[Air-l] What is Instant Messaging

[elijah wright]

> While the patent office often gets things wrong (e.g. the hoo ha about
> Amazon.com's one click patent) this approval does suggest that
> IM=(online awareness + buddy list + over TCP/IP protocal + messaging)
> and is something relatively new.

maybe MIT should sue AOL.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/trailing1002.asp

:)

~elijah