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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Instant messaging: I'm going with iChat
As a reporter, I feel duty bound to try use everyone's applications as much as possible but I've decided that when it comes to instant messaging, I'm going to favour one product over the other. The winner, if you will, is iChat from Apple. You'll be able to find me on iChat at jdavidakin@mac.com . AIM and ICQ users should be able to see me there as iChat is compatible with America Online's instant messaging protocols (I may be misinformed on this. If so -- let me know. )
I'm going to try have iChat up and running just about any time I'm in front of a computer. I will also likely have Yahoo's Instant Messenger where my handle is davidakin2372. I'm pegging it as my number two IM client. Finally, if you're nuts to chat on it and don't have anything else installed, send me e-mail and Ill fire up MSN Messenger. Otherwise my presence on MSN Messenger -- where I log in as dakin@ctv.ca -- will be intermittent.
I make these choices not necessarily to recommend one client over the other but I find MSN Messenger drops the network connection too frequently to be useful. Moreover, if I'm using a portable, as I often am, I may lose a network connection as I move about. iChat automatically logs you back in. Yahoo and MSN do not.
There are some other interface and useability issues that make me prefer iChat to the others.
What I don't like about the whole kit and kaboodle is that these software vendors cannot agree on one standard to make their IM and chat networks compatible. Can't we all just get along so that it matters not what IM client I choose? Please?
One of the things I like about both iChat and Yahoo is the ability to set up custom status messages. You may be able to do that with MSN Messenger by editing your public profile but to edit your public profile, I have to fire up a Web browser and log in to MSN's Passport site. Personally, I've never found the whole Passport idea to be much use. Some may have but I'm not one of them. If I want to change profiles or any other preferences for my IM environment, I'd rather just do it within the application and not have to launch another application to do it.
So there you have it: Love to add you to my buddy list on iChat or Yahoo Messenger but you're going to have to be a real special buddy to get me to fire up MSN Messenger.
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Re: Instant messaging: I'm going with iChat
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Anonymous
on Fri 22 Apr 2005 09:06 AM EDT | Permanent Link
Have you ever considered using Jabber?
http://jabber.org |
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