5 month ago
wearehugh : AOL “opens” AIM Protocol | isomerica.net - for some definition of "open" that means "closed"
Rod Begbie : AOL "opens" AIM Protocol - That "open" AIM thing announced earlier? Looks to be more of a club to try and force clients like Gaim and Adium to include AOL advertising. Fuckers. [via] #
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5 month ago
Rod Begbie : Open AIM | dev.aol.com - AOL have opened up the AIM protocol for reals, documenting the protocol and encouraging, rather than barely-tolerating, third-party AIM clients. I'd rather deal with XMPP, but this is an interesting step forward. [via] #
deusx : Welcome to Open AIM! | dev.aol.com - "Open AIM continues to lead the way with providing the most powerful and flexible platform to power your communication, collaboration, and social networking experiences. "
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43folders : Poll: 'IM-ing' divides teens, adults - Yahoo! News - "About a fifth of teen IM users have used IM to ask for or accept a date. Almost that many, 16 percent, have used it to break up with someone."
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22 month ago
Andy Baio : FoleyBot - pretend to be a 16-year-old congressional page boy [via]
jimray : Foleybot - It was only a matter of time before someone coded up a Turing/Foley test
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gleuschk : American Institute of Mathematics - Google Video of the planned building - space-age and medieval, all at once
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26 month ago
Linkorama : Byoms: IM Search - I've been playing with this, it's really useful, a handy bot in AIM
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28 month ago
deusx : 90% Crud: AIM Down - "go on and add all the people @gmail.com to your contact list. Imagine how surprised they'll be to see your Jabber ID show up"
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29 month ago
jimray : AOL to let others customize AIM - Opening up AIM to third parties, which is awesome
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29 month ago
deusx : MAKE: Blog: MAKEbot - new features! - "MAKEbot is an Instant Message bot you can talk to and get the latest news, "pings", photos, bookmarks, projects, audio/video and more from MAKE from any computer or your phone!"
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30 month ago
deusx : TOC2 protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The TOC2 protocol is an updated version of the TOC protocol, or "Talk to OSCAR" protocol. Its existence was never documented by AOL and it is only used in a few AOL Instant Messenger clients."
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32 month ago
jimray : Google-AIM messenging not that interesting, after all - "Integrating Google Talk and AIM will be done in a roundabout way, mostly to keep AOL and Google from exposing the valuable profile information customers must first provide to sign up. In essence, the two IM networks will not be connected."
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Teen 2.0 - The best session. I've been mulling over how to bring this kind of user group to unfunded startups
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35 month ago
plasticbag : meebo.com - bloody astonishing multi-platform IM client in your browser - Doesn't seem to work so well on Safari - or at least not with the amount of tabs I have open normally, but still.
deusx : meebo.com - Really nifty browser-based IM client.
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37 month ago
Andy Baio : AIM Fight - I defy anyone to beat me, 'waxpancake'; may the most connected buddy win! [via] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : AIM fight, see who has a larger social network
Jason Shellen : AIM Fight - It was a close one but I must tip my hat to Anil and anyone in Google PR. #
plasticbag : AIM Fight - pit two AIM names against one another and see which is in the most buddy lists across the world... - Got this one from Anil Dash ('anildash'). If you want to pit yourself against me, my IM name is plasticbagUK
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