Tag: OPENAIM

It's hard to get by with just one chat client these days. Your contacts aren't likely to be limited to a single service, like Google Talk, MSN Live or AIM, so a multi-chat client is a must. Now the multi-chat experience is about to get a lot better for AIM's 27.8 million users, with the launch of AOL's Open AIM 2.0 initiative. Open AIM will aid the developers of clients like Meebo and eBuddy by ...

Looks like parent company AOL has been testing out APIs that allow for embedding AIM into websites. This new feature for developers will allow users to directly send and receive instant messages from websites. The API also allows for availability, and away messages to be set in the user's profile via the web. The new AIM Whimsicals widgets allows developers to integrate different services and ...