It seems like all hell has broken loose in the internet services and instant messaging arena. Just yesterday, Microsoft and Yahoo announced that they will make their IM technology work together, and now Google and ComCast have shown interest in AOL. All this just shortly after Google and Sun teamed up.
Let’s just hope that Google is immune to AOL’s “midas-touch”-like influence.
…and all this while we on the mac side are enjoying free IM, talk and video built in to the OS.
Im currently video-chatting with my sister studying in oregon (Im in sweden)
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…and all this while we on the mac side are enjoying free IM, talk and video built in to the OS.
Im currently video-chatting with my sister studying in oregon (Im in sweden)
…. all this while Windows users have programs to communicate with every single IM service using voice, video, and text, while Mac users only have AIM, and needed Apple to create a client for it because AOL/MSN/Yahoo! was too lazy to. Did you really think that Windows users didnt have a free IM program? If so… wow… when was the last time you used Windows? or talked to someone on Windows? Wow.
You DO know that all ichat does is connect to AIM? Videochat is something that Windows users have had for *years*. Linux has no support (or little) for voice/video but that may change with Gaim VV. As for “built into the OS”, when MS does it, it is a “bad thing”, but they have already included a client for video chat / IM free into the OS,
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/windowsmessenger/default.m…
Windows Messenger.
How is it that you figure that Mac users only have AIM as a chat client?
Time Warner’s chief executive has denied reports that it may be about to sell a stake in its America Online (AOL) unit to Google and Comcast.
Richard Parsons also said there were no plans for a tie-up with Microsoft’s search-engine technology.
Not news…. move along.
Actually, if a CEO denies it, they there must be some truth to it…
I guess the phrase “talk is cheap” is going to be turned on it’s ear.
I don’t see it happening; Google is using Jabber whilst AOL like Microsoft has reisted every advance to open up their protocol or make the protocol interact with other protocols such as Microsofts MSN.
If they really wish to wow me, how about Yahoo and AOL throwing out their proprietary protocols and then team up with Google, then work on advancing the Jabber protocol so that it becomes the defacto protocol for the internet.
“Just yesterday, Microsoft and Yahoo announced that they will make their IM technology work together”
I like nature channels, for example one day I was watching a documentary about two different wolves who hated each other, competed for food, but they joined together until the threats against them were gone. You can learn a lot about people and corporations from animals.