IM Clients

[Peter Spotts]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 11:49 -0400, Matthew Nicholson wrote:
> Rumor has it, Gtalk will shortly let you talk across
> networks/protocals....
> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:44 -0500, Mark H. Nichols wrote:
> > On Nov 1, 2007, at 10:40 AM, John Dangler wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 11:34 -0400, Martin Walshe wrote:
> > >> And you have your msn account added to Pidgin and are logged into it
> > >> as well as your Yahoo account?
> > > I don't have an msn or any other account.  I have a yahoo account.   
> > > one
> > > of my coworkers has an msn account, another has a hotmail account.
> > >
> > > Do I need to sign up for all of these in order to be able to send msgs
> > > to the other people?
> > 
> > Yes.  You need an account on each protocol (MSN, Y!, AOL, GTalk,  
> > Jabber, et cetera) that you want to use.
> > 
> > <mark />
> > 
> 
> 

Also, you might want to look at OpenWengo. It's a Skype-like
voice-over-internet client with built-in IM capacity for AIM, Yahoo, MSN
and others. The client is open source, although the phone service when
connecting from computer to landline phone carries charges (computer to
computer is free). It also has video capacity for using a webcam...not
everyone's cup of tea, perhaps, but it is another option...

Best,

Pete
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