Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Jun 2007 16:28 UTC, submitted by mikemuch
"Tired of all the ads on AIM? Want access to more services than just Yahoo!? There are lots of IM client choices besides the big three - AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger). The software we examine here lets you hook into any of these three services, and usually more besides, like Jabber. Not all of these applications will offer all of the features you'll find on the big guys - video and voice chat come to mind - but most of them do a good job of unobtrusively keeping you in contact with your comrades."
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2005-07-23
And in New Zealand, MSN's pretty much the only one here. I'm told AIM is bigger in the States?
ICQ was bigger early on, but it's all but vanished - probably because of that stupid number system of theirs.
I know quite a few people who are on GTalk now, probably because it has a convenient web-based front end, something MS ignored for way too long. Still, it's interesting how fragmented IM is worldwide; it surprises me, given the obvious huge network effects.