WebToIM.com - Bringing Web Services To Your IM

A service that goes by a suitable name, Web To IM aims to bring some of the functionalities we all ready associate with instant messaging services to the ones inherent to web browsers and vice-versa. As the team responsible for it explains, one of the main disadvantages of a browser is that the presence of the user is not as prolonged or at least as imminent as that maintained when employing an IM tool.





The project is taking off, and the first development that has materialized is an “Answers” service that (for the time being) is available only to Gmail users. Support both for Yahoo and MSN Messenger is underway.

This Answers service uses the True Knowledge API and lets anybody pose questions in the hope of finding an instant answer. Useful when you have to write an essay and you need very specific information such as dates and so forth, as immediacy is what characterizes IM from the word go.

Hopefully, the other messaging systems that were mentioned above will be supported in due time. It will also be interesting to see which other telecommunication developments are forthcoming from the team behind this solution, as this one is quite useful in itself.