Wednesday, April 1, 2009

a. Synchronous Messaging; e.g. Skype, Team Speak, MSN

Synchronous messaging describes communications that takes place between two applications or systems, where the system places a message in a message queue (also called an Event Queue in enterprise messaging systems) and then waits for a message response before it continues processing.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/synchronous_messaging.html


Synchronous messaging is a huge benefit for collaborating with group mates, especially it has no distance, time and location limited once there is Internet access.

The contrast between synchronous messaging and asynchronous Messaging is the interactions between the userS, which allow more than 2 people to interact in the same time, people can either chat through messages, talk and video talk.

The Synchronous messaging example including Skype, Team Speak and MSN, another example including ICQ, Net Meeting etc.

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