Comparison of instant messengers

List of Jabber clients - Open Source. Adium X (Mac OS X) http://www.adiumx.com/ Bitlbee (Cross-platform) http://www.bitlbee.org/ Centericq (Cross-platform) http://konst.org.ua/en/centericq/ Fire (Mac OS X) http://fire.sourceforge.net/ Gaim (Cross-platform) http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Kopete (Linux/Unix) http://kopete.kde.org/ Miranda IM (Windows) http://miranda-im.org/ SIM (Cross-platform) http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/ List of Jabber clients - Freeware. Gizmo (V ...

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List of Jabber clients, List of Jabber clients - Jabber-only, List of Jabber clients - Open Source, List of Jabber clients - Freeware, List of Jabber clients - Commercial, List of Jabber clients - Multi-Protocol, List of Jabber clients - Open Source, List of Jabber clients - Freeware, List of Jabber clients - Commercial

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There have been several attempts to create a unified standard for instant messaging: IETF's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leverage), APEX (Application Exchange), Prim (Presence and Instant Messaging Protocol), the open XML-based XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), more commonly known as Jabber and OMA's (Open Mobile Alliance) IMPS (Instant Messaging and Presence Service) created specifically for mobile devices. Most attempts at creating a unified standard for the major IM providers (AOL, Yahoo! and Microsoft) have failed and ea ...

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Instant messaging, Instant messaging - Overview, Instant messaging - History, Instant messaging - Origin of term, Instant messaging - Cooperation, Instant messaging - Decentralized instant messaging, Instant messaging - Servers, Instant messaging - User base

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A short film about ICQ was written in 2001 called ICQ and was written by Greg McLean, who later wrote Wolf Creek. The film was described by its writer as a mystery/drama, and it concerns a man who while surfing the ICQ network comes across a woman whose acquaintance he could well have done without. The relationship runs the gauntlet of intrigue through to the sinister. The short film took out the "Best Director" award in October 2001 at the International and Independent Film and Video festival in New York. On return to his home soil in Australia, McLean's film was nominated for Best Sound Design (short film) for the prestigious AFI (Australian Fi ...

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ICQ, ICQ - Features, ICQ - History, ICQ - Other products, ICQ - Clients, ICQ - Films

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ICQ was developed in 1996 by Mirabilis, the creators of the first fully functional internet-wide Instant messanger comprising presence, buddy list and rapid messaging was founded by four young Israelis: Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir. After AOL bought it, it was managed by Ariel Yarnitsky and Avi Shechter. America Online (AOL) acquired Mirabilis on June 8, 1998 for $287 million in cash. On December 19, 2002, AOL Time Warner announced that ICQ had been issued a United State ...

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ICQ, ICQ - Features, ICQ - History, ICQ - Other products, ICQ - Clients, ICQ - Films

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ICQ Pro came about since the emergence of ICQ Lite to differentiate between the two available clients. However, ever since AOL's involvement, development of ICQ Pro 2003 had effectively been left abandoned, to the disappointment of veteran users of ICQ. Spinoffs of ICQ included a corporate version for the workplace (named ICQ Groupware), and ICQ Surf, which displayed a list of other ICQ users who also happened to be surfing on the same website as you were. Both program ...

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ICQ, ICQ - Features, ICQ - History, ICQ - Other products, ICQ - Clients, ICQ - Films

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AOL's OSCAR network protocol used by ICQ is proprietary, but a number of people have created more or less compatible third-party clients, including: Adium - supports ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN and Jabber, for Mac OS X Ayttm - supports ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, and Jabber centericq - supports ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC and Jabber, text-based Easy Message (http://www.easymessage.net/) - Small instant messenger (250kb), supports MSN, AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo. Fire - supports ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, a ...

