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You can use AIM Express from any browser, you have to allow the window itself to pop-up though. AIM even has a Linux client. Read all about it.Where IM is concerned, the market is cornered because the market is cornered. If someone were to come out with an awesome IM service, would anyone use it? "Hey, what's your AIM screen name?" 'I don't have one, I use Florbnab.' "What's that?" People already have established their screen names in various IM networks already, AIM, MSN, ICQ, IRC, etc.

Funny that AOL's own AIM Virus/Trojan Help page instructs the user on installing and using Ad-Aware (steps 5-8).

Of course, that was probably posted long before Ad-Aware would actually remove parts of AIM itself.

Smash TV is the video game version of the Running Man.

No, MMORPGs such as EverQuest are the video game version of the Running Man. Or do you refer to some other running man with which not all Slashdot users may be familiar?

in the future

The intro cinemas of the game Smash TV claim that it takes place in 1999. The only violent "smashing" that happened in 1999 was the release of the game Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 64, which was initially advertised as if it were a pay-per-view wrestling event.

"That's right: Who on earth has a cable modem but not a computer?" I don't see anyone paying $600 for a video phone when they could drop $100 on a webcam and use the free video-chat features of AIM or MSN Messenger which they most likely already use. Thats what the earth scientists are doing!

I just went to aim.com - to betas for Windows and got this message..


"AIM 5.5 Beta for Windows
There is no Beta version currently available. Please check back soon"

apparently, Apple just got the hose job from AOL. They shouldn't have announced this until they saw that AOL had their shit together.

If your running Linux and go to their site you'll see that they have a linux version and they keep it updated:) Wonder if it has these new features.
Regards,
Steve

There is a growing momentum though for corporate versions of IM software. While I know AOL is not the only one, it is a quick and easy example. AOL has info about its corporate IM service. With a overview of what they offer here.

There is a growing momentum though for corporate versions of IM software. While I know AOL is not the only one, it is a quick and easy example. AOL has info about its corporate IM service. With a overview of what they offer here.

No, this will punish the innocent - just like blacklisting whole IP blocks does.

I don't think adding Warn IP" is a good idea either but the current Warn feature based on screen name is time dependent. Warnings eventually expire so a user can't be permanently blacklisted.

FAQ about Warnings

I think IM clients should have their default set to allow IMs from Buddies only. I think this is the best option for the large majority of IM users. For those who want or need to receive IMs from unknown people, they could just change the the setting.

I don't see this becoming as big a problem as spam is. Spam requires no authentication whereas IM requires you to create an account with the IM service. The IM service provider can do all kinds of things to make mass screen name creation hard.

I loaded Gaim for the first time this morning, and I was unable to log into MSM using my hotmail.com account. I loaded Firebird so I could visit Gaim's website to see if this was a known problem, and my homepage told me all I need to know.

This isn't a major problem, there are plenty of other IM clients and networks, the problem is getting all my Windows and Mac using friends to move over to using them.

I am not bitter though, after all its their network, bandwidth and development time, but perhaps its time to renew my interest in Jabber and see exactly what it can do....

Andrew McCall.

AIM also has an enterprise version.

iChat is not the Mac version of AIM. iChat is Apple's AIM clone. Other AIM clones include Fire and Adium.

Personally I think iChat sucks, compared to AIM, with the obvious exception of videoconferencing, but I don't know anyone with a FireWire camera anyway. Hopefully this news means by the time I do, AOL will have added videoconferencing support to AIM, and it will interoperate with iChat. That would rock.

In the mean time, Yahoo! Messenger is the best free videoconferencing app I've found, although it just does video, no sound.

The next thing I want to know is which provider gives the best wireless internet services, including unlimited connections for a reasonable price -- and services such as AIM with a real client instead of through SMS messages. aim.com/wireless is a start, but I want to hear from those of you who use the services.

I currently have cingular, who does not offer AIM, and I've had numerous problems trying to get the wireless web service to work (apparently it wasn't supported by the towers in my home calling area).

what about AIM for linux?

i use gaim becuase it's better, but AOL *did* port some of their branded, own software to a *nix.

http://aim.com/get_aim/linux/latest_linux.adp?aolp erm=

ralph hogaboom

Isn't this exactly what AIM Enterprise was created for? Why have I not seen anyone mention it?

So, how is AIM going to sell their Enterprise AIM Services? Something doesn't smell right

-dk

If AOL has any ties to Verisign, et al.? If it's using PKI (which it says it is), and the "About AIM Personal Certificates" page (Link Here) says it is (which really doesn't go into how they're implemented, or how you can get a certificate), who's to say that they're not going to charge you for getting a certificate? Yahoo integrated encryption in their Yahoo Messenger Enterprise, and other companies have done this in the past (I believe that even ICQ had a version of their server up so that companies could set their own ICQ servers up).

I honestly think it's all about the Money for AOL, and it's going to be prohibitive for Joe Sixpack to get this to work.

