Could integrations with other social services come next, or the ability to chat through other IM services like Google or AIM?
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Anything for managing a conversation, like IM or Twitter, which is a big omission.
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Alongside the growth of social networks, use of communications tools like IM and webmail applications continued to grow at a significant rate.
"We feel like IM is the communication medium of choice for the kid generation, " says Frazier Miller, director of product management for Yahoo Messenger.
Email is good at some things that IM is not, like composing a long, thoughtful reply, writing poetry or essays, or really anything where you need more than the granularity of a single line of text in which to compose your thoughts.
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Glitches, like the recent IM bug and the aforementioned service outages, do not make its users love it less.
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Well, you know, I mean, Im a huge fan of old-fashioned country music, like Kitty Wells and that sort of thing, but Im not sure why I get pigeonholed into country music because I have always had a very energetic rock band.
So could toys like Mattel's IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.
Other failings like the lack of MMS, IM chat and video recording are even more mysterious.
Like the growth of social applications alongside IM, more widespread access to better tools leads to more time spent being interactive online.
Chorus.im is different because it works through a mobile browser like Safari, Opera or Firefox.
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They might point out that email-compatible systems like PGP provide a much better proof of identity than an IM handle.
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Since the Cingular network is so fast (and the Causerie IM client can be set to check for messages as frequently as you like) he's able to receive messages from work in near-real time.
Much of that support went to big producers of capital goods like Boeing and General Electric, but the vast majority of Ex-Im Bank transactions are aimed at small and medium-size exporters.
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So could toys like Mattel (nyse: MAT - news - people )'s IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.
With instant messaging gaining in popularity, companies would like to find a way to initiate casual conversations about their products and services within the IM chat boxes.
But I do think that places where email can be annoying - like lots of tiny little notification emails and so forth - may well end up migrating to IM, where they belong.
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