Comments on: Yahoo, MSN Play Nice on VoIM

By: Om Malik on Broadband : » Hey AOL, You Got Googled

Om Malik on Broadband : » Hey AOL, You Got Googled — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:08:34 +0000

[...] AOL, by the way continues to be the king maker in the Internet space, despite its troubles. I think many, scratch that, almost all have focused on the advertising aspect of this deal. In my mind, this is a deal which has larger strategic implications. The first – the instant messaging. The two companies explicitly state that they are going to interoperate their IM networks. For Google’s GTalk, this is a big boost, something it needed desperately in order to increase traction when compared to Microsoft and Yahoo. The IM alliance between Google-AOL is a good way to combat Microsoft-Yahoo IM combo. Wait, there is more…. Google had announced major voice-related announcements to the Jabber platform via its Jingle project. With the release of Libjingle, the makers of these clients will be able to add the ability to make and receive calls between their clients and Google Talk. In fact, they’ll be able to support calls between their clients and ANY OTHER clients that support Libjingle . [...]

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Om Malik’s Blog » Blog Archive » Hey AOL, You Got Googled — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:46:03 +0000

By: richard weber

richard weber — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:11:06 +0000

i like yahoo games ,very challing,yet some wont let me play i am still wondering why,yahoo is cool other than that..

By: Yhancik Magazine

Yhancik Magazine — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:21:56 +0000

saturday’s linkdump

In case you’re not aware, Microsoft and Yahoo announced some interoperability between MSN and YahooIM
which basically means that MSN and YIM users will be able to talk together while keeping their favourite IM client

By: Software Only

Software Only — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:56:08 +0000

MSN and YIM interoperability – at last

The widely anticipated announcement is now out: MICROSOFT AND YAHOO! ANNOUNCE LANDMARK INTEROPERABILITY AGREEMENT TO CONNECT CONSUMER INSTANT MESSAGING COMMUNITIES GLOBALLY. One of the longest standing Internet âBerlin wallsâ? is about to collapse, …

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:59:21 +0000

sorry david, i meant unless it works with AOL’s IM it doesn’t really mean anything as a US ocnusmer. today’s WSJ had some data and it shows that AIM is the majority player and we really don’t get the benefit of this alliance. i should have been more explicit

By: Aswath Rao

Aswath Rao — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:56:42 +0000

How about facilitating click-to-call and the related pay-per-call that was the talk of the town when eBay/Skype “partnership” was announced?

By: David

David — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:56:25 +0000

You are contradicting yourself. First off you say the interoperability is no big deal (meaning this changes nothing). And then you say that they HAVE to deal with AOL’s IM (presumably meaning this would change something). Explain me please.

By: TechBlog

TechBlog — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:36:31 +0000

Yahoo, Microsoft to lower IM walls

The Associated Press and several others are reporting that Microsoft and Yahoo have reached a deal to let users of their respective instant messaging products talk to each other. From the AP story: A Yahoo-Microsoft partnership, allowing users of the…

By: Anurag (Anu) Nigam

Anurag (Anu) Nigam — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:39:40 +0000

I think the reason they did this isn’t for the desktop, but for mobile devices. Most users are using the cell phone more and they are frustrated with the IM clients that don’t work together. If they aren’t interoperable on the cell phone then users will keep using SMS or MMS. By working together, they hope to make IM the client of choice on the cell phone.