Do You Know The Concept of Instant Messaging (IM)?

Do You Know The Concept of Instant Messaging (IM)? If You Want to know so see the following Information......!!

Instant messaging (IM) allows two or more people to contact each other via direct, live communication. To use instant messaging, you register with an instant messaging server and then specify a list of Friends. Whenever you connect to the Internet, special software informs your messaging server that you are online. In response, the server will notify you if any of your friends are online. At the same time, it notifies your friends that your friends are online. You can then send messages directly back and forth to one another. Most instant messaging programs also include video conferencing features, file sharing, and remote assistance. Many businesses routinely use these instant messaging features.


The Most widely used instant messaging services are Rediff BOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, one limitation, however, is that many instant messaging services do not support communication with other services. For example, at the time of this writing,  a user registered with yahoo cannot use yahoo’s instant messenger to communicate with a user registered with Rediff BOL. Recently, however, some software companies have started providing universal instant messenger programs that overcome this limitation. For example, Gain Odigo, and Trillian provide instant messaging services that do
support communication with other services.