For some of us old fogies who grew up using bulletin boards and forums on closed online services, online chat has always held a special allure. Remember, it was chatting that proved to be the killer application for AOL. Yet somehow the chat phenomenon didnt quite translate as well on the open web, mostly because the implementations were kludgy and the software was too slow.
Still, instant messaging and lately Twitter-styled short messages have only become more popular. At the other extreme, we ....
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