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Fortunately somebody is working on it. A handful of companies, notably twin goliaths Microsoft and Yahoo, have formed a coalition called IMUnified to attack the problem. Unfortunately AOL, which between ICQ and AIM controls 80% of the market, isn't part of the gang. That's what has the FCC's regulatory knickers in a knot...
This is all assuming the person on the other end is using the same IM program you are--and therein lies the rub. AOL, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo all have IM programs, but most don't talk to one another; if I use AOL Instant Messenger, and you use MSN Messenger, for example, we're out of luck. Imagine if two people using different phone companies couldn't call each other. That's the current state of instant messaging...
Meanwhile, if you want to make sure everybody can reach you via IM, you will have to keep several IM programs running at once; you can also try a program called Odigo www.odigo.com) which connects to AIM, Yahoo and ICQ through a clever bit of hackery, though it's a hassle to use. Or you can do what I do: give up and just use AIM, because my friends...
...stock? Down from a 52-week high of $31.50 to about 20[cents]. Some folks have been taking perverse pleasure in seeing the dotcoms crash and burn. "Is anyone else morbidly watching this stock like you stare at a car wreck when driving by?" a posting on Yahoo's finance message board asked last week. But watching economic distress has suddenly become a lot less...
...There were some glad tidings. Yahoo announced Tuesday its online sales had doubled from 1999, and a Goldman Sachs study found that to be about the norm in a $10 billion season for dot-commerce. But that about does it for retail celebrations. Federated Department Stores Inc., of Macy's and Bloomingdale's fame, said December sales would fall short of its original forecasts, and the forecasts weren't that high to start with. Specialty stores like Gap and Banana Republic are disappointed. And if you want to know what PC sales have been like, check the NASDAQ...