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November, 2004




Inbox had about 50 users (IT staff supporting email) and 350 vendors attending. Like most events nowadays, it had a hard time attracting users. There were about 30 booths, and most booths were empty most of the time. Most vendors felt that with hindsight, taking a booth wasn’t worthwhile. It was a useful place to rub shoulders with others in the industry, and for vendors to discuss doing business together.

Link: AOL Adds Presence to Outlook.

It would appear from this news item that integration between IM and email is closer than we might think…

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730724,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

"In addition, the company plans to integrate the mail offerings directly on the ICQ instant messenger client to offer one-click access to mailboxes. "

http://company.icq.com/info/press-rel.html

Does AOL’s decision to offer an email product with ICQ branding predict we’ll see tighter integration between instant messaging and electronic mail services?  From what we can see ICQMail doesn’t offer anything in the way of technical integration - just brand leverage - but nevertheless we keep wondering when IM is going to spawn an inbox of it’s own…

This is the body of my first posting…


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