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ICQ, ICQ - Features, ICQ - History, ICQ - Other products, ICQ - Clients, ICQ - Films

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List of instant messaging clients - Multi-protocol. Adium (Mac) Ayttm (*nix, Windows) BitlBee (*nix, Mac, Windows) Centericq (Mac) Colloquy (Mac) Easy message (Windows) Fire (Mac) Gaim (*nix, Mac, SkyOS, Qtopia) Hello (Windows) iChat (Mac) IM2 (Windows) Instan-t (Windows) Konnekt (Windows) Kopete (*nix) Milkbone (*nix, Mac, Windows) Meebo (Internet) Meetro (Wind ...

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List of instant messaging clients, List of instant messaging clients - Official, List of instant messaging clients - Mainstream, List of instant messaging clients - Other, List of instant messaging clients - Third-party, List of instant messaging clients - Multi-protocol, List of instant messaging clients - Single protocol, List of instant messaging clients - Jabber protocol

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In a few places around the world, communities have evolved where the main focus is advocating Jabber and bringing Jabber closer to the end user. Usually services are offered, such as a Jabber server, a web portal to assist users with signing up to Jabber and forums. Some examples of these Jabber communities include: Jabber Africa (Africa) - http://www.jabberafrica.org/ Jabber Australia (Australia) - http://www.jabber.org.au/ Jabber Brasil Grupo de Usuários Jabber do Brasil - http://guj.codigolivre.org.b ...

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Jabber, Jabber - History, Jabber - Advantages, Jabber - How it works, Jabber - Connecting to other protocols, Jabber - Jabber and HTTP, Jabber - Regional Jabber communities

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Jeremie Miller began the project in 1998; its first major public release occurred in May 2000. The project's main product is jabberd, a server to which Jabber clients connect in order to chat. This server can either create a private Jabber network (behind a firewall, for instance) or it can join the global public Jabber network. The key features of Jabber are the distributed nature of the IM sy ...

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Jabber, Jabber - History, Jabber - Advantages, Jabber - How it works, Jabber - Jabber ID, Jabber - Connecting to other protocols, Jabber - Jabber and HTTP, Jabber - Regional Jabber communities

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Another interesting aspect of the Jabber protocol and server is the HTTP binding for users behind restricted firewalls. Jabber can use HTTP in two ways: polling and AJAX. HTTP polling essentially implies messages stored on a server-side database being fetched (and posted) regularly by a Jabber client by way of HTTP 'GET' and 'POST' requests. With the Ajax binding the client uses longer-lived HTTP connections to receive messages as soon as they are sen ...

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Jabber, Jabber - History, Jabber - Advantages, Jabber - How it works, Jabber - Jabber ID, Jabber - Connecting to other protocols, Jabber - Jabber and HTTP, Jabber - Regional Jabber communities

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In a few places around the world, communities have evolved where the main focus is advocating Jabber and bringing Jabber closer to the end user. Usually services are offered, such as a Jabber server, a web portal to assist users with signing up to Jabber and forums. Some examples of these Jabber communities include: Jabber Africa (Africa) - http://www.jabberafrica.org/ Jabber Australia (Australia) - http://www.jabber.org.au/ Jabber Brasil Grupo de Usuários Jabber do Brasil - http://guj.codigolivre.org.b ...

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Jabber, Jabber - History, Jabber - Advantages, Jabber - How it works, Jabber - Jabber ID, Jabber - Connecting to other protocols, Jabber - Jabber and HTTP, Jabber - Regional Jabber communities

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MSN Messenger is not the only instant messaging program available. Its most significant rivals are AIM (from AOL), ICQ, Google Talk, QQ, Skype and a myriad of other Jabber based clients. As of October 13th, 2005, MSN Messenger and former rival Yahoo Instant Messenger will join forces to create the second largest instant messenger userbase worldwide. For Windows and Linux users, an open source instant messaging client known as Gaim also exists. It does not yet have the level of functionality that MSN Messenger does, rather it focuses o ...

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Google has announced that a major goal of the Google Talk service is interoperability. Google Talk uses Jabber and XMPP to provide real-time extensible messaging and presence events, including offline messaging (only through non-Google clients like Adium). On January 17, 2006, Google enabled server-to-server communications, federating itself with any Jabber server that supports the dialback protocol. [4] On December 15, 2005, Google released libjingle, a C++ library to implement Jingle, "a set of extensions to the IETF's Extens ...

