Imèr (German: Immer or Almern) is a comune (municipality) in Trentino, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of Trento in northern Italy. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,213 and an area of 27.6 square kilometres (10.7 sq mi).
The municipality of Imer contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Masi di Imèr, village Sass Maor and Pontet.
Imer borders the following municipalities: Siror, Canal San Bovo, Mezzano and Sovramonte.
It includes the Vederne mountain and a part of the Noana valley.
Instant messaging (IM) is a type of online chat which offers real-time text transmission over the Internet. A LAN messenger operates in a similar way over a local area network. Short messages are typically transmitted bi-directionally between two parties, when each user chooses to complete a thought and select "send". Some IM applications can use push technology to provide real-time text, which transmits messages character by character, as they are composed. More advanced instant messaging can add file transfer, clickable hyperlinks, Voice over IP, or video chat.
Non-IM types of chat include multicast transmission, usually referred to as "chat rooms", where participants might be anonymous or might be previously known to each other (for example collaborators on a project that is using chat to facilitate communication). Instant messaging systems tend to facilitate connections between specified known users (often using a contact list also known as a "buddy list" or "friend list"). Depending on the IM protocol, the technical architecture can be peer-to-peer (direct point-to-point transmission) or client-server (a central server retransmits messages from the sender to the communication device).