AIM to Speak More Social Languages
PrintAOL has begun integrating its popular instant messaging service with two other social networking moguls: Facebook and Twitter. In July, they released a beta version of the AIM Client that connected the services to the application. With the updated beta version you were able to view friends’ status updates from Facebook and tweets from Twitter.
In a more recent update to the beta client, AIM now also gives you the power to update your Facebook status, as well as tweet from your Twitter account, all from within the AIM client. The updated “Lifestream” section of the application also features integration into other popular networking tools such as Flickr and YouTube.
A seemingly smart move by AOL, they’ve moved past their competitors, Yahoo Messenger and Live Messenger, by providing these additional, and in some cases, exclusive features.
Find more information about the AIM beta client and download a copy yourself here.
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robotsneedhugs2
September 08, 2009 at 9:39pm
Xfire with its new AIM integration is wonderful. Although, it's still in alpha, but it works pretty well.
minimumBS
September 08, 2009 at 5:53pm
Proving there ARE alternatives to Digsby.
Thanks for writing about this.
jwalch.hawk
September 08, 2009 at 7:01pm
It's sort of an alternative. Note that it still isn't multi-protocol as far as IM goes... So if you wanted to be on AIM and YahooIM at the same time you'd still need something else (though that doesn't have to be Digsby).
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