Instant Messenger is Not Your Enemy
In this article, Elliott Masie discovers instant messaging. Some useful statistics ("8.8 million AOL IM users, 4.8 million MSN IM users and 3.4 million Yahoo! IM users") and background. Not mentioned in the survey is ICQ, the grand-daddy of instant messaging (since ICQ is now owned by AOL it may be lumped in with AOL-IM, above, but it is important to keep in mind that AOL-IM and ICQ are completely separate services). I have used ICQ for many years - my ICQ number is 1287181 for those of you who wish to give me a toodle. More...