Re:AOL opens AIM and ICQ instant messaging protocols
by systems on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @11:43AM
(#129750)
ICQ soooooo nostalgic, who still uses ICQ?
I wonder why the makers of ICQ never predicted Facebook, they had the opportunity to improve the Interface, increase the features in a nice manner, and becoming facebook!
I dont know why they stuck themselve into the narrow one column interface thingie! They just cluttered their interface sooooo much
They so desperately needed to think outside the box, literaly
Among other things, like requiring you implement certain features, it says:
"AOL will issue you one or more alphanumeric software keys that are uniquely associated with your Screen Name and your Application(s) (the "Open AIM Keys") to enable you to access the Tools you will use to build your Developer Application(s). During the registration process for access to and/or download of the Tools associated with a given Application or Applications (as set forth below), you will be prompted to identify to AOL certain information describing your development and intended use of the relevant Applications, including the URL of your Site."
Re:AOL opens AIM and ICQ instant messaging protocols
by nkohari on Thursday March 06, 2008 @07:47AM
(#130503)
I'd really like to see someone mesh together IM and SMS in a seamless way. Probably won't happen while mobile phone carriers are charging per-SMS, though.
I wonder why the makers of ICQ never predicted Facebook, they had the opportunity to improve the Interface, increase the features in a nice manner, and becoming facebook!
I dont know why they stuck themselve into the narrow one column interface thingie! They just cluttered their interface sooooo much
They so desperately needed to think outside the box, literaly
http://dev.aol.com/aim/license
Among other things, like requiring you implement certain features, it says:
"AOL will issue you one or more alphanumeric software keys that are uniquely associated with your Screen Name and your Application(s) (the "Open AIM Keys") to enable you to access the Tools you will use to build your Developer Application(s). During the registration process for access to and/or download of the Tools associated with a given Application or Applications (as set forth below), you will be prompted to identify to AOL certain information describing your development and intended use of the relevant Applications, including the URL of your Site."
IRC or Jabber. You're done.
Yes, AIM is the 2nd largest Network in the US after Yahoo. Internationally MSN Messenger and QQ are dominating in terms of pure user numbers.