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The Business of Instant Messaging

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jabber-is-free dept.

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."

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  1. More than 1.1 billion IMs are sent every day by (1337)+God · · Score: 1, Troll

    More than 1.1 billion Instant Messages are sent out worldwide every day. For no reason.

    IMs are an attention-grabbing and nonsensical, not to mention unproductive, means of communication. Most people who use IMs to talk or share information also have access to other, non-IM technologies that pollute the Internet less and are cheaper.

    IMs are some of the most wasteful products, in terms of resources used, that continue to be marketed on our planet. Why do we send them out by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of saying LOL time and time again?

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