Now you might say… so why do you have all these services, anyway? Well, I’ve been online since the mid-1980’s and generally my work has always involved keeping up with new technology, so I’ve always dabbled in various services and slowly you develop this accretion of new IM accounts-each that different friends and others use. If I look at my own usage, I use Adium to unify:Īll of those in one client with one directory of users and one window for chats (each on their own tab-and yes, I could have chats in separate windows but I generally choose not to do so). Since I was updating Adium at the time, I took a moment to look at all the different protocols that Adium now supports… as seen in the screenshot on the right side of this post. Somewhat ironically, there was a discussion going on in a Skype groupchat in which I participate about the various IM protocols and whether anyone really used GTalk, etc. (And if you are a Yahoo IM user, you really need to get the 1.3.2b1 beta.) I was reminded of this fact this morning when I received a message saying that an update was available for Adium on my Mac that solved a really annoying disconnection problem with Yahoo!Messenger. Why not? Simple… we’ve unified the IM services on the client side and basically stopped caring about the various services and protocols. Odds are that if you are an IM user like me, you probably don’t. Do you care any more about zillion different IM services? Do you care about the IM protocol wars that have plagued the usage of IM for the last years?
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