technology:instant messaging

How to Use Live Chat to Capture More Leads
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-use-live-chat-to-capture-more-leads-4949db34651b?source=rss----3a

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Image from Rawpixel.comMuch has been said about how live chat can be a powerful tool for sales. But more specifically, how can live chat help to companies to generate more leads?No matter how well business is going — a steady and growing influx of leads is essential to generate more sales and scale your business. Fortunately, companies of all sizes can benefit from the latest advances in #messaging technology to help keep those leads coming.Live chat is one of these valuable resources: it gives you an instant messaging platform for engaging with potential customers on your website, helping you to shorten the sales funnel and qualify leads instantly.Businesses can connect with visitors to quickly provide assistance and speed up the process of qualifying leads to seconds. This way, live chat (...)

#chatbots #growth-hacking #lead-generation #marketing

Salut a Toi at FOSDEM this week-end!
▻https://www.goffi.org/b/NQsienam2XDpRGbA5qHwTV/salut-fosdem-this-week

Hello, a small note to say that I’ll be present at FOSDEM this week-end and I’ll do 2 talks:

“XMPP Beyond Instant Messaging” where I’ll show that XMPP is far more than an instant messaging protocol. Room H.1309 (Van Rijn) Sunday at 9:25 “Salut à Toi: A Python Based Social Network And More” which will be a presentation of the Salut à Toi ecosystem. Room UD2.120 (Chavanne) Sunday at 16:00

I’ll often be at the “XMPP lounge”, but I’m also planning to attend some talks and meet people at other booths, so don’t hesitate to ping me on the SàT XMPP room sat@chat.jabberfr.org (also available from this link) if you want to talk and/or have a demo. Salut à Toi is in stabilisation phase, and the incoming 0.7 release will bring a new desktop/mobile(Android) frontend, advanced file sharing, events, the (...)

How #chat #api boosts the Engagement and Retention of Users
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-chat-api-boosts-the-engagement-and-retention-of-users-646bb7bb1739?s

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Instant #messaging is a term that entered common usage during the 90s. The days of GTalk, Yahoo Messenger, Orkut, who can forget?But do you know that the actual concept of instant messaging dates back to the mid-1960s? The Compatible Time-Sharing Systems (CTSS) were one of the very first multi-user operating systems, created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Computation Center in 1961. They allowed up to 30 users to log in at the same time and send messages to each other. Those systems, which perhaps seems closer to emails today, had a lot of registered users from MIT and nearby colleges by 1965.Since then, we have come a long way as today we have multiple ways to communicate. In the case of user-user interaction, we have options like push notification, in-app (...)

#in-app-messaging #chat-api

When did you start getting into computers and the internet?
▻https://hackernoon.com/when-did-you-start-getting-into-computers-and-the-internet-159cab7660ff?

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via Where There’s Smooke There’s Fire: Interview With David Smooke Founder of Hacker Noon by Pirate Beachbum on Hacker Noon:“Oregon trail in the computer lab was among my early computer memories. When the first computer made it into my house I didn’t think it was a big deal. Floppy disks, meh. The breakthrough wasn’t the computer; the breakthrough was the internet. AIM & ICQ were game changers to the middle school social life. The introduction of instant textual interaction. Chatting it up. Away messages. Moving the power of words to the screen. Instant messaging laid the groundwork for “clarifying” the difference between 1:1 communication and 1:public communication.I remember joining a ‘gifted’ program where we picked stocks after school with fake money. Musta’ been about 13 or 14. That’s (...)

#netflix #oregon-trail #getting-into-computers #david-smooke #and-the-internet

Following the #EFF blunder about #Efail, a good analysis of “security nihilism” ("Since we can’t solve that problem, it’s not worth solving other related problems.")

▻https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/encrypted-email-and-security-nihilism

#security #cybersecurity #PGP #Signal

Erlang Programming Language
▻http://www.erlang.org

#Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang’s runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

#OTP #elixir

An Objection to ‘The ecosystem is moving’

▻https://gultsch.de/objection.html

In May 2016 Moxie Marlinspike published an article on his company’s blog entitled ‘Reflections: The ecosystem is moving’ where he claims that federated systems are ‘stuck in time’. Since then his blog post has been passed around primarily to support the argument that federated, XMPP based, instant messaging is not working and won’t ever provide a decent user experience. [...]

