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Bill de hÓra

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Bill de hÓra is a technical architect with Propylon
Jabber and IM walled gardens Posted: Jun 24, 2004 10:58 AM
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It seems Yahoo! are intent on locking out Trillian clients: Regardless of whether IM spam is a growing and gathering problem, Yahoo's actions against Trillian illustrate the Web giant's efforts to further wall-off its proprietary IM network. The Big Three equivalent for Internet services have all watched their IM software proliferate thanks to their closed-door environments. Consumers must download multiple clients to chat with buddies in different IM services. [CNET] This is like AOL and Compuserve walled gardens all over again. If this keeps up, using proprietary IM is going be more and more like using those services back in the Nineties. You would think Yahoo! (and Trillian) would understand the futility of this and adopt Jabber as IM's answer to the Web. Anything else is a race to the bottom....

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