Posts Tagged ‘aol’

Better late than never

June 27, 2008

I came across this a few mins ago and felt compelled to share it immediately:

I had high hopes for AIM Share a while back.  It never took off the way I thought it would.  It is nice to stumble upon it on the wild wild net.

AIM Tunes: Music Sharing At Its Best

September 22, 2007

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 learned something about innovation today

September 19, 2007

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, [...]

ICQ is not really taking over AIM

September 18, 2007

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, [...]

AIM 6 Beta 2 released

July 18, 2007

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 [...]

AIM for iPhone — Tiny Buddy IM

July 8, 2007

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 TV Commercial

May 29, 2007

ICQ recently launced an IM client with Orange Israel. Orange produced a TV commercial for it! Check it out here.

Extend your music library with BuddyTunes

April 30, 2007

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 [...]

Adding a theme to AIM 6

April 6, 2007

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…

AIM 6.1 and AIM Lite 0.32 Launched

March 28, 2007

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 [...]