About three weeks ago, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the latest Working Draft of a specification for WebRTC, and announced that they intend…
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OPLIN 4cast #399: Chatting gets serious
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Instant messaging is not new. Neither is the online chat room. The CompuServe “CB Simulator” in 1980 was probably the first Internet application that we…
OPLIN 4cast #374: Getting the message
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Much of the tech news last week was about Facebook’s huge deal to buy the WhatsApp messaging service. (One economist pointed out that the $19…
OPLIN 4Cast #316: Texting is old school
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Many libraries use SMS (Short Message Service), usually known as “text messaging,” instead of email or a phone call to notify patrons when their books…
OPLIN 4Cast #201: SMS Engagement
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A couple of weeks ago, OPLIN made a change to our SMS messaging service that enabled us to not only send messages from libraries to…