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AIM Now (Mostly) Open To Developers
gregsblog writes "Today is a historic day at AOL as we announced a software development kit for AOL Instant Messenger. Open AIM will empower you, as the developer, to write custom clients and plugins.
For now, lets concentrate on the Open AIM SDK and get into what it can do for you. First, the development kit is written using COM, so plugins and custom clients can be written for Windows in languages like C++, VB, C#, and eventually J-Script. In the near future we will have solutions for LINUX, MAC and Windows Mobile devices. Why is this important? We now have a solution to provide all AIM users and consumers to build their own IM clients and to extend the features of Triton via plugins. Of course all of this is free of charge. How do I get started? Well my team has provided a quick start guide, and tutorials, in addition to numerous coding examples, from the simple to the complex. Our examples are in C++ and C#.
What are the limitations? Basically anything goes, with the exception of writing multi-headed clients."
Nice job being a smartass to someone who's trying to provide accurate and useful information to a person who is curious and obvsiously doesn't know any better.
How do you find the time to make these posts between your busy schedule of kicking kittens and shoving nuns into traffic?
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Evil Walrus >83=
"Open" AIM. What a laugh. I'm glad that Google has inspired your marketing folks to spread freedom and democracy, but this is still a long shot from a truly open system (Jabber).
Oh, and by the way - why is your website showing me an ad for Dove deodorant, shampoo, and body wash? Bleh, AOL is doing some nice things lately, but it's way too little, way too late. The only way you're going to keep making money is by charging people's credit cards after they've canceled their subscription. Sorry, you loose.