Alec Saunders on IM Detente
As a follow up to my prior post, Alec just dropped me a note letting me know about this post he wrote this morning.
Alec's got a pretty keen eye for key issues and he does a great job of cutting through all the fluff to get straight to the heart of things. I need to study his post and read some of the other related stories. His response to Phil Wolff's thoughts is dead on target -Detente in IM’s Cold War?
- Skype protocol cracked. By the end of this month it seems that we may have the ability to interoperate with the Skype network without needing… Skype. That opens up the possibilities for Skype PBXs, Skype CRMs, and so on. Big news!
- Yahoo / MSN Federate, creating a massive IM cloud, bigger than anything else on the planet. It sucks that they aren’t opening this up further, but it’s a first step.
- GTalk is the dog of IM systems. With just 3.4 million users, who really gives a damn what they do?
...the only real option is to open up. Skype should take a leadership position in publishing those protocols, and encourage others to build upon them.
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I'm surprised Google has that many users; it has only been 6 months since GTalk started. They will make some big associations and partnerships. Nokia for starters. Don't write them off.
Posted by: Rick | July 14, 2006 11:33 AM