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December 18, 2003
Instant Messaging InfoFest
If you've got any kind of interest in instant messaging, you owe it to yourself to read the many interesting articles in ACM Queue. Here are a few highlights:
- A Conversation with Peter Ford talks to the man behind MSN Messenger and a SIP advocate.
- On Helicopters and Submarines does a good job of making the case for Jabber as the common protocol.
- Beyond Instant Messaging discusses three projects that extend presence in ways that make it more useful.
One of the projects discussed in the last article talks about a system called Awarenex which puts activity indicators in the buddy list such as indicating when the person has a meeting scheduled on their calendar or even when they're on the phone. You can get some of this right now on the Mac using iChatStatus, a scriptable application that let's you automatically change your iChat status from a script. Mine let's people know what song I'm listening to in iTunes, but I don't see why it couldn't be programmed to tell people when I'm on a trip or have a meeting scheduled.