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Over the past several years, social networking , web 2.0, etc have been the hot words. So will this continue in 2008? How will it change? There is no doubt that social networking will increase its popularity as they continue to integrate dynamic and interactive features, but I wanted to get an idea from you all what you think those interactive features will be? One area I have been interested in is instant messaging. Many startups have provided unique services in this space and have already started to integrate them with social networks. Where do you see instant messaging going in 2008? Will AOL, MSN, Yahoo, GTalk develop new rich features for their platform, or will most of the features help to embed them into the social web? While discussing instant messaging, where do you all see advertising via instant messaging going? | |||||||
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January 7th I think IM should be like the telephone. Every IM system should be compatible with the others. Imagine if you couldn't call someone with a sprint account from your AT&T phone?
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January 6th I use gtalk and Yahoo! for work. Using ADIUM on my MAC, i can use both at the same time.
makes it easy to ask people in the office quick questions or talk to my fiance all day. I know people who use the YAHOO! IM are subjected to ads....They should have the ads that show be relevant to the content of the conversation. If the people are talking about pizza ....and ad for pizza should appear. Reply
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January 6th Thanks Dan,
I have also thought about tailoring ads on instant message clients to the content of the conversation, have you seen any evidence of this? I am curious to know how you feel about email vs instant messaging? Since AIM and MSN came out, I feel that email is too slow. What do you think? Do you ever think IM and email will become one? Reply
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January 6th I personally like IM and email separate. They're two unique forms of online communication. Sometimes you don't want to respond instantly, sometimes you do.
As far as advertising on email and IM: They are two solutions that very invasive Ad's are NOT what users want. I spend so much time inside both applications I absolutely do NOT want to see invasive ad's. If there are too many, I will leave the app and find one that is clean of ad's. Reply
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January 6th I have just gotten into meebo. I really hate using one platform that doesnt allow me to talk to other users on other platforms. Meebo is great for that.
As far as social media integration. I have not come across any site that integrates IM'ing really at all. I kind of like it being a separate entity. I would highly recommend Twitter Scott, it is taking IM'ing to a different level. Imagine all your IM buddies able to see all your IM's at the same time. It creates a very interesting mix. Reply
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