What’s so exclusive about IM? | Perspectives | CNET News.com
If you are a Trillian user, you're probably aware that Yahoo is blocking your access and although Trillian was patched to get their users back online, Yahoo has said it would keep blocking Trillian.
Chris Cooper's article here touches on one of the fundamental flaws in IM, the lack of interoperability. Just because I use Telus as my ISP doesn't mean I can't e-mail my Mom in the States who uses a different ISP. E-mail is interoperabe. Doesn't matter what e-mail software she uses we can at least do the basics.
IM vendors need to step up to the plate and work on this. The differentiator between apps and services will be the extra features provided. Hooks into other services or software for example.
I'd certainly not favour seeing one IM player dominate the whole scene, so I hope interoperability is on the horizon.
What's so exclusive about IM? | Perspectives | CNET News.com: “Apparently, not just yet. Yahoo this week blocked Cerulean Studios' Trillian software from communicating with its instant-messaging service. Yahoo defended the decision as a preemptive measure against spammers. But when you consider that there still exist ways to infiltrate messages into Yahoo's network–anyone with decent knowledge of protocols can develop a work-around–the fuller answer tells a different story. “