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August 24, 2005
Instant Messaging Trends
Kelvin Quee said:
Today (24 August 2005), Google started offering Google Talk Vo-IP (voice over IP) together with its Jabber-based IM (instant messaging) protocol.(More than) Coincidentally, Skype releases development tools to help developers add IM functionality to Skype on the same day.
The IM market is getting really interesting.
Here’s my recount of the history of IM, from my memory, from a Singaporean perspective.
It all started with ICQ, the grand-daddy of all IMs.
I'm shamelessly plugging myself, but I want to bring to light the recent trends in the Instant Messaging arena, to awake oblivious IM users who think that MSN is the only way to go and that we should all care about standards.
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