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Friday, February 22nd, 2002 at 7:21 PM | 3 commentsThe Shifted Librarian mentioned another program that connects the user to various instant messaging programs in one shot called IM Anywhere. It works with AIM, Yahoo, and MSN, but not ICQ.
The million dollar question is why is it working with AIM? Why hasn’t AOL attacked them like they attacked Trillian? Or does AOL have a deal with AT&T, the distributors? What about Eyeball Chat and Odigo? Both of these work with AIM.
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My understanding is that there are two Instant messaging protocols for AIM. One of them is used by the actual AIM app, and supports all the fancy AIM stuff, like buddy icons, file sending, etc. This is for AOL’s use only, and is the one that Trillian uses, hence AOL always trying to block it. The OS X app Fire used to use this one as well, and was oft blocked. However, it later switched to the other public one AOL has set up, which supports IMing and little else, and has been left alone since. I would assume the same reason stands for those other apps you’ve mentioned.
My guess would be that AT&T paid the licensing fee for access to AIM. Eyeball and Odigo want to be your corporate chat tool, so maybe they did, too, but I don’t know. I hope to have some time to dig through their sites to find any info on this.
I’ve been using MyJabber for a while, that’s also free, small footprint and reliable, and it does all of the big 4 plus having the great advantage of doing Jabber as well. I’d be interested to hear what you think about Jabber. I’m really into it but it seems to be slow on the uptake of newbies. Any thoughts? If you check it out my Jabber account/JID is Rogi@myjabber.net - be glad to see you there. (I’m also on rogi@jabber.com and rogi@jabber.org)
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