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  • Created: Jul 9, 2006, 12:24 am
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Instant messaging service that aggregates multiple protocols and SMS text messaging into a single, easy to configure and easy to use network. Allow people to register their numerous IM accounts with the service. They then log in to the single network and are able to transparently communicate with any of their friends on their other contact lists, without worrying about trivial things like which chat protocol each friend might happen to use or trying to configure things like a traditional multi-protocol IM client or Jabber transports. Other needed features: - Ability to manage a server-side contact list for protocols that might not otherwise offer them - Ability to merge multiple contacts into one so your friends only show up once - Ability to add phone numbers to your contact list to send text messages to people (ideally functional regardless of the cell network in question) - Ability to encrypt (PGP or otherwise) conversations over protocols that otherwise transmit in the clear

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t35t0r
t35t0r Posted: July 30, 2006, 10:50 am

It hasn't been done but there are many OSS and not OSS chat apps out there. How is this different from:

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/learn/

Allaryin
Allaryin Posted: August 3, 2006, 12:00 am

Erm. No. The idea is most explicitly NOT Trillian or Gaim or any of the other multi-protocol third party IM clients.

The point is a service that proxies your connections to any number of IM networks from a single connection from each of any number of computers you may log in from. You log in once, the server logs in to all of your IM's for you.

Most IM protocols don't support multiple presence, this would do that by default - on your pre-existing networks. In stead of having to log out when you leave your home computer, you could pop in to chat from any number of locations w/o breaking your connections elsewhere.

Most don't support encryption, this would improve on the problem by encrypting at least half of your conversation traffic - the half between you and our server. That at least saves you from shifty looking guys sniffing wifi traffic at the next table over.

Most multi-protocol clients are complex ugly hacks that are difficult to configure, this would give you a very simple interface that would coincidentally be easy to program clients for - and thus making ports to different operating systems and platforms (flash, cell phones, etc...) much simpler - and making the program smaller.

 

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