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May 03, 2004

Instant

Wired News: Instant-Message Wars Heat Up

Instant Messaging.

For the purpose of this post, I am going to assume that Google launches an IM client called GIMmie (Google Instant Messenger mie)
GIMmie would have the following characteristics:

1) I would designate one computer as "home", on which all my information would be backed up onto. But I could run the client anywhere and not notice that I wasn't at "home"...

2) It would search the contact lists of Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Mozilla, and whatever else people use to store their contacts, and automatically add anyone there who is a GIMmie client. This way I can save myself the bothersome manual adding that I have to do with AOL and Yahoo! Messengers...

3) It would, (much like MSN messenger already does) have a "front" screen with just my contacts. On the side would be a set of tabs: One for news, one for weather one for stocks, one for search, and one for RSS (different than "news" in that I would be able to manually add feeds to the RSS, but not to the News, which would just be Google.news.com.) and one for E-mail...

4) The Email would check (on a basis I set for myself) my POP mail, Hotmail, Gmail, and whatever else you people use...

5) The RSS would be able to read RSS 1.0, 0.9, 2.0, ATOM, and whatever else is out there...

6) A history of all my previous conversations.

7) The internet knows where I am physically. It would use that information to give me weather and traffic without my having to tell it where I am. But it would give me the option of changing that if it makes a mistake...

That's all I can think of right now. Any ideas?

Posted by Andrew at May 3, 2004 12:44 AM

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Posted by: Jason at June 25, 2004 02:40 AM