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You know that instant messaging (IM) can be totally counterproductive to workflow.
On the other hand, for those Web designers and developers working collaboratively
from different locales—possibly even around the world—there’s nothing
like IM to make life easy.
There are four primary IM clients:
AOL Instant messenger (AIM) can be downloaded at www.aim.com/
(for Windows, Mac, or Linux).
MSN Messenger is downloadable from http://messenger.msn.com/
(for Windows and Mac).
Yahoo! Messenger can be downloaded from http://messenger.yahoo
.com/ (for Windows, Mac, UNIX and UNIX-related systems).
ICQ is available from www.icq.com/ (for Windows and Mac).
All of them are free, and all entertain some level of popularity. The problem is that
they are all proprietary and don’twork with each other (with the exception of AIM
and ICQ, as both are owned by AOL)—meaning that if your collaborator pal in
Moscow uses AIM and you use MSN, you’re not going to be able to chat if you’re
using the proprietary clients.
Fortunately, there are alternative clients available that transcend the proprietary
silliness and do so in impressive ways.
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