June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 43m
English
This chapter provides an in-depth exploration of IM technologies, shows how they work, and discusses the inherent risks and limitations in the current popular implementations.
Beyond E-Mail introduces messaging with a familiar application.
The section explains how and why e-mail stopped being p2p for the majority of users, instead replaced by other forms of p2p with more immediacy—Net-Babble, or instant messaging.
Messaging Technologies provides a technology background to IM.
Some IM Concepts are defined and explained, the terms of which are central to later analysis throughout the book. ICQ—IM for the Masses provides some historical background to popular IM.
ICQ and AIM provides a core examination of ICQ technology.
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