The Business of Instant Messaging

willll writes "The Washington Post is running a story about how AOL plans to make money from Instant Messaging, one of the few successes in recent times for AOL. This article includes plans for corporate versions of AIM as well as discussion on some of the state on instant messaging."

Comments

Trillian

[PepperedApple]

Trillian lets you connect to AIM, ICQ, MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger, and IRC.

The biggest problem with IM is that you dont' choose a client because of features, you choose it because it's what the people you want to communicate with use. Trillian makes it a lot easier to talk to everyone you want.

Re:IM in business?

[tedDancin]

Yeah, you'd think so, but there are several uses for it. I've listed a few below.

RTFM

STFU

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Re:What about the others?

[packeteer]

the anti-page-widening-troll filter butchered the link. Click here if you want it to work. I mean no offense but if you want to se an impression posting broken URL's to weboards wont help. I will assume your new to slashdot as you are an AC and seem to not understand. If you are truly new yet you seem like a regular geek then... what the hell man where have you been? you have missed some sweet ass trolling and karma whoring going on...