WhatHelps?
Provides topical hosting services for your community homepage, community building tools (like chat, board and discussion lists) and member tools (like member websites, webmail and instant messaging).

RFC 2778
A Model for Presence and Instant Messaging. M. Day, J. Rosenberg, H. Sugano. February 2000.

PKIChat Secure Instant Messaging
Secure instant messaging using auto generated public/private key pairs.

Tijit for Windows 95/98/Me
Creates Virtual Private Networks (VPN's), enables file sharing, chatting, and instant messaging. NT/2000 version is also available.

FlashDeli
Instant messaging system for LAN or Intranet. Ability to exchange with messages with colleagues and neighbors.

ICQ
Official site for the instant-messaging and chat software.

IM Central
See our online database and contribute to a free library of creative AIM instant messaging away messages and profiles.

Gracebyte Software
Creators of CoolCD Studio; CDDB enabled CD player, Network Assistant; instant messaging software for the network or intranet environment and OpenGL screen savers.

Aim News
All the latest news in instant messaging.

Endogy
Endogy provides Instant Messaging software and consulting services for the improvement of team workflow.

Kopete
A flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant messaging system designed as a plugin-based system.

mJabber
Instant messaging client for mobile phones, PDAs or other wireless devices.

IM-Protector
Software for monitoring children's instant messaging usage on services such as Yahoo, AOL and MSN.

Cloudgate Ltd.
Intelligent, two-way customer communication platform allows companies to create services and marketing campaigns that coordinate multiple channels, including SMS/MMS, email, audio (IVR), instant messaging (IM), and direct mail.

Security Software
Cyber Sentinel and Predator Guard are programs that monitor, filter and block pornography, sexually explicit and predatory computer traffic in the internet, e-mail, instant messaging, chat, attachments and any Windows application.

Chat Blazer Messenger
Provides Instant Messaging solution with the optional Messenger Module that can be plugged into the Enterprise server

Gabber: The GNOME Jabber Client
Jabber is an Open Source instant messaging system which can communicate with many other systems, including ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, and even IRC. Gabber is one of many Jabber clients.

Taking Care of The A-Team
A community for chatting, instant messaging and conversation about the A-Team.

Cordant, Inc.
Offering IMScribe for comprehensive logging, archiving, and reviewing of Exchange 2000 Instant Messaging contents.

XMLResources.com
Products and tools, information, articles, and services. Free users forums, email, instant messaging and chat.

The Pork
Members can access chat rooms, discussion boards, personals, and instant messaging.

NWSend
Native instant messaging software for Novell NetWare.

jhcore productions
PHP-based multimedia content handling. Waste is an encrypted instant messaging and file sharing application.

Communities.com
Provides chat rooms, communities, forums, instant messaging, detailed photo profiles, photo galleries, and photo ratings. Search members by age, sex, location, and interests.

DarkMods
Includes development, downloads, and demonstrations of instant messaging, redirection, cosmetic and administration scripts, plus a template.

MSN Messenger Service
Internet Messaging service that provides instant contact with the greatest number of Internet users and works with your favorite communication tools.

Command Code
SpyShield PGP encryption plug-in for instant messaging, including MSN Messenger Service. Site provides information about security, PGP encryption, and related technologies.

Greencomputer Innovation -- Office Elf Server Appliance
GCI has developed a low-cost Internet Appliance for businesses that gives everyone email and Internet access, allows centralized printer sharing, file access, instant messaging and numerous other features all in one small 10x10 inch green cube. It takes less than 10 minutes to install and get up and running. We are selling our product to small businesses through direct sales, an e-commerce website and resellers.

GICQ
An ICQ-compatible instant messaging client for Unix systems.

Instant Messaging Age Software Inc.
Provides capabilities that corporations use to turn simple IM communication platforms into productive and secure business tools

QuickFlash
Instant messaging software for business. Features include call screening, telephone messages, text sticky notes, application screen capture and annotation. By The ARM Group.

Max
Provides a service to filter a range of online activities including web, chat, email, instant messaging and file-sharing.

JabberFoX
An open source instant messaging system fully based on XML.

CenterSpan Communications Corporation
Develops and markets internet software products based on three cutting-edge technologies developed for instant voice and text messaging and collaborative information sharing between users on different computers. (Nasdaq: CSCC).

CryptoHeaven
Premium secure instant messaging, chat, online data storage, file sharing and email using 256 bit encryption. Free download offering 2MB of storage. Upgrades of storage and bandwidth are available.

Creative Breakthrough, Inc.
Real time S&P day trading advice via instant messaging. Trading systems for Omega Research software.

