AOL opens up AIM

AOL on Wednesday announced the Open AIM 2.0 developer program, which opens up the chat network to third-party developers and services.

AOL is giving developers access to the AIM network to integrate the chat program into other applications and services, a first for the messaging service. Meebo and eBuddy are among the first partners.

The company also is rolling out a new advertising revenue-sharing platform in April called "AIM Money" in which developers of third-party applications can make money off display ads that appear next to AIM.

There are also new tools to aid developers of mobile and enterprise applications.

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Don't we have one?

I thought we already had an open source AIM, called Pidgin

[this1!]

meh

if thought was supposed to be witty, then its not bad, but no, pidgin/gaim arent exactly opensource aim, alot of features dont work that you can get on aim. Hopefully this means that Aim Linux can be taken over by some outside party, cuz Aim's linux messenger blows, its soo outdated and horribly supported, i dont mind pidgin, its better than kopete, but its still lacking alot of things...

[ltunes53]

before now it was essentially an hack and an incomplete one at that

before now other nonAIM products were essentially hacks and
incomplete ones at that, but now with AIM opening up they are
allowing developers access to all the functions of the network

[DeathsOverture]

Great...

...maybe now AOL will finally fix this:
http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/latest_win.adp

Check the latest version... I don't know about you guys, but I am skeptical about software from the future.