Industries thrive when there is just one standard to adopt. E-mail has become much more pervasive because of the SMTP protocol; the video industry grew quickly because VHS won out over beta; IBM ...

Despite having heard proposals for three instant messaging (IM) standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) appears likely to move toward a way to make different IM systems work together ...

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Between Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Gmail and a whole slew of instant messaging protocols, the Internet has become a fragmented mess where you must constantly check for updates and shuttle between ...