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MySpace and MTV have announced the first of a series of Presidential Candidate Dialogues, to take place at the University of New Hampshire on Thursday, September 27th at 12:00 pm ET. This first event features candidate John Edwards, and is unique in that audience members can submit questions in real-time via MySpaceIM.
MySpace claims that MySpaceIM is “the world’s fastest-growing instant messaging client.”
The event will be broadcast live at both MySpaceTV.com and MTV.com.
Many of the other candidates are also booked for future dialogues using the same format.
MySpaceIM is the world’s fastest growing IM client? Sounds like someone’s been hitting the crack pipe. The only possible way that could be true is if they claim that MySpace users who clicked an IM link in MySpace. I bet most of them don’t even know what they did, or consider themselves really “users” of MySpace’s crappy, proprietary IM client.
@Fanatic 223117 wrote:
I bet most of them don’t even know what they did, or consider themselves really “users” of MySpace’s crappy, proprietary IM client.
Since when do IM networks release their IM clients without a proprietary license? Except for IRC, SILC, and Jabber (maybe i missed some?) NOBODY releases IM clients without proprietary licenses. The only time an IM network released specifications for one of its protocols was when AIM/AOL GPL’d TOC1.0 (AIMs less powerful protocol when compared to OSCAR). Recently AOL/AIM updated the TOC protocol and chose not to release the specifications under GPL.
Pidgin, in its most recent release, supports MySpaceIM. you are not forced to use the ‘official client’ if you do not wish to.
I don’t think the issue is whether the network is open or proprietary, but why MySpace chose to setup “yet another” instant messaging network, rather than reaching an agreement with one of the other existing IM networks. It gets tiring to have to join all the various networks to stay in touch with all my friends, family and associates.
@Jeff 223159 wrote:
It gets tiring to have to join all the various networks to stay in touch with all my friends, family and associates.
I don’t think it’s too much of a inconvenience. Multi-protocol clients exist that make connection to multiple networks a breeze (It doesn’t take more than minutes to create an account). Trillian, Meebo, Pidgin, MirandaIM all allow you to connect to many networks. BBB also has written guides on how to connect to many networks using your Gtalk client and Jabber transports.
NewsCorp/Myspace created their own IM network because they didn’t want to deal with other competing corporations (Although, it probably would have been a good idea to use an open network instead of writing their own). AIM/Yahoo!/Windows Live (the large IM networks) have social networks (or sites that look/seem/feel like social networking sites) of their own. If Myspace contacted these companies to try to make a deal they’d laugh in their faces.
BBB started their own IRC server for this website. You obviously didn’t have to do this. There are thousands (or ten big ones) of IRC Networks that would have been happy to host your channel for you. They are also better able to handle large amounts of traffic and hostile (or malicious) users.
As long as humans have existed competition has also existed. The Internet allows you to bypass some this competition by using all (or a lot) IM networks at once using multi-protocol IM clients. I’m sure back-in-the-day people complained about the many nation states that had strict borders. How, because of these states, people couldn’t contact their friends and family. Now people are able to (at least as long as networks remain neutral) talk to others on all IM networks without being FORCED to use only one network.
I’m not trying to support Myspace. In fact I hate social networking sites in general.
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