November 1, 2005
News Via Instant Messenger
"The Netherlands is somewhat of a test market for services around Instant Messenger, Microsoft's chat client.
With 4 million active IM users in a country of 15 million, IM is incredibly popular, and becoming a mass medium in its own right. Microsoft is now starting to give out licenses for commercial "chatbots" that users can add to their buddy list.
Dutch banks already have started to use the service: Postbank and SNSBank ran trials in which IM users could get account information within the IM chat -- just by typing in questions like "How much money do I have?"
The system would recognize most natural-language questions around such a defined topic. The city of Utrecht ran a campaign in which IM users could ask natural-language questions about local events."
December 3, 2002
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November 17, 2004
Instant Messaging Graduates To Full Real-Time Collaboration: Trillian 3 Shows The Way
According to a sneak preview page on Cerulean Studios' Trillian website, the soon to be released Version 3 of the Trillian instant messaging application will incorporate a wide range of new features, including integration with the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, as well as real-time video and audio... read more
October 24, 2004
Monitor Key News Sources Via IM: Microsoft Alerts
Get a real-time fix of Robin Good Latest News in four new different and tasty flavours: via MSN® Messenger Microsoft Windows® Messenger your e-mail inbox or to a supported wireless mobile device or cell phone. ... read more
May 3, 2004
Instant Messaging Launchpad For Full Conferencing And Collaboration: YM Goes 6
A new version of Yahoo Messenger is available since more than a week on the Messenger web site, showcasing, like for other recent upgrades from the other major IM players, an increased interest in making these tools the common basic launching pad for collaboration and conferencing... read more
April 29, 2004
Defining Online Collaboration: More Than Just Technology
The META Group "defines collaboration as social skills, relationships, and practices, along with technology services, that improve how people work jointly and substantially together (sharing responsibility and risk) - to communicate needs, coordinate activities, share information, exchange know-how, build community, or achieve a common (team) objective... read more
