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Encyclopedia > List of instant messengers

The following is a list of instant messaging clients. A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface Instant messaging is the act of instantly communicating between two or more people over a network such as the Internet. ...

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Official

Mainstream

The AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is an ad-supported instant messaging and presence computer program, published by AOL in October of 1997, which uses the OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol. ... Google Talk is a service offered by Google for Voice over IP and instant messenging. ... ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, created by Mirabilis, an Israeli start-up company based in Tel-Aviv. ... Jabber is an open, XML-based protocol for instant messaging and presence. ... Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, or XMPP, is an open, XML-based protocol for near real-time extensible messaging and presence events. ... Microsoft Messenger for Mac, previously MSN Messenger for Mac, is a production of the Macintosh Business Unit, a division of Microsoft. ... MSN Messenger is Microsofts instant messaging client for Windows computers aimed toward the home user. ... Psi is a GPLed instant messaging client for the Jabber (XMPP) protocol which uses the Qt toolkit. ... QQ2004 Main Board QQ, originally called OICQ, is the most popular free instant messaging computer program in China. ... Skype (IPA pronunciation: to rhyme with type) is a proprietary peer-to-peer internet telephony (VoIP) network, founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the creators of KaZaA and competing against established open VoIP protocols like SIP or H.323. ... Windows Messenger is an instant messaging client from Microsoft that can communicate both via SIMPLE and . ... Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client and protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic Yahoo! ID which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when...

Other

Akeni is a software company that specializes in Secure Enterprise Instant Messaging, live help, and live support products and services. ... Babble is a British internet telephony service. ... BitWise IM is a secure, cross-platform instant messaging program written using wxWidgets and is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. ... FotoSwap is an online digital photo sharing software application that allows people to instantly share a whole collection of personal photos with friends and family over the Internet. ... Gadu-Gadu is an instant messaging program that is popular in Poland. ... Instan-t is a powerful instant messaging software that allows you to communicate with MSN, AOL, Yahoo!, ICQ and Instan-t IM networks. ... IBM Lotus Sametime is the commercial Instant Messaging service by the Lotus Software brand of IBM. It provides instant messaging(IM) and presence awareness capabilities as well as support for web conferencing. ... The UNIX talk command shown in these screenshots was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s. ... Tlen is a generic Polish word for oxygen Tlen is also a free-of-charge Polish instant messenger. ... Xfire is a free instant messenger that lets people communicate with each other. ...

