When Will Mac Instant Messaging Grow Up?

It seems that everyone is using some form of instant messaging, text messaging, or chat these days. What a horrible waste of time.

Keeping track of who is connected to what service is a pain. How many different instant messaging services can you name? Here at work we have two. There’s more.

The popular IM services have been around awhile. Yahoo. AOL’s AIM. MSN. Jabber. GoogleTalk. There’s a bunch more, some commercial, some open source, some just because. Each has a.... (excerpted).

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