MetaFilter posts tagged with AIM

AIM Pages

tellurian — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:09:50 -0800

You have all dropped your MySpace profiles and jumped to AIM Pages, haven't you? [via]

Leonard Peltier, three decades of freedom denied.

mickeyz — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:25:14 -0800

Leonard Peltier...three decades of freedom denied. Thirty years ago today—February 6, 1976—the Canadian government arrested Leonard Peltier...later extraditing him to the U.S. for trial (sic). Some Peltier FAQ. Another informative site. How the other side sees it. Peltier and the American Indian Movement (AIM). Sign the online petition. As Dylan sang about Hurricane: "To see him obviously framed couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game."

making port 80 a bigger hole in the corporate firewall

machaus — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:29:46 -0800

Meebo.com. Web based chat (alpha) for all the main IM protocols.

Big man on Buddy List

condour75 — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:11:56 -0800

It's a popularity contest. Aimfight is essentially Google pagerank for your buddy list. Compare yourself against your opponents and see who's on more people's buddy lists. Via slashdot.

AIM owns you.

XQUZYPHYR — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:44:23 -0800

"You waive any right to privacy." AOL has just updated the terms of service for Instant Messanger, which include agreeing to the new requirement that AOL owns everything you write, has the right to reproduce it at will, and that you waive all requirements for prior approval to do so.

Zork over AIM!

mathowie — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:04:56 -0800

Play Zork directly in IM. Send an instant message to InfoComBot and choose from a list of available text-based games. You can even save games and return to them later. One thing's for sure: I'm not getting any work done this week.

Kennewick Controversy: A Sign of the Times

mcgraw — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 06:40:58 -0800

Research Vs. Religion: Scientists Win Lawsuit Against Native American Tribes The 9,000 year old remains, found in Kennewick, Washington in 1996, will be made available for study, rather than being buried by tribes who had hoped to assert the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in this case.

Blog Change Bot

UKnowForKids — Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:27:31 -0800

Blog Change Bot is an AOL Instant Messenger-based bot that will send you an IM whenever your favorite blogs are updated. (via Blogroots; more inside)

AIM-ICQ

riffola — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:26:14 -0800

From the better late than never dept: Now you can send instant messages between AIM/AOL and ICQ. AOL finally added interactivity support for their two IM protocols. Best new feature...
IM with yourself
Once you have the latest ICQ beta software, you'll be able to IM with the AIM and/or AOL on your own computer!

Buddyzoo!

aznblader — Tue, 15 Apr 2003 03:25:18 -0800

Buddyzoo is an interesting new site that lets you see which buddies on your AIM buddy list your buddies share with you. Sort of like a six degrees of seperation kind of thing. Very neat. Go check it out and sign up! And tell your friends!

ParisParamus — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:47:54 -0800

ICQ Snobs, Sorry: You now must communicate with the AIM Hoy Paloy. Another defeat for Cyber-Elitism!

mathowie — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:26:40 -0800

AIM screen name 'satan' going for $15k in an apparent bidding war that abandoned all sense of reality. Still three days left, let's see if they can break $50k? The dark lord could not be reached for comment, though jesusrox232 called it "ridiculous."

TNLNYC — Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:00:15 -0800

An interesting idea Create your own bot... Sounds like an interesting service. What do you think?

aaron — Sat, 16 Mar 2002 20:23:10 -0800

ActiveBuddy has added five new AIM bots, of various levels of usefulness. ELLEgirlBuddy for teen girl stuff; TattleTeller for Oscar®-related news and gossip; AgentReuters for news and stock quotes; NoBoundariesTV as a tie-in to the useless WB "reality" show that seems to focus around Ford trucks; and My eBay Buddy for, well, make a guess. Fair warning: They're all beta.

purplecow — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:27:52 -0800

download your crappy free aim client here Yup, this morning got bounced from trillian using AOL Instant Messenger again.
This time, got an interesting message from AOL. The AIM client opened itself with this message:

AOL Instant Messenger: You have been disconnected from the AOL Instant Message Service (SM) for accessing the AOL network using unauthorized software. You can download a FREE, fully featured, and authorized client, here http://www.aol.com/aim/download2.html .

So, fellow Mefi readers, how long can AOL block Trillian? Shouldn't they be coming up with more innovative campaigns, or is this a sign that the IM market is about to become a lot more competitive? Tawk amongst yourselves.

Jeffy — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:42:14 -0800

Trillian Users blocked from AIM service? The bit about this that scares me is the solution to the problem involves disabling the Secure IM functions. Is this a technical glitch or a conspiracy by AOL to reserve the ability to spy on our IM chats? Or build intentional security loopholes?

Brilliantcrank — Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:15:56 -0800

"What would you like to know? ActiveBuddy finally delivers their first real infobot, AgentBaseball. Use IM to find baseball scores, standings, player stats, player info, team stats, team info, xtra bases, and sports news.

Wanna try it? Just add AgentBaseball to your buddy list and send it a message with "hello".

barbelith — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 05:29:21 -0800

The Googlematic AIMBOT will only work for those of you with Instant Messager installed, of course. A profoundly useful little widget knocked together by Matt Webb allows you to do very quick and easy Google 'I feel lucky' searches from the comfort of your own Buddy list. Launched yesterday, I think it's a hell of a lot more useful than either SmarterChild or GooglyMinotaur as well as rather better conversation than any of the AIM chatbots I've found to date...

aaron — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:06:22 -0800

InfoBots are coming. I believe we've touched on this before, but now it seems to be moving from concept to reality: Instant Messenger "buddies" that are actually bots. You send them an IM with a question, such as "Hey pal, what's the weather in Thunder Bay, Ontario?" And it IMs you back with the answer, almost instantaneously. No waiting for messy web sites to load, no funky searches to run. ActiveBuddy has been the most, um, active in developing the technology, but they've been working on it forever without anything to show to the public. Now, it's out there, somewhere. CNET is reporting today that an ActiveBuddy beta bot has been live for a few months; you can play with it right now if you know its name. (And if you do know its name, a tip would be appreciated. I've been jonesing for this for a good while.) A more public version is supposed to be out in a few weeks. Here buddy buddy buddy...

Steven Den Beste — Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:13:27 -0800

If you're into such things, how to remove the advertisements from ICQ and AIM.

TNLNYC — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:19:00 -0800

Do you trust AOL IM? If you do, you might want to read this story.

ericost — Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:46:10 -0800

FCC: Open up AOL’s messaging "Federal regulators could force America Online Inc. to open its popular instant-messaging service to rivals as a condition of approving its acquisition of Time Warner Inc." I think this is good news for instant messaging, but I'm never really comfortable with the government forcing such things. What do you think?

chaz — Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:17:50 -0800

AOL + Eliza = AOLiza Some amusing AOL IM conversations using the old Eliza program. Via Yuppie Slayer

fable — Sat, 19 Aug 2000 23:22:58 -0800

AOLiza: Funnier than a wombat on meth.

mathowie — Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:45:08 -0800

Today's Davenetics (it's a newsletter) noticed a flurry of wireless deals came about today. AOL is planning mobile versions of instant messenger, email, and other AOL services, Microsoft is working on mobile MSN and Hotmail, while Amazon has unveiled their phone portal to shopping. Looks like we will soon be reminiscing about the good old days when the internet used silly wires and cables.