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March 5, 2008 9:49 AM PST

AOL opens up AIM

Posted by Elinor Mills

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?
by facerw March 5, 2008 10:17 AM PST
I thought we already had an open source AIM, called Pidgin
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Great...
by DeathsOverture March 5, 2008 11:04 AM PST
...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.
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