The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next

Re:The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is Wha... by joepestro on Friday May 01, 2009 @05:42PM (#589205)

The idea of real time communication is similar to IRC, but remember that it's just a protocol. The big difference here is what you can do with how that data is presented to users.

There are some really neat things you can do with HTTP and a browser that IRC clients lack. The whole rendering a page with text, images, and markup together adds a lot to the experience that you just don't get with IRC. Great job friendfeed - it looks like this brings together the strengths of each.

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Re:The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is Wha... by pyr3 on Saturday May 02, 2009 @04:15AM (#589673)

Look at Adium (which is IM, but I don't think IRC) and Colloquy (IRC and SILC) on OSX. They output chat to XML which is then 'themed' with XSLT into HTML to display in a Webkit frame.

It sounds really convoluted, but it's presented in HTML form. and you can use images etc.

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Re:The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is Wha... by mariorz on Friday May 01, 2009 @05:50PM (#589215)

mibbit's been experimenting a lot in this area directly. You should check it out.

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