Reminds me of a good point made here: http://plpatterns.com/post/169380277/sending-an-im-via-gtalk-in-clojure http://plpatterns.com/post/169380277/sending-an-im

Reminds me of a good point made here: http://plpatterns.com/post/169380277/sending-an-im-via-gtalk-in-clojure http://plpatterns.com/post/169380277/sending-an-im-via-gtalk... If you think of your software as your co-worker — someone you work with who helps you do your job — all kinds of functionality just make sense. Would you rather your co-worker emailed you or IMed you? Then the software should do that.