bigblueball.com— What will happen in 2007 in the realm of instant messaging, VoIP and chat. A collection of predictions from various analysts.
Jan 6, 2007View in Crawl 4
"Phones and software for mobile devices will make VoIP accessible. Your mom still won't know that VoIP means Voice over IP (or what that means), but the proliferation of devices made for Skype, WLM, and Yahoo voice chat will make VoIP easier and more common. These phones were all over CES last January, and now the prices are reasonable, and wireless access points in the home commonplace. It'll be a hot gift next Christmas."Welcome to 3 years ago..I am using Skype for my PocketPC since 2005 (but it's been there for longer than that).
I predict that a cross-platform Free Software replacement for Ventrilo/Teamspeak will emerge because the demand is there and the appropriate libraries to make such a thing easily are there.Oh and because I know some people personally brainstorming and already starting to write it so yeah, I predict this s**t and as long as one of them doesn't get a girlfriend or something gay like that again it should ahppen.
Define "good." A lot of people like Google Talk for it's simplicity, although if you're friends aren't using it, it won't help much. It's also gained popularity among Gmail users, because it integrates with Google Chat and saves your IM logs in your Gmail inbox (if you configure it to save them). Personally, I like it for all of those reasons, but I still end up using other IM networks just to reach all my contacts. I can't force them to switch.Other people are put-off by the fact that Google Talk doesn't have video or saccharine-sweet smileys. Meh.
>Gtalk is so similiar to Jabber in fact, that if you have Trillian, you use Jabber to connect to GTalk...Gtalk IS jabber. It just forces SSL on a certain port.
bigblueballJan 7, 2007Submitter
Actually, read the article and you'll see that Trillian Astra web edition was indeed mentioned. And yes, it looks fricken awesome!
radu79Jan 7, 2007
"Phones and software for mobile devices will make VoIP accessible. Your mom still won't know that VoIP means Voice over IP (or what that means), but the proliferation of devices made for Skype, WLM, and Yahoo voice chat will make VoIP easier and more common. These phones were all over CES last January, and now the prices are reasonable, and wireless access points in the home commonplace. It'll be a hot gift next Christmas."Welcome to 3 years ago..I am using Skype for my PocketPC since 2005 (but it's been there for longer than that).
jonforthewinJan 7, 2007
I predict that a cross-platform Free Software replacement for Ventrilo/Teamspeak will emerge because the demand is there and the appropriate libraries to make such a thing easily are there.Oh and because I know some people personally brainstorming and already starting to write it so yeah, I predict this s**t and as long as one of them doesn't get a girlfriend or something gay like that again it should ahppen.
Closed AccountJan 7, 2007
For the Linux side of things theres going to be a lot of interesting stuff done with the Telepathy project. Ubuntu looks like it will be using Telepathy backend with Tapioca Client in Feisty.<a class="user" href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/">http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/</a><a class="user" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Telepathy">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Telepathy</a><a class="user" href="http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Tapioca">http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Tapioca</a><a class="user" href="http://tapioca-project.blogspot.com/">http://tapioca-project.blogspot.com/</a>
bigblueballJan 7, 2007Submitter
Define "good." A lot of people like Google Talk for it's simplicity, although if you're friends aren't using it, it won't help much. It's also gained popularity among Gmail users, because it integrates with Google Chat and saves your IM logs in your Gmail inbox (if you configure it to save them). Personally, I like it for all of those reasons, but I still end up using other IM networks just to reach all my contacts. I can't force them to switch.Other people are put-off by the fact that Google Talk doesn't have video or saccharine-sweet smileys. Meh.
t3hxJan 8, 2007
>Gtalk is so similiar to Jabber in fact, that if you have Trillian, you use Jabber to connect to GTalk...Gtalk IS jabber. It just forces SSL on a certain port.
joevillJan 8, 2007
I hear ya! I stopped using ICQ because it became bloatware