Instant Messaging
What is Instant Messaging (IM)? Instant messaging allows you to detect when your friends are online and send them short messages in real-time. People just like you and I are finding instant messaging a...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Saturday and Sunday
The office will be open this weekend! I’m opening office hours Saturday from 1-3pm, and Sunday from 2-4pm (Pacific time zone). What in the world am I talking about? You can join me in our BigBlueBall...
View ArticleChat Lingo
Instant messaging and chat communications are often more informal than email, and you’ll see people using acronyms to quickly express emotion or just to communicate a lot of information with less...
View Articledrop.io adds real-time chat
drop.io promises simple, secure, real-time file sharing and collaboration. It’s easy to setup a drop.io “box” — you don’t even need to register. Once you’ve setup a drop.io space, you can send files,...
View Article50 Ways to use Skype at School
Skype is a terrific, free program for voice chat (and text or video chat, for that matter). I’ve used Skype to stay in touch with my son as he travels overseas in the Navy (Skype-to-Skype calls are...
View ArticleMake Your Own Google Bot
Chat bots can be fun or useful, but until now, deploying and maintaining a chat bot for Google Talk was difficult. Google has announced a new XMPP API that makes it easier to build your own chat bots...
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