[olug] Instant messaging

[Adam Haeder]

One of the big advantages I've seen to instant messaging is the ability to
see at a glance who's in front of their computer. We use icq pretty
extensively at my company, and a lot of times it's just to know where people
are. We have so many people working from home or on the road that it's a
nightmare trying to track someone down. I can't tell you the number of times
I've gotten into the office, moved my mouse and had my phone ring 5 seconds
later because my boss needs to talk to me and he saw that I'm online.

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ferguson [mailto:jferguson3 at home.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:48 PM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: Re: [olug] Instant messaging


Ive personally only tried the two big ones: ICQ (via GnomeICU) and
AIM (via jabber). Of the two, I preferred GnomeICU.  I dont have to log
in, and it integrates into the Gnome panel quite nicely.  If jabber
integrates some day, Ill take a look at it.

But, I dont think that Instant Message is the next big thing.  I dont see
alot of advantages of it over standard email. What little I cant do in
email instead of ICQ, I can do in IRC.

I have another theory for the third one: Networked Gaming. Theres two
sides to this... the ability to hook up a LAN and play against your
friends, or the ability to join into Everquest/Ultima Online/etc.

Okay, theres my two credits worth. Next theory?

Jason

Mike Hostetler wrote:

> This is mostly a discussion that I want to start, as opposed
> to a config problem, etc.
>
> I believe in the Law Of Threes - meaning that if something is
> going to come along that is going to change our lives, it
> needs to do it in at least three ways.  For the Internet, we
> now have the web and email, but what is the third?  Some believe
> that it is instant messaging.  I'm not so sure, but I
> believe that it will be something like a combo of instant
> messaging and Napster.
>
> Anyway, what I was really wondering, is what kind of instant
> messaging do people in OLUG use?  My issue is that I have
> some friends that use Yahoo Messenger, others use ICQ.  For
> that, I use Everybuddy (http://www.everybuddy.com), which
> supports ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo.  It works pretty well, but it
> only allows file transfers between Everybuddy users.
> Also, you have to have an account at ICQ, Yahoo, etc., for
> it to work (which only makes sense, I guess).
>
> And what about Jabber?  It seems like a cool idea - an open
> source instant messaging framework.  I grabbed the RPM for
> Gabber (http://gabber.sourceforge.net), which started out at
> the "official" Linux/Gnome Jabber client and it says it
> also supports ICQ and Yahoo, but I never got them all to
> work.  Does anyone here use it???  (I should also state that
> newest Everybuddy support Jabber, and it does seem to work,
> after I manually edited the prefs file).
>
> Also, since I'm talking about it . . . my info is:
> ICQ - 75415693
> Jabber and Yahoo -  thehaas
> AIM - thehaas1 (someone stole my handle!!!)
>
> okay, now discuss!!
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Mike Hostetler
> thehaas at binary.net
> http://www.binary.net/thehaas
> GnuPG key: http://www.binary.net/thehaas/mikeh.gpg
>
> "What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow
> in his footsteps?"
>
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