KMerlin
An IM (instant messaging) client for the MSN messenger network.

Pink Notes Plus(tm)
Fully integrated office instant messaging system for local networks, fully customizable to fit any company's needs of getting notes and messages from one office to another. [Win 95/98/Me/NT]

Arch Wireless
Offers wireless e-mail, instant text messaging and mobile Internet access.

LAN Messenger
Instant LAN messaging for the office - communications and management applications and software.

Pan Historia
A role play site for interactive creative fiction writing. Free basic membership for all genres. Instant messaging, home pages.

imov Messenger
A Windows CE client for the Jabber instant messaging system.

Charmed
A club that features image galleries, discussions, reviews, schedules, polls, links, sound files, instant messaging and chat room.

Darkstone Interest Group
An ICQ instant messaging group.

DataMate Global Communications
Secure corporate instant messaging solutions offering customizable features such as fast responses and automatic replies. Suitable for the small office to the large organization

Mac Instant messaging software for LAN
MacPopUp is a program that allows Mac users to exchange instant messages with other users on any local area network (LAN).

Integrity Messenger
Messaging service that provides instant contact with Internet users, language filtered and family safe.

Chatopus for Palm OS
Chatopus is a Jabber client for instant messaging (IM) on the Palm OS platform.

NetZero
Provides dial-up access in the United States and in Canada. Accounts include email, webmail, and instant messaging compatibility.

ClipDoc
A free graphical peer to peer network for LANs and the Internet, featuring graphical instant-messaging, file-sharing, net meetings, forums, and e-mails.

Convea Business Application
Open source Intranet solution with 19 web based applications including email, calendar, knowledge base, and instant messaging. Free online demo and download available.

Netwin Software Corporation
E-mail, news, Web mail, FTP, and instant messaging products. Free trial versions, pricing details, support pages including full text manuals.

Kidsnet
Software allows configurable access to hand selected child-safe internet sites. Restricts access to internet content, E-mail, chat rooms and instant messaging.

iMessenger.com
Offers communications and instant messaging tool and program for small to medium web sites.

PalaceChat
Unique visual instant messaging client. User assumes an avatar and moves around palace "rooms" interacting with other users.

Fire
A multi-protocol IM client for OS X; supports the six most popular instant messaging services.

All My Socks Are Dirdy
A drop point for collage work with commentary by the artist and links to contact the author through email or instant messaging.

Motime
Hosted weblog community with integrated instant messaging for real-time update alerts and member-2-member chats.

AOL pulls MP3 service, finds messaging Napsterized
List of articles relating to the removal of AOL's music search engine, and the addition of a Napster-like search facility into AOL's instant messenger. [News.com]

Tipic instant messaging platform
TIMP is a commercial Jabber server offering integration to LDAP / Active directory and MS Exchange.

Togabi
San Diego, California, based company specializes push-to-talk, voice instant messaging, and wireless chat over a packet-based network.

DBabble Chat Server
Chat, discussion, and secure instant messaging server accessible via web browser and Windows client.

BrowserG!
Integrates functionalities such as file sharing and instant messaging in one environment.

Duisoft
Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) applications all featuring a dialog user interface and instant broadcast and response capabilities - providing means to extend enterprise applications to the mobile workforce and mobile consumer.

Parkwest Internet Technologies Inc
Offer a range of off-the-shelf solutions for internet dating, real estate management, instant messaging and surveying. [Commercial]

Real-Time Conferencing
Comprehensive, independent guide to conferencing services, including internet e-conferencing, data conferencing, video conferencing, telephone conferencing, instant messaging, chat, and VoIP

IMlogic
Provides solutions for archiving, querying and reporting on Instant Messaging

BlueTie Inc.
Suite of web-based applications including calendar, e-mail, instant messaging, and file cabinet. Designed for business users.

Jephyr Instant Messaging System
Protocol specification for client-server instant messaging with a Java implementation.

Datatel Call Announcing Software
DataTel uses secure Instant Messaging to enable discrete, cost-effective and instantaneous Call Announcing in the security of your own network.

PresenceWorks
Tool for integrating instant messaging client capabilities into business software.

Kit AIM Client
A Messaging client for the AOL Instant Messenger.

Pexit
Pexit is a platform independant multiprotocol instant messaging and chat client. Pexit's many features include whiteboards, chat rooms, chat history and alerts.

The Poker Jokers
Membership group where players can form their own leagues. Free forum and instant messaging.