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Google Talk, Google Talk - History, Google Talk - Technical, Google Talk - Criticism reviews and bugs, Google Talk - Future releases

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QQ has faced many criticisms and controversies. QQ - Keyword Filtering. In August 2004, QQ Games start to filter keywords such as "钓鱼岛" (Senkaku Islands) and "保钓" (Keeping the Senkaku Islands). This act caused much controversy and Tencent had since lifted the filter. QQ - QQ Group Real Name Scheme. July 21, 2005, Tencent announced its intention to follow orders set by Shenzhen Police and enforce the requirement of real names for all the administrator and founde ...

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The protocol is closed and Microsoft has made two attempts of locking out third-party clients by requiring data transformed by the use of hash functions when connecting. However, both algorithms have been reverse engineered. The winks have a digital signature, which the official client always checks. It will not play winks that are not signed by Microsoft. Ever since MSN Messenger has been released, it has been targeted entirely towards Windows users, leaving Mac users with a limited featureless client, only allowing them to chat with ...

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Yahoo! Messenger - Windows. Prior Releases — Undocumented 7.0.0.426 — August 8, 2005 Renamed to "Yahoo! Messenger with Voice" Drag-and-drop photo sharing Drag-and-drop file sharing PC-to-PC calling Voicemail Ringtones Yahoo! 360 integration Pop-up Contact Cards Spam Reporting New tabs New emoticons Archive updates LiveWord ...

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Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger - Yahoo Rooms, Yahoo! Messenger - Latest Releases, Yahoo! Messenger - Windows, Yahoo! Messenger - Mac OS X and Mac OS 8/9, Yahoo! Messenger - Unix, Yahoo! Messenger - Feature & Release History, Yahoo! Messenger - Windows, Yahoo! Messenger - Plugins

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It is estimated that there are over 150 million QQ users in China. As of 5 March 2005, there are an average of 9 million people online at any one time on the Mainland China server. QQ - Usage outside China. Outside of China, QQ usage is extremely limited, except in South Africa, where it has been used for at least two or three years and has inspired a song by local band The Finkelsteins called "QQ Me". QQ is only used by people who want to communicate with people inside those countries. Examples include ex ...

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QQ, QQ - Usage, QQ - Usage outside China, QQ - Client, QQ - Development, QQ - Naming, QQ - Membership, QQ - Versions, QQ - TM, QQ - Commercial Service, QQ - Merchandise, QQ - Controversies and Criticisms, QQ - Keyword Filtering, QQ - QQ Group Real Name Scheme, QQ - QQ levels, QQ - Plagiarism, QQ - Adult Materials on QQ.com, QQ - Resource Hungry

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Information on what advanced conferencing features each of the clients support. = With the Gizmo plugin. Note 1: MirandaComm plugin allows voice communcation between two Miranda users who have the plugin installed. Only tested with users of ICQ protocol. Note 2: There is a project called gaim-vv aimed at adding voice and video functionality. At the moment, it's being backported to the main Gaim source tree, and will be an official part of Gaim on version 2.0. [5] See also:

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The operating systems the clients can run on without emulation or compatibility layers. Note 1: The Mac OS X version must be self compiled, and will only run with an X server and GTK+ installed. Note 2: Requires ANSI terminal. See e.g. Windows ANSI driver problem on how to load ANSI.SYS. Note 3: MSN Web Messenger can be used with a compatible browser and valid Microsoft Passport Network account. Note 4: Numerous talk/ytal ...

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Information on the instant messaging protocols that each client supports. Note 1: Plugin available [3] Note 2: Plugin available Note 3: Interoperability with proprietary protocols can be achieved using server-side gateways (so-called transports) in Jabber. Note 4: Plugin available, but requires Skype to be installed. Note 5: LAN and chat protocols supported for Miranda include NetSend, WinPopup, Nov ...

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