AOL sells a product that is meant to log AIM traffic going through the enterprise network...


http://www.aim.com/get_aim/enterprise/enterprise .a dp

"AIM Enterprise Gateway
Now available, AIM Enterprise Gateway increases the value and manageability of AIM for organizations. Deployed onsite, AIM Enterprise Gateway acts as a proxy between users inside the corporate firewall and those on the public AIM network, enabling enterprises to manage and control employee usage of AIM services. AIM Enterprise Gateway provides Identity Management Services that enable administrators to control access, routing, and permissions. AIM Enterprise Gateway also features Archive and Audit Services that monitor AIM usage, log and audit messages, and create reports. "

AOL sells a product that is meant to log AIM traffic going through the enterprise network...


http://www.aim.com/get_aim/enterprise/enterprise .a dp

"AIM Enterprise Gateway
Now available, AIM Enterprise Gateway increases the value and manageability of AIM for organizations. Deployed onsite, AIM Enterprise Gateway acts as a proxy between users inside the corporate firewall and those on the public AIM network, enabling enterprises to manage and control employee usage of AIM services. AIM Enterprise Gateway provides Identity Management Services that enable administrators to control access, routing, and permissions. AIM Enterprise Gateway also features Archive and Audit Services that monitor AIM usage, log and audit messages, and create reports. "

This reminds me of my recent Journal Entry, "I've Given Up On Techno-Luddites".

I had been trying for a couple years to get my in-laws to sign up for AOL Instant Messenger. One way to run it is to use the java client in a browser, no download or installation required The idea is: we could save on long distance calls, and get ahold of each other more easily in an emergency, if they would just learn a wee little bit about using an IM client.

You would think it's like asking them to build the Pyramids of Giza...

So, imagine my frustration. These people can't follow directions to go to a web site and type in a couple of lines on a form. I lay partial blame on a culture that is widespread in America. It's the "spoon feed me, just do it for me, I am out of school and I don't have to learn anymore" attitude.

I've decided not to talk about anything tech with these people anymore. It's just too fucking painful. They're card-carrying members of the "My VCR flashes 12:00" club. At least my Father, at the age of 65, continues to learn every day, and has problem solving skills that take him a long way. He doesn't buy the "oh, I'm too old to learn that" meme.

Enterprise AIM.

There's a lot of money to be made in the IM to SMS arena. Companies like Verizon Wireless make tons of money off SMS. At 10 cents per text message, and 2 cents per incoming message, money can go down the drain very quickly. Also, since the average IM message is much shorter than the average SMS message, the amount of money that come in increases. If AOL can promote the use of its servers as means of passing SMS's through between carriers (as inter-carrier SMS is still not ready for prime time in my area), and use it as a means of communication to the home, they can rake in the money. But first they need to negotiate for a cut of the money first. I doubt they are getting a cut of the money from the wireless providers now, simply because the providers are treating AIM messages the same as SMS. But when the AOL domination of the SMS to computer IM market takes hold, I wouldn't be surprised to see them lobby for a cut of the proceeds.

Just thought I'd mention this since I discovered it recently, and I think it's pretty sweet =)

Here's the page for Wireless AIM, using SMS or WAP or some other company-specific messaging services. Most plans have free incoming messages, so this is an easy way for people to send you messages (MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ have similar features.)

-Berj

Has anyone ever thought of the security implications of allowing someone to have silent access to the rest of the world on an airplane? Let's set up the scenario: Some nutbag with a portable GPS device on his laptop is able to provide real-time coordinates to someone on the ground via AOL Instant messenger or some other chat program. With the elevated threat of surface to air shoulder-mounted rockets on the news lately, isn't this giving terrorists a new way to track planes? Call me paranoid, but as cool as it would be to be able to get an IRC fix at 40,000 feet, I just don't think its a very wise idea in these troubled times.

I like this idea. So we can emulate .Mac servers, BNETD servers, advertising servers, Cydoor servers, and even :CueCat servers. Setting up independent servers has the obvious advantage of being independent from an ultimate authority, decentralizing the service and making it more useful to the Internet community. So I ask Slashdot, what commericial or otherwise propertiary server will be reverse-engineered and cloned next? My vote is in for an Oscar/TOC server so one could use AOL-IM to communicate with one's LAN.

However, I want to use AIM... So, rather than installing AIM, or Trillian or Fire or GAIM, or any other client (and this would also apply to companies wanting to install this new encrypted client - they probably wouldn't want their users installing other versions), I go to aim.com and use AIM Express - the Java applet version of their client.

Nothing downloaded, nothing installed, no problem.

-T

to restore functionality ... Install Mozilla.

Yes, but if you uninstall NS7 and install Mozilla, you lose Netscape Instant Messenger. (That is, until you discover the AIM Express applet.)

" It's "locking people to your look & feel client WITH ADVERTISING". Gotta make the money somehow.

At any rate there a few things Linux is not good at:

AOLIM

Uh.... AOL has a NATIVE Linux client for AIM!

I'm fairly sure the JAVA version of the AIM client is up to date with the newest bells and whistles. So I doubt the AIM Express client is vulnerable. I'd just use that in the mean time.

For the lazy: AIM Express

( Yeah I know, I posted this to the wrong thread origanally. : ( )

I'm fairly sure the JAVA version of the AIM client is up to date with the newest bells and whistles. So I doubt the AIM Express client is vulnerable. I'd just use that in the mean time.

For the lazy: AIM Express