#Xmpp #réseau #cccp

The UK Home Office has just officially banned access to social media and instant messaging to people in immigration detention centres

The Detention Services Order 04/2016 Detainee Access to the Internet requires all detention centres to offer monitored internet terminals for 7 hours a day, including access to web-based e-mail and material on the internet that may be relevant to their immigration case, but prohibits social networks and instant messaging.

▻https://medium.com/@TheRehn/the-uk-home-office-has-just-officially-banned-access-to-social-media-and-ins

#réseaux_sociaux #détention_administrative #rétention #UK #Angleterre #asile #migrations #réfugiés

Ricochet.im - Anonymous instant messaging for real privacy
▻https://ricochet.im

Ricochet is a different approach to instant messaging that doesn’t trust anyone in protecting your privacy.

– Eliminate metadata. Nobody knows who you are, who you talk to, or what you say.
– Stay anonymous. Share what you want, without sharing your identity and location.
– Nobody in the middle. There are no servers to monitor, censor, or hack.
– Safe by default. Security isn’t secure until it’s automatic and easy to use.

▻https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet

Quelqu’un a essayé ?

#Messagerie_instantanée #P2P #Pair_à_pair #Ricochet.im #The_Onion_Router #Tor

users:faq - #tox Wiki
▻https://wiki.tox.chat/users/faq#what_is_tox

Tox is a free (as in liberty and price) peer to peer, distributed, multimedia messenger. Using existing technologies such as dispersed networking and strong cryptography, Tox can provide a superior instant messaging experience than current market offerings. Files can be shared as fast as you and your partner’s Internet connection allows, #audio calls are instantaneous, and there are no arbitrary limits to how many people you can have in a group conversation. Tox’s goal is to get secure messaging in the hands of everyone because we feel it’s necessary in a world where our privacy is often overlooked; which means our efforts are free of charge with absolutely no strings attached. There are no advertisements; you are not the product and absolutely no data is collected from our (...)

#messagerie_instantanée #distribué #vie_privée #opensource #skype #irc #vidéo

BBC News - Join BBC News on Line
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-29157878

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BBC News is now available on the Line instant messaging platform.

Line users can subscribe to the account by searching for @BBCNews in the ’friends’ search tab. If you’re viewing this page on a mobile browser, you can go to the account from this link.

Users in the following countries and territories will also be able to find the account in the Official Accounts tab:

US, Australia, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, India, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong.

Line subscribers will receive twice-daily push alerts of the latest news in English, via text, images, short video clips, and audio. They will also be able to find more content via the account’s Home tab.

Using Line is the latest in a series of editorial pilots from BBC News using a variety of instant message apps. Earlier this year, WhatsApp, BBM, WeChat and Mxit were used during the elections in India and South Africa and for coverage of major stories in Nigeria.

BBC News is also available on a number of other social media platforms:

Facebook

BBC News

BBC World News

Twitter

BBC Breaking

BBC World

BBC News

Google+

BBC News

Instagram

BBC News

Le mythe de l’état omniscient n’est qu’un mythe

Proliferation of new online communications services poses hurdles for law enforcement - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/proliferation-of-new-online-communications-services-poses-hurdles-for-law-enforcement/2014/07/25/645b13aa-0d21-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html

Federal law enforcement and intelligence authorities say they are increasingly struggling to conduct court-ordered wiretaps on suspects because of a surge in chat services, instant messaging and other online communications that lack the technical means to be intercepted.

A “large percentage” of wiretap orders to pick up the communications of suspected spies and foreign agents are not being fulfilled, FBI officials said. Law enforcement agents are citing the same challenge in criminal cases; agents, they say, often decline to even seek orders when they know firms lack the means to tap into a suspect’s communications in real time.

#surveillance

GCHQ Catalog of Exploit Tools
▻https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/gchq_catalog_of.html

GLASSBACK: Technique of getting a targets IP address by pretending to be a spammer and ringing them. Target does not need to answer.

MINIATURE HERO: Active skype capability. Provision of real time call records (SkypeOut and SkypetoSkype) and bidirectional instant messaging. Also contact lists.

MOUTH: Tool for collection for downloading a user’s files from Archive.org.

PHOTON TORPEDO: A technique to actively grab the IP address of MSN messenger user.

SILVER SPECTOR: Allows batch Nmap scanning over Tor.

SPRING BISHOP: Find private photographs of targets on Facebook.

ANGRY PIRATE: is a tool that will permanently disable a target’s account on their computer.

