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Facebook Acquiring IM Service?

I take one weekend off the Internet, and everything goes crazy. Can’t you people get on without me?

Baidu Readies Instant Messaging Service

People who are counting the ways in which Baidu has beaten Google may soon have to make one more tally mark; reports state that the Chinese giant is testing an instant messaging service.

AIM Opens Real-Time IM Feature

Through work with Galludet University and the University of Wisconsin's Trace Center, AOL crafted a new deafness-friendly feature for AIM.

Teens Use IMs To Avoid Awkward Conversations

A new Associated Press-AOL Instant Messaging Trends Survey released today finds that forty-three percent of teen IM users have used instant messaging to say something they would not say to someone in person.

Microsoft Confirms New Messenger for Mac

Microsoft has confirmed that a new version of its Messenger instant messaging software will ship with and when Mac Office 2008 hits stores. While we don’t know anything about features, or even if it’ll be named Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger (presumably the new name, though), at least Mac fans are getting a new version.

Is IM coming to Facebook?

Sam Sethi at Blognation UK has a scoop: apparently, he got a preview of a new instant messaging app for Facebook — and according to his description, it doesn’t require you to download or install anything, or to register, as many Facebook apps do. You just sign in and use it. At the risk of sounding like a Facebook fan-boy, I think this could be huge.

Google Addresses IM Etiquette

We’ve come to think of Googlers as cool people, as smart people, and above all, as tech-savvy people.  I’m not here to challenge that perception, but a new post on the Official Google Australia Blog implies that Google’s employees deal with some of the same crap as the rest of us.  The topic of the post?  IM etiquette.

Meebo, Google Talk Gaining On AIM, MSN

Though they have a long way to go (a really long way), instant messaging services that offer chat or multimedia chat functionalities are growing the fastest among IM providers, according to new numbers from Nielsen//NetRatings.

MySpace Launches Beta Instant Messaging

MySpace has officially announced the beta launch of their instant messaging service, MySpaceIM.

MySpace China To Launch IM Service

MySpace may soon launch a new instant messaging service, but to use it, you’ll probably have to watch what you say.  And you may have to speak Chinese, as well - it’s MySpace China that plans to do this deed. Instant Messaging For Myspace According to a Reuters article, “News Corp.-invested MySpace China aims to launch an online messaging service ‘as soon as possible,’ its CEO said on Wednesday, as the venture fights for a bigger share of the world’s second-largest Internet market.”