{"id":120,"date":"2005-08-29T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2005-08-29T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T00:06:00","slug":"imminent-im-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Imminent IM wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/nugget\/97081.html\">interesting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drunkenblog.com\/drunkenblog-archives\/000637.html\">speculation<\/a> on the impact of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/talk\/\">Google Talk<\/a> and the reaction of the other IM players.<\/p>\n<p>I am increasingly of the opinion that Google is going the way of the corporation, to the detriment of the user. I agree with <lj user=\"nugget\">: Google missed the point about IM in producing yet another private system. IM is in a parlous state that we would never accept from email. Fair warning to all my IM contacts: I log everything.<\/p>\n<p>I currently use Gaim for my IM needs, and I have accounts on MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber. I do not use gmail, and I won&apos;t be using Google Talk other than if it&apos;s open through my Jabber account on jabber.org. Google&apos;s number one talent is making money from targeted advertising by analysis of data, and they have got very good at it. I don&apos;t intend to have all my mail and IM conversations subjected to marketing analysis.<\/p>\n<p>If the existing IM players sunset their clients and close their networks, you can reach me through Jabber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting speculation on the impact of Google Talk and the reaction of the other IM players. I am increasingly of the opinion that Google is going the way of the corporation, to the detriment of the user. I agree with : Google missed the point about IM in producing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}