BUMPERCAR+: is an automated system developed by JTRIG CITD to support JTRIG BUMPERCAR operations. BUMPERCAR operations are used to disrupt and deny Internet-based terror videos or other materials. The techniques employs the services provided by upload providers to report offensive materials.

BOMB BAY: is the capacity to increase website hits/rankings.

BURLESQUE: is the capacity to send spoofed SMS messages.

CLEAN SWEEP: Masquerade Facebook Wall Posts for individuals or entire countries.

CONCRETE DONKEY: is the capacity to scatter an audio message to a large number of telephones, or repeatedely bomb a target number with the same message.

GATEWAY: Ability to artificially increase traffic to a website.

GESTATOR: amplification of a given message, normally video, on popular multimedia websites (Youtube).

SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE: Perfect spoofing of emails from Blackberry targets.

SUNBLOCK: Ability to deny functionality to send/receive email or view material online.

SWAMP DONKEY: is a tool that will silently locate all predefined types of file and encrypt them on a targets machine

UNDERPASS: Change outcome of online polls (previously known as NUBILO).

WARPATH: Mass delivery of SMS messages to support an Information Operations campaign.

HAVLOCK: Real-time website cloning techniques allowing on-the-fly alterations.

HUSK: Secure one-on-one web based dead-drop messaging platform.

#surveillance

Lebanon : : BlackBerry service disrupted in Lebanon, Mideast
►http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2011/Oct-10/150929-blackberry-service-disrupted-in-lebanon-mideast.ashx

Telecoms Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui said Monday that BlackBerry subscribers could experience delays in services, as Research in Motion Ltd says it is investigating an unidentified issue affecting Blackberry services in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

“BlackBerry subscribers may experience delays in sending or receiving messages, or using other services such as Internet browsing, instant messaging or receiving push notifications (News, Facebook, Twitter),” Sehnaoui said on his Twitter account Monday.

He added that the problem was from RIM and would keep users updated for any new developments regarding the issue.

However, BlackBerry did not elaborate further on the issue, but telephone companies whose customers use the company’s smartphones said they have witnessed problems with Internet access and BlackBerry’s popular messenger service.

Le délai avant réception de votre message BlackBerry au Liban est facile à expliquer : celui-ci est d’abord intercepté par la NSA américaine, puis visé par le Hezbollah, transféré à Damas, censuré à Tel Aviv, expédié pour consultation en Arabie séoudite, et enfin affiché sur votre petit écran. Si c’est écrit en arabe, c’est un peu plus long (il faut des traducteurs assermentés à chaque fois). Rien que de très normal, donc.

China hails Cameron’s look at instant messaging crackdown | Left Foot Forward
►http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/08/china-hails-camerons-look-at-instant-messaging-crackdown

Chinese Communists have praised the Prime Minister for investigating whether clampdowns on instant messaging and other social media can be introduced.

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The newspaper argues that a new authoritarian attitude by the British government could “appease” tensions between the UK and China.

Global Times then uses Cameron’s consideration of a social networking clampdown as a weapon to criticise proponents for more internet freedom in the world’s most populous country:

“As for China, advocates of an unlimited development of the Internet should think twice about their original ideas.

“On the Internet, there is no lack of posts and articles that incite public violence. They will cause tremendous damage once they are tweeted without control. At that time, all governments will have no other choice but to close down these websites and arrest those agitators.

“Turbulence must lead to self-examination, otherwise it’ll lead to great peril in one’s destiny.”

#censure #uk #chine

OneTeam - open source enterprise multi-network instant messaging client
►http://oneteam.im

OneTeam is a versatile instant messaging client that is very intuitive to use. Even people who are new to instant messaging will find it easy to get started, while experienced users will discover a range of advanced features, like accessing archived conversations or setting up chat rooms.

Un client #xmpp en extension #Firefox...
#jabber

Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US | Media | The Observer
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/22/social-networking-cyber-scepticism-twitter

The way in which people frantically communicate online via #Twitter, #Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern #madness, according to a leading American sociologist.

“A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological,” MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book, Alone Together, which is leading an attack on the information age.

(…)The list of attacks on social media is a long one and comes from all corners of academia and popular culture. A recent bestseller in the US, The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, suggested that use of the #internet was altering the way we think to make us less capable of digesting large and complex amounts of information, such as books and magazine articles. The book was based on an essay that Carr wrote in the Atlantic magazine. It was just as emphatic and was headlined: Is Google Making Us Stupid?