Meta rolls out “activity status” to Threads that shows a green dot next to a user's profile picture to show the user is online, if they have the feature enabled
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Chris Messina / @chris : What's up AIM buddies? — RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: @gateklons : And the GDPR legal basis for this disclosure is? Mark Gurman / @mark...
As AOL Instant Messenger shuts down today after 20 years, readers reminisce about the heyday of instant messaging
Ars readers reminisce about the heyday of instant messaging. — Today, America Online Instant Messenger, better known by its acronym, AIM, went dark after more than two decades of faithful service.
As part of Time Warner merger, FCC forced AOL to open AIM social graph to competitors in 2001; government should impose similar requirements on Facebook today
One of the former most popular and influential instant messaging apps in the world, AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM, is shutting down on December 15, AOL announced on Friday.
Facebook tests “sidebar status” feature in mobile apps, similar to AIM's away message
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Former MSN Messenger Service developer recounts battle to reverse engineer AIM's chat protocol
Chat Wars — In the summer of 1998 I graduated from college and went to work as a programmer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I was put on the group that was building MSN Messenger Service, Micr...
Fring Enables VoIP Calls Over Wi-Fi for iPhone with Skype Support
Fring has released the iPhone version of their service today as a free download in the App Store. — Fring allows you to chat and interact with others on a variety of networks including Skype, MSN, G...
AOL-Bebo: $850M Deal Closes; AOL Combines Bebo, AIM, ICQ Into People Networks Headed By Shields
It's official—AOL (NYSE: TWX) now owns Bebo, closing the $850 million acquisition roughly two months after making it public. The social media network will not stand on its own; instead …
AOL to Acquire Global Social Media Network Bebo
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal...
AIM® 6.8 Beta
Our first AIM 6.8 Beta build is now available for download! — Welcome AIM Beta testers. The next version of AIM is ready for your feedback, AIM 6.8. This version includes our new Real-Time IM feat...
AOL introduces location plug-in for instant messaging so users can see where buddies are
AOL is offering users of its AIM instant messaging service new capabilities to see where people on their buddy lists are physically located. — The first phase of this push is with an unusual softwar...