IMs TNT
Tried and tested two Instant Messengers(IM) today…
Instant Messengers are the new era of communication.. A survey showed that young people type more than they talk… A battle of Instant Messengers had risen… In Singapore, MSN Messenger is the most widely used IM service… Yahoo! Messenger comes with lots of features… But it is hardly used… Maybe due to the overcrowding of functions which people do not use… Now there is the Google Talk… ICQ and AOL had better buck up… But they should have enough users in the states…
MSN Messenger 7.5
The newest messenger on the block from Microsoft’s .NET arm… The MSN… Not much change from the version 7… Only change is with the starting page before you logon… Now, you can see your display picture before you logon… Not much of a use… And after you sign in… You have the Add contact bar at the top now… Instead of the bottom… Tabs, Personal Settings, remain the same…
Google Talk beta
Google has branched out into a broad area of free services.. Blogger is an example… Just like GMail… Many successful projects… But Google Talk may face some problems… First is the too little frills programme… Compared to MSN and Yahoo!… It is a real no frills… MSN Messenger has expanded greatly since the first generation long long ago… Maybe one day it would be Google… Speaking of Google… I remembered the days when I first saw Google… Years ago… When Google was unheard of… I found Google on a personal website of some kid… And being young and was expanding my own sites… I copied the script from the website on to my own homepage… And it was some time later… That Yahoo! used Google to power its searches… And after that… Google went out on its own again challenging Yahoo! and became the multi-billion dollar company today….
Back to the Google Talk…As you can see…Talk, has the Google trademark colours…Absolutely no frills except the voice conversation… Very plain… You cannot have a name as you want others to see it like MSN… Nor a personal message… I think that is the major reason why many are still sticking to MSN messenger….And where are you going to look for friends to talk to using this programme? But it is a very small programme, with the installation file at only less than an mb and no further downloading unlike Yahoo! where you download this installation program and it will download other files needed depending on your choice…
So its better to stick to the old MSN messenger before the yougsters start to switch over… And its time for Yahoo!, AOL and ICQ to think why they are not successful!