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Chatter Messenger – Real-Time Synchronicity

Chatter Messenger – Real-Time Synchronicity

By Ben Kepes on May 22, 2012

  Messenger sees salesforce roll out technology they gained from the acquisition of DimDim – real time aims to build upon the usage of Chatter by offering a whole raft of real time functionality that will remove the need for organizations to continue using a number of tools they currently do. Real time enables presence […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged chatter, cloudforce, dimdim, dreamforce, instant messaging, messenger, Realtime, salesforce, salesforce.com, San Francisco

Presence for Mobile Phones?

Presence for Mobile Phones?

By Guest Authors on August 28, 2010

How often do we see mobile phones ringing/vibrating in a meeting? I see this in almost every meeting. We have an option to set our online presence to ‘Busy’ to avoid any IMs, Skype calls etc. But sadly, we don’t have a similar option for our mobile phones. I like working late and more often […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged google, instant messaging, Mobile phone, phone, presence, skype

As Twitter Takes Over IM, We Need Clients with Friendly Nicknames

As Twitter Takes Over IM, We Need Clients with Friendly Nicknames

By Zoli Erdos on March 30, 2010

It used to be Yahoo, MSN or AOL chat. Then Skype took over – it is my default IM system now, despite it’s obvious flaws. But nowadays the fastest way to reach most of my contacts is DM on Twitter.  That is if I can remember their Twitter account names. While @firstnamelastname has become a […]

Posted in General | Tagged chat, contacts, im, im clients, instant messaging, skype, twitter, twitter clients

Twitter is IM (and Why the Limit is 140 characters)

Twitter is IM (and Why the Limit is 140 characters)

By Mark Suster on July 16, 2009

This is the second posting in a series I’m calling Twitter 101 for all those that say “I don’t get it?”  The first post is here and if you want to see the outline it’s here. In the first post I talked about how Twitter is a real-time news source where by subscribing to the […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged im, instant messaging, microblogging, mobility, social media, twitter, twitter 101 | 1 Response

The Skype Beta Downgrade – First Impressions

The Skype Beta Downgrade – First Impressions

By Zoli Erdos on October 1, 2008

First, kudos to Skype – for listening to customers, many of whom considered the first Skype 4.0 beta’s full-screen a deal-breaker.  Yes, they listened and gave us a compact view, somewhat similar to good old 3.x, which is why I installed it in the first place, but after an hour or so I am ready […]

Posted in Design, Product reviews | Tagged beta, chat, communication, im, instant messaging, multichannel, multitasking, skype, skype beta, trillian, video chat, videophone, voip | 11 Responses

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