Comments on: Comments on 792

Post number 792

mathowie — Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:37:46 -0800

Bantu is the holy grail of instant messaging apps. The people behind it have been working on this for a while, and they're now offering a web-based, java client that can talk to ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo instant message clients. If it were a client side application, I'd probably use it, I'm not a big fan of leaving a browser window open all the time. Another drawback is that it can't reach AIM users.

By: kcchip

kcchip — Mon, 21 Feb 2000 03:05:42 -0800

It would be nice to see a (non web-based) client that could span all the messaging groups. I wonder if AIM is harder to talk to, for technical or non-technical reasons. It seems like AOL doesn't like having its kids play with other instant messagers.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:14:53 -0800

The think your last sentence is the explanation, based on what we've seen from the MSN vs. AOL messengers last summer.

By: hobbes

hobbes — Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:04:53 -0800

Jabber is something in development that seems to have great potential. The documentation is a bit sketchy, though. :-\