Did A Google Earth Mistake Cause A Couple's Brutal Murder?
Tumblr 101: Tips And Tricks To Get Started
Your Facebook friends list is coming to AOL Instant Messenger
AOL and Facebook have just announced one of the biggest and most useful social networking partnerships to hit the Internet since ... well, ever. Now, instead of having to use Facebook Chat -- which is frankly kind of clunky and obnoxious -- you'll be able to chat with all your Facebook buddies via AOL Instant Messenger. It's peanut butter meets jelly! Friends list meets buddy list! AIM meets Facebook Chat! The New York Times astutely points out that AIM and Facebook contact lists have historically been fairly closed off, although some multi-protocol chat clients (like Adium) have supported both. It's a great partnership for both companies, though, because Facebook desperately needs a better chat experience, and AOL needs a gateway for more users to try out its other services.
What do you think, DLS readers? Are you glad to see Facebook's social graph getting pulled into AIM?
Comments
14
Subscribe to commentsrobotrockFeb 10th 2010 1:46PM
People will bash it saying Pidgin this and Meebo that, but this is a good sign overall. Your average internet n00b can appreciate this.
Also, this looks like only the beginning and hopefully we'll get more interoperability in the future.
Mark BFeb 10th 2010 2:12PM
Agreed! While we might bash AOL, there are in reality a LOT of people who use AIM exclusively. Why? Well, because it came bundled when they bought their computers of course!
ExtantFeb 10th 2010 1:47PM
Will I be able to use facebook chat in Pidgin now, or is this just a special AIM thing?
ChrisFeb 10th 2010 2:00PM
The way it's written would imply that your Facebook friends list will get integrated into your AIM buddy list, so you should be able to use Pidgin.
I hope I'm right, since I currently use Digsby.
ChasaFeb 15th 2010 5:56PM
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/
michas_piFeb 10th 2010 2:08PM
How about no.
kaslingsFeb 10th 2010 2:09PM
how about iChat?
DustyFeb 10th 2010 2:19PM
I'm using Facebook chat with pidgin on my N900 as we speak.
NemanjaTGGFeb 10th 2010 2:22PM
I think this have to do something with that fb mail servis announced before?Maybe
kojo87Feb 10th 2010 2:34PM
people still use AIM? i thought that went out with the billions of free minute CDs the sent in the mail. i still have about 200 of those i am trying to find a use for.
JaminFeb 10th 2010 2:59PM
Well, I'd rather see a more open framework such as Jabber, but at least this means I can use a desktop IM client like Empathy without having to do any hacking.
P.Feb 10th 2010 5:37PM
The question is: will it be possible to chat with FB friends via Gmail chat. All in all it's possible to connect AOL account to gChat.
If yes, it's nice gift to Google and it's newly released Buzz, I guess ;)
fuccFeb 11th 2010 7:34AM
this is a great news, that integrated chat is unuseful. just courious now to understand when live messenger will integrate natively the fb chat italians: http://bit.ly/aQ13Ze
Dan HouserFeb 11th 2010 2:26PM
Great idea, can't wait! AIM is the fastest efficient communication IM program ever made. FB+AIM=LOVE IT!