Third-party

Multi-protocol

Adium is an instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple protocols through the libgaim library. ... aMSN running on Fedora Core aMSN is an MSN Messenger clone licenced under the GPL. Its main objective is to assist users who are new to the Linux operating system keep in contact with those who use the Microsoft program, available only on Windows and Macintosh, by creating a similar... Ayttm is an instant messaging (aka chat) client that provides all-in-one chat functionality for several major instant messaging services from one simple program. ... BitlBee is an IRC to other IM-chat-networks gateway created by Wilmer van der Gaast and others. ... Centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, and Jabber protocols. ... Screen grab of #wikipedia Colloquy is an IRC and SILC client for Mac OS X. It uses Irssi as its IRC protocol engine, and supports customizable message views using XSLT and Apple Computers WebKit renderer, which is based on KHTML. The software supports plugins enabling integration with the OS... Easy Message is an interoperable messenger that supports MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and ICQ. Although it does not have all of the features of other messengers it is known for its extremely small size and low use of system resources. ... Fire is the first instant messenger client for Mac OS X (previously for OPENSTEP), that can access IRC, Jabber, AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, and Apple Bonjour. ... Gaim 1. ... Hello by Picasa is a free computer program that allows users to send images across the internet and publish them to their blogs. ... iChat is an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Jabber client for Mac OS X. Using a Jabber-like protocol and Bonjour for user discovery, it also allows for LAN communication. ... IM2 is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Microsoft Windows that allows users to chat across all major IM networks – AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, and IRC. All conversations with IM2 are secured end-to-end by default with encryption, ensuring that conversations will never inadvertently fall... Konnekt is a Polish instant messaging client for Microsoft Windows. ... Kopete is a multi-protocol instant messenger, supporting Jabber, ICQ, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, IRC, .NET Messenger Service, SMS, and Yahoo! Messenger. ... Milkbone is an instant messaging client. ... Meebo [1] is an Ajax instant messaging client that works with major instant messaging services, including AOL, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and Jabber. ... Meetro is a multi-network instant messenger with location-based services (LBS). ... Miranda Instant Messenger is a minimalistic, open source (GNU GPL) multiprotocol instant messaging application for Microsoft Windows. ... naim is a minimalist messaging and chat program written by Daniel Reed which supports the protocols AIM, ICQ, IRC, and lily (CMC). ... Odigo Messenger is an instant messaging service. ... pork is an ncurses-based AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and IRC client for UNIX-like operating systems. ... screenshot from the PowWow personal communicator chat program PowWow was one of the first Internet instant message and chat programs for Windows. ... Proteus is an instant messenger client for Mac OS X that can access the Jabber, AIM, .Mac, ICQ, MSN, Lotus Sametime, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Japan networks, as well as supporting chat over local Bonjour networks. ... Qnext is a Java-based P2P client that provides instant messaging, audio chat, video conferencing, music streaming, photo sharing, online gaming, file transfer and file sharing. ... Simple Instant Messenger (SIM) is an open source multiprotocol instant messaging client available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. SIM-ICQ was discontinued the last time, because the founder, A. Shutoff, has left the project. ... Trillian is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows created by Cerulean Studios that can connect to multiple IM programs from one client, such as AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, and Jabber and Skype networks (the latter four with Trillian Pro which allows for... Yamigo is a free service that allows instant messaging on mobile phones. ...

Single protocol

In computing, Licq is a free clone of the official ICQ client that runs on Linux and on other Unix systems. ... mICQ is a free text-based ICQ instant messaging application that runs on a wide variety of platforms, including AmigaOS, BeOS, Windows either using Cygwin or MinGW, OS X, NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD, the Sharp Zaurus and of course Linux and most commercial Unices including Solaris, HP-UX and AIX. mICQ...

Jabber protocol

Exodus is an open-source instant messenging (IM) client developed by Peter Millard and written in Borland Delphi that can connect to Jabber servers and exchange messages with other Jabber users. ... Gabber is a free software and open-source GNOME client for an instant messaging network called Jabber. ... Gajim is a libre software instant messaging client for the Jabber (XMPP) protocol which uses the GTK toolkit. ... Screenshot of Jajc roster (msStyle) JAJC is Jabber client for MS Windows written in Delphi by Mikel Ivanow. ... Psi is a GPLed instant messaging client for the Jabber (XMPP) protocol which uses the Qt toolkit. ... Tkabber is an open source client for the Jabber/XMPP instant messaging protocol. ...

See also


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MSN Messenger: Information from Answers.com (2978 words)
MSN Messenger was a free instant messaging client that was developed and distributed by Microsoft between 1999 and 2006 for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, and aimed towards home users.
MSN Web Messenger is a browser-based messaging program that allows MSN users to instant-message people on their contact list, from computers that do not or cannot have the program installed (ie public computers).
Messenger, there was noticeable evidence that Microsoft were suspiciously one step behind [3] in their offering of new features.
CNN.com - Technology - CNNdotCOM Tools: Instant messaging - November 4, 2000 (868 words)
One of the basic advantages of an instant messenger over e-mail is that you can immediately see the online status of the people you're trying to reach by looking at your "buddy" list, a menu of users with whom you communicate.
Some instant messengers allow you to choose any name you wish for your identity, but you may have to choose a unique user name if the one you like has already been taken.
The latest instant messengers allow you to customize the sounds you hear when you send and receive messages, or when buddies log on and off.
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