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Summary: There are many methods of chatting on the Internet, including AIM and services offered by Yahoo!, Google and ICQ. Learn about company blocks on Internet chat services with help from an IT systems administrator in this free video on Internet chat.
Joe Supple currently works as an IT systems administrator for the EPA. Supple has been a security engineer and a programmer, and he holds degrees from the University of Waterloo, the...read more
"There's various instant messaging protocols that can be used on the Internet. It really depends on what people have signed up for. I believe that AOL instant messaging -- or AIM, as it's short -- was probably one of the first ones, but Yahoo has one, MSN, which was used for Hotmail or MSN. Gmail for Google Mail. ICQ, which is the very old protocol of ICQ. And MySpace, even. Twitter. All of these are different ways of contacting people through the Internet. There are a lot of times, those instant messaging chats use a particular port and that may get blocked from a particular location where you're at. Companies really don't want you wasting their bandwidth doing that. You can use various redirectors like Meebo, M-E-E-B-O.com, and what you can do there is it just becomes a Web page that signs in to a number of the other chat services so that you can sign in there and it will work for MSN, Yahoo, AIM. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for Gmail. It doesn't work for ICQ. It doesn't work for Twitter. But that's one of the ways around blocks that your company may end up having."
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