Posts with keyword: instant+messaging

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EFail, not EMail

Wed Nov 26 19:25:00 2008

Jeff Atwood has a longish post on the problems with email. Of course, the biggest problem with email is there's way too much of it. I used to try to respond to each (non-spam) email I got but now I can't keep up. Unfortunately, I can't let each email commit me to spend time. Jeff references Tantek Çelik's excellent post on the subject and gives three pieces of advice: Channel that private email effort into a public outlet. Discussion boards, blog entries, comments, wikis, you name it. If it can be indexed by a web search
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Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network

Tue Apr 22 21:35:00 2008

Collect 150Gb/day of compressed log files from MSN instant messenger over thirty days (June 2006) and you find on a typical day you get 1 billion conversations, 93 million users logged in with 65 million of those actually engaging in a conversation. This is the basis of research by Jure Leskovec and Eric Horvitz. The demographics of MSN users shows that, not surprisingly, they're far younger than the general population. The probability of any two users having a conversation with each other isn't largely affected by their repsective ages or genders. One interesting finding is that people are more
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