At age 76, my friend’s dad just bought his first computer: a MacBook. He’s getting set up with all of the best web based tools to use, including gmail. He was getting a computer lesson from his son-in-law and I chatted him up. Despite what he says, he’s doing an excellent [...]
Tag Archives: AIM
omg d00d, not teh LIBRARY!
20 Dec 05 – 11:45 pm
The slashdot thread about google’s acquisition of 5% of AOL was of interest to me because of GTalk and AIM. The deal is all about advertisements, and all about IM (which itself is about advertisements (scanning our conversations?), and probably VOIP). Even though Trillian and Meebo make it less necessary to have network [...]
AIM presence
6 Oct 05 – 1:33 pm
AOL Instant Messenger is looking to gain some real estate on your website through AIM Presence. A very short registration gives you a line of code to paste into your site. This code will display one of a six small icons, indicating whether you are online, offline, idle, away, or on mobile [...]
web-based multi-client IM tool
15 Sep 05 – 9:17 pm
Most of us probably know that there are a few Instant Messaging networks competing for users. Because of this, IMming libraries might be best served by being available via all of them (as to not alienate any potential users).
Many people that find IM to be a killer app use
google IM roundup
23 Aug 05 – 8:51 am
Evidently the rumors of a Google IM (Google Talk?) program are true. It is reported that Google will unveil an IM program tomorrow.
The interoperability of email made it easy for people to be interested in and switch to Gmail, but they won’t have that luxury. I’m very curious how they’ll try [...]
IM Security
11 May 05 – 1:18 pm
Libraries are concerned with the security of their computers. This is a good thing. Every time I talk to librarians about IM in their libraries, they ask about the security risks involved. Because of this I’m always on the lookout for news related to malware being spread via IM clients.
I’ve [...]
new AIM in beta
27 Apr 05 – 6:00 pm
The last thing I’m here to do is shill for AOL, but I think the news coming out about Triton, the next generation AIM client, is worth mentioning. It isn’t that its features (from what I’ve read about them) are terribly innovative (or that it has a very original name – cripes, if you’re [...]
AOL TOS A-OK?
15 Mar 05 – 1:58 pm
You may have read that America Online recently altered their Terms of Service for AOL Instant Messenger (and their other services). The good news is that the Internet community kinda flipped out, raised some Cain, and they changed/clarified their policy.
You can imagine that when it came out that the TOS in place since February [...]
unstoppable
7 Dec 04 – 1:54 pm
A colleague sent me a sad email regarding Instant Messaging at her library. Evidently she was experimenting with it, hoping to increase communication within her library. The IT department found the IM software on her computer and took it off. The gall!
While this might be a lesson for others [...]
