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IM Etiquette
I came across an interesting page today entitled "IM Etiquette". Some of these tips are more important than others, but people who use good etiquette when IMing me (and probably many others) are much...
View ArticleAIM API Update
Greg and I are out in Silicon Valley this week talking with some select customers about our APIs (and getting a chance to grab some great fish tacos). Here's a shot of the AOL building here in Mountain...
View ArticleApples and Running Men
Dropped by the Apple campus on Wednesday to talk about some of the new and upcoming AIM features. Apple's iChatAV uses the AIM libraries that my team develops, and they've done great stuff with them -...
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InterGoogleop
Spent a long day Thursday at the Googleplex discussing various technical matters. We're jazzed to have Google extending the AIM network, and we expect our collaboration on engineering will result in...
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Orb Networks
Finished up our Bay Area swing with a visit to Orb Networks, who does some really neat stuff allowing you to access your home media (photos, TV shows) remotely either by PC or cell phone (and for...
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JAMS 2.51
JAMS 2.51 is out with a couple minor improvements:* MobileControl will now return users' away messages when using the "info" command* The issue with MobileControl and the """ entities has been...
View ArticleCool AIM Stuff of the Week
A bunch of things going on, so I'm a bit light on the updates this week. I'll be doing a mailbag early next week. In the meantime, here's a few neat AIM-related things I found while poking around on...
View ArticleGoogle and AOL
Whoah! Been a bit heads-down finishing up our APIs and cranking on new stuff for Triton. Can't wait to get this stuff out in your hands. Anyway, a number of recent happenings to blog about...Google's...
View ArticleNew Week, New Stuff
Last week brought some reshuffling of the technology groups at AOL, with one result being a greater focus on open services, and a second result being that I now report to the SVP in charge of open...
View ArticleAOL Employee Blogroll
So this blogging thing is starting to catch on at AOL. Seems like every day, I'm getting email from another employee blogger. So I figured I would make a master list of employee bloggers... and sort...
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Triton Beta 1.2.10
We just released a new beta of AIM Triton, this was mainly a bugfix release as we get ready to land our next set of features. Notable improvements in this release include support for most proxy...
View ArticleOpen AIM
At last! Today is a big day for our team and AOL as we proudly announce the "Open AIM" platform at http://developer.aim.com. In addition to our AIM Presence web service, we are now offering the AIM SDK...
View ArticleVON Conference
Greg and I are in San Jose for the VON conference this week, and Game Developers Conference next week. If you're interested in meeting up with us during that time to talk about Open AIM (or anything...
View ArticleAIM SDK License Clarifications
I have seen many posts ragging us for the language we have in the AIM SDK regarding what you can and cannot do. I agree that the language is confusing and overbearing in some parts, and often the legal...
View ArticleMore AIM SDK stuff
Whoah! Kind of fell off the surface of the blogosphere for a bit, had a lot of distractions recently (more on that another time). Anyway, here are a couple quick news items regarding the AIM SDK:After...
View ArticleTopCoder Open 2006
Just got back from the TopCoder Open 2006 finals in Las Vegas. For those unfamiliar with TopCoder events, they are computer programming competitions where contestants have to solve several programming...
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AOL Greenhouse
The AOL Greenhouse has officially launched. Greenhouse is a site where various employee-created apps, plugins, widgets, and other pieces of software that use AOL technology can be promoted for the...
View ArticleAOL Music Now Developer Site
AOL's music download service, MusicNow, just went live with its developer site at http://developer.aolmusicnow.com. Using RSS, you can get all sorts of interesting feeds from the site - top songs,...
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PCD Lounge
Some more cool Open AIM news - the startup Doppelganger just announced a new client called the PCD Lounge that lets you hang out and chat with people in a virtual nightclub, and it's integrated with...
View ArticleAIM SDK 1.1 Released
Today we released the latest version of the Open AIM SDK, at http://developer.aim.com. Highlights of this release:* AIM Bots - turn any screenname into a bot that has higher rate limits and cannot be...
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