MetaFilter posts tagged with IM and ICQ

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!

AOL owns Instant Messaging?

Argyle — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:06:30 -0800

AOL owns Instant Messaging? - MSNBC is reporting that AOL's subsidary ICQ has received a patent for Instant Messaging. I would have thought IRC was enough prior art to invalidate the claim, but the Patent Office knows best. Can AOL put the genie back in the bottle?

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!

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.

PWA_BadBoy — Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:37:31 -0800

Have you been getting those annoying ICQ ad banners like me? Well, it appears that AOL/TimeWarner has been testing out ads in the ICQ IM interface. The backlash has begun. Here's a site that'll tell you how to get rid of some of the banners. My friend's also gone ahead and taken the liberty to hack the ICQ dll that causes the ads to appear and has full instructions on how to remove the ads permanently from your ICQ. Hurry and grab those dll's before he gets slashdotted!

mathowie — Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:16:15 -0800

There's a new version of icq out, although it looks like they're pretty close to their limit on adding buttons to the interface.

mathowie — Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:37:46 -0800

Bantu is the holy grail of instant messaging apps. The people behind it have been working on this for a while, and they're now offering a web-based, java client that can talk to ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo instant message clients. If it were a client side application, I'd probably use it, I'm not a big fan of leaving a browser window open all the time. Another drawback is that it can't reach AIM users.

tdecius — Tue, 02 Nov 1999 18:25:10 -0800

The ICQ Protocol Site is a neat resource about the ICQ protocol. Yeah, that's right. I bet you didn't see that coming. Anyways, the protocol is kinda elegant.