Network Privacy, Inc.
Global provider of secure communications software for email, instant messaging, audio (VOIP), video FTP and HTTP. Software is seamless to end users, uses PKI encryption technology, automatic key exchange and is PGP-compatible.

JuICQ
A directory of online journalers and diarists who use ICQ for instant messaging.

NetSender
An instant messaging system for Microsoft networks. (Visual Basic) [Windows NT/2000/XP]

Geometric Software Solution Co. Ltd
Provides solutions for mechanical design, manufacturing and industrial markets, as well as software for nesting, feature recognition, part searching, collaboration and instant messaging.

Gaim News
News about this open-source instant messaging client.

kXIcq
The KDE ICQ Client, an Instant messaging tool compatible with (and relying on) ICQ.

QUIK Computing
Offers Ace Operator, a feature-rich web-based call-center solution using instant messaging. A free version of the software is available.

e-Math Tutor
Providing mathematics tutoring via e-mail, instant messaging, and telephone. (In person, Northern Colorado only).

Merak Instant Messaging Server
A commercial Jabber server, that has been written without using already available source. The server can be integrated in to the Merak mail server.

Bantu
Offers a web-based solution to instant messaging that lets you talk to people with the AOL, MSN, YAHOO, and ICQ messangers.

Sareen PLC
Contact management, individual and group calendar, task and project management, and email and instant messaging are combined producing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution.

LionKnight Instant Messaging Suite
Lets users send and receive Messages from MSN Messenger and also lets users send Files, String messages or Binary messages between applications in different machines or the same machine. [Controls, Shareware]

WEBB Interactive Services Inc.
Offers instant messaging software. (Nasdaq: WEBB).

MSGBox
Based in the UK with members all over the world. Chat, view pictures and information about our other members. Include Instant Messaging to both online and offline users. Must register.

Instant Messaging Planet: Mobile Spam Banned in Calif.
Governor Gray Davis signs a bill that will prohibit the sending of spam to mobile phones and pagers starting next year.

Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Hardware proxy appliances for corporate networks offering web caching, virus scanning, content filtering, instant messaging control and bandwidth management.

WiredRed Software
Provider of e/pop, an enterprise-ready suite of real time communications and instant messaging software for small to large sized businesses.

Easy Mess
Web-based instant messaging service. It requires no download. It can be embedded on web sites. Supports groups and communities.

AltME
Secure peer-to-peer instant messaging and application sharing system made with REBOL.

CommunityPeople.net
Hosting services for online community facilities such as member profiles, events, instant messaging, online chat, message forums, email discussion groups and online polls.

Instant Messaging Personalities
IMPService is a software add on for Windows Messenger. It adds personality, animated emoticons and voice that can be delivered with your Instant Messages, to your contacts.

Ignite Freiburg
A german application service provider, offering Jabber/XMPP based instant messaging solutions.

MSNBC - Spammers now clogging blogs, IM
Spam has never been limited to e-mail. But now, commercial pitches are increasingly popping up in online chats, instant messages, cell phones with text messaging and weblog comments.

ICQ
instant messaging

my world vox
Offer a software that provides instant messaging and voicemail and a USB mobile phone.

VyPRESS Research Homepage
Software for direct instant messaging and chatting in LAN (instead WinPopup), intranet and Internet. Powerful and easy to use.

iSpQ VideoChat
Provides videochat, voice, video, and text instant messaging.

Sigaba
Secure e-mail, instant messaging and document transmission. Product details, news, customer portfolio, support options and contact information.

Nextel Partners, Inc.
Holding company with subsidiaries which provide wireless communications services, including cellular telephone service, two-way dispatch with instant conferencing capabilities and paging and alphanumeric short messaging service. (Nasdaq: NXTP).

VyPRESS Research
Instant messaging and real-time chatting software for LANs (instead standard WinPopup), corporate WANs and intranets. Powerful and easy to use messaging services.

Convea
Open source intranet solution with many web based applications including email, calendar, knowledge base, and instant messaging. Free online demonstration and download available.

Golden Bits Software
noteNOW is a smart network messaging system that enables efficient instant broadcasting of messages to all or specific groups of network users. Requirements, Windows NT/2000, noteNOW Desktop.

Ariolic Software
Qualitative utilities for instant messaging. NTPager - network messaging system, NetSend 9x - console program for sending network messages on Windows 9x, PopupMe - unique server for receiving network messages on Windows 9x.

RFC 2779
Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements. M. Day, S. Aggarwal, G. Mohr, J. Vincent. February 2000.

JabberFoX
A Jabber client for Mac OS X. An open source instant messaging system fully based on XML.