Comments on: AOL’s VoIP-Video Enabled IM

By: Victor Blake

Victor Blake — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:42:53 +0000

For the record AIM trialed VoIP with AIM in 1998.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:00:43 +0000

Aswath, I think SKype has already replaced all the other IM clients for those who are tech-savy. It’s been a long time since I used AIM, but I can’t say that for Skype (both voice and chat).

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:41:42 +0000

Yes that is true, and i think the ENUM group should try and get its act together. I think it is time the non-skype community got its act together and stop with their geek fetishes over everything.

By: Aswath Rao

Aswath Rao — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:52:53 +0000

MSN claimed that they upgraded their client for voice and video communication. Now AOL. I wonder whether they are really responses to Skype. I think it is time the ENUM group (http://www.sienum.co.uk/lookup.php) better add mapping capability to MSN, AOL, Yahoo, FWD, SIPPhone ad nausem.

More to the point, is Skype becoming another client that we will have along with these multiple IM clients?

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:01:57 +0000

pb, give the guy a break, he works for AOL. :-)

By: pb

pb — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:48:39 +0000

“Would you ever have thought in 1996 that this computer is going to be used for … sending stuff to mobile phones and initiating calls over the Internet?”

Uhmm…yes. More like “fully expected”.

By: pb

pb — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:46:52 +0000

If the IM networks were open, stuff like this would have been delivered a decade ago.

Google could easily eliminate the other networks by introducing a well-implemented Jabber-based, open IM client.