One of the most innovative services the AIM team has launched recently is Buddy Tunes. This week, we have taken this idea a couple of steps further with the alpha release of AIM Tunes. AIM Tunes lets you extend your music library to include music shared by your buddies. You can browse [...]
I am proud to say the AIM team is pretty good at innovation and have lead the pack at AOL and in the world of Instant Messaging. Innovation is very important to me and my team. It is one of the things that makes work fun. So when I heard Tom Kelley, [...]
According an article in Ynet news,
“ICQ Israel will soon be responsible for the software development of AOL instant messenger, or AIM, following a recent decision by the company.”
I have fielded as many questions about this article as I have about the looming layoffs at AOL. With all the other rumors going around AOL, [...]
As always, the hard working AIM team has released a new version. After a couple years of going backwards, I am happy to be able to say every month brings the best new AIM client ever. This release is no exception even though it is labeled Beta. The team is striving to ship release quality [...]
Thanks to James Burke, we (those of you who have an iPhone) can use AIM on your iPhone. Cool! James wrote about it on his blog. The client is basic but it works. You can try it out by clicking over to http://tybyim.com/ on your iPhone or using the Safari web browser.
ICQ recently launced an IM client with Orange Israel. Orange produced a TV commercial for it! Check it out here.
Like music? You will love the AIM BuddyTunes plug-in. Justin Cohen and friends have created the plug-in that lets you share your iTunes library with your friends and lets you listen to music from your friends iTunes libraries. It sounds complicated but it is very easy to use. Simply download the plugin [...]
Andy Wick and Elena Furman from the AIM Host team have created a mashup of Google Earth and AIM that is truly cool. It shows you in real time new IM conversations. It uses live data from the AIM system (respecting privacy) and draws a line between the city where the originator sits [...]
Very cool. Greg has figured out how to add a UNC theme to AIM 6. I think this is a sign of things to come. Check it out for yourself over on Greg’s blog. It looks like this…
Thanks to Greg and being late with this post, I can simply point you to his blog posts to get more info about our AIM 6.1 and AIM Lite 0.32 releases. The team has worked really hard to get AIM 6.1 out the door. I am very proud of everyone for the contributions [...]
