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Partha SarathyWeb 2.0 Professional
An Instant messenger
– communication between two or more people
Past Present Future
– IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
– AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
– Yahoo Messenger , MSN, GoogleTalk
Features
• Chatting, sending message• save a conversation • Download and start• Quick exchange of information.• Transfer up to 4GB
Author of
The program was originally written on or before 1999.
The number of Pidgin users was estimated to be over 3 million in 2007M
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Communicate with different protocols
ALL IN ONE AIM, IRC,
MSN, Google Talk, My Space, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Jabber,etc
When do you Use Pidgin?
consolidate IM clientsfile transferMulti platform compatibilityContact list
When to Not Use Pidgin?
Advanced features such as Video and Voice services
Short installations…
Installation Guidelines (Windows XP):
The following steps are used to install the product
Download the program from: http://pidgin.im/download/
Click on the program icon: Select a language:
Advantages All-in-one messaging solution Available for all major operating
systems Supports tabbing
Occupies less space.
DISADVANTAGE
Audio/Video not supported
Architecture
Built upon a backend library called libPurple
Lib is implemented by many other Open Source clients including Adium on Mac OS X, and Meebo, a web based client
Makes use of open source Aspell Dictionaries to allow for spell and grammar checking
Competing OSS Packages/Frameworks
There are many other competing clients that make use of libPurple
There are also competing multi-protocol frameworks/clients, such as Miranda, Kopete and Trillian
Naturally, the official clients for each of the protocols compete with Pidgin as well
Windows Live Messenger Yahoo! Messenger Etc.
Licensing Both Pidgin and libPurple are released
under GPL Ensures that any potential future
modifications are also free
Conclusion libPurple is fairly mature and stable, given
that it is implemented by many different clients.
Each client has its own small community of developers, and generally, they all help out with libPurple as well
Pidgin itself includes mailing lists, merchandising, and an active plugin development community
If you use multiple protocols, use Pidgin!
References/Links SourceForge.net. 2008. Pidgen
[Online] Available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/ [accessed 22 September 2008]
Pidgen.im. 2008. Pidgen [Online] Available from http://pidgin.im/ [accessed 22 September 2008]
Multiprotocol_instant_messaging_application
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaim http://www.pidgin.im/about/
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