between its instant-messaging client and other IM clients is to protect its users' privacy. (6/27/2000 at CNNfn)
IM Users: Your Boss Is Watching
Corporations are turning towards business-oriented instant messaging platforms, like AOL's AIM Enterprise Gateway, to monitor and record employee instant messages. (11/11/2002 at Wired News)
JXTA Chat, Sans Server
Using JXTA to build a chat service that can be centralized, brokered, or decentralized. (6/5/2001 at OpenP2P.com)
The Language of IM
Experts say that Instant Messaging (IM) reduces the ability to communicate complex thoughts to, or interact meaningfully with, each other. (1/25/2000 at Wired News)
Messaging Vendors Rally Around SIMPLE Protocol
AOL Time Warner, Microsoft, and the IETF all appear to support development of SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) as an instant messaging/presence management standard. (8/6/2001 at Network World Fusion)
Messaging's Not-So-Instant Revolution
Attendees at Instant Messaging 2000 in Boston (a conference which AOL, instant-messaging market leader, refused to attend) hope that corporations will adopt IM products for internal use. (5/18/2000 at ZDNet)
No End In Sight For IM War
AOL continues to stop third-party instant messaging services (like Imici's and Odigo's) from operating with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). (8/17/2000 at TechWeb)
A P2P AIM Robot in Perl
Using Perl, you can write chat robots that work with AOL Instant Messenger. (9/28/2000 at WebReference.com)
XML Messaging With Jabber
An in-depth look at Jabber, and how it uses XML to move data between different Instant Messaging system protocols. (10/6/2000 at O'Reilly Network)
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