{"id":81,"date":"2005-10-23T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/23\/instant-messaging-and-the-world-of-the-day-after-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2005-10-23T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T07:35:00","slug":"instant-messaging-and-the-world-of-the-day-after-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/23\/instant-messaging-and-the-world-of-the-day-after-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Messaging and the World Of The Day After Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is mostly an opinion post. Instant messaging is very much a part for most of our internet lives. I think the primary use of IM is to let people what you are doing, or insert a song lyric through an away message. The main problem I have with IM these days is that, everyone is on a different network, contacts are hard to manage and keep updated, and the ads, annoying stupid useless bells and whistles. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like to have lots of features, as long as they are incredibly useful, and aren&#8217;t meaningless time wasters.<\/p>\n<p>AIM, the king of instant messaging, apparently, has reigned for too long, and why? Because everyone who is anyone is on it. No other reason. Yahoo! has been innovating on it&#8217;s IM client for a while, but it still has too many annoying features like your personal Yahoo radio station, etc. I&#8217;m not saying that no one uses that feature, however, I&#8217;m saying for instant messaging, and communication, it doesn&#8217;t belong there. Sure, it&#8217;s convenient, but nothing more. I think IM should have a few simple qualifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy to use regardless of age. Meaning, a young kid can sign on, or an older relative. Simplicity.<\/li>\n<li>It should be somehow integrated with your e-mail address. If someone has your e-mail address, they can have your IM contact. (I know some of you are thinking, I don&#8217;t want anyone to have my instant message name, well that leads me to my next feature&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Invitation contact list only. A person can only add you to their list upon approval from&#8230; you.<\/li>\n<li>Simple bells and whistles relevant to communication, (voice, video, archiving of messages, contact lists.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I know my friends are going to think, &#8220;He&#8217;s going to say Google Talk&#8221;, and you are correct sort of. I would also say GAIM, however, GAIM doesn&#8217;t solve the problem, and Google Talk hasn&#8217;t yet, but they are on the right track. I think interoperability needs to be achieved. So that giving your IM contact would be the same as your e-mail or telephone number. People could contact regardless of what e-mail provider, phone provider, or <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">instant messaging client <\/span>they are using. As far as I&#8217;ve heard Google has been working to achieve this, and Microsoft and Yahoo! are linking their networks, so baby steps are being made.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much my thoughts on the subject. I know this maybe long and boring, but hey&#8230; think about it for just a second. Also, one closing thought. I know people like to express themselves, but using fonts, colors, and background colors isn&#8217;t helpful. I disable any fonts through my IM so I can read them, and the same goes for my e-mail. Clean text seem to me to be the best way of communicating. I&#8217;m willing to let you keep <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">bold <\/span>and <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">italics<\/span>. And you can change the <span style=\"font-size:180%;\">font size<\/span> once a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is mostly an opinion post. Instant messaging is very much a part for most of our internet lives. I think the primary use of IM is to let people what you are doing, or insert a song lyric through an away message. 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