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Around 2011, AIM started to lose popularity rapidly, partly due to the quick rise of Gmail and its built-in real-time Google Chat instant messenger integration in 2011 and because many people migrated to SMS or iMessages text messaging and later, social networking websites and apps for instant messaging, in particular, Facebook Messenger, which was released as a standalone application the same ...
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[citation needed] SmarterChild became very popular, attracting over 30 million Instant Messenger "buddies" on AIM (AOL), MSN and Yahoo Messenger over the course of its lifetime. [5] Founded in 2000, ActiveBuddy was the brainchild of Robert Hoffer and Timothy Kay, who later brought seasoned advertising executive Peter Levitan on board as CEO ...
Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for many instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to simultaneously log in to various services from a single application, with a single interface for both popular and obsolete protocols (from AIM to Discord), thus avoiding the hassle of ...
It was used by AOL's AIM instant messaging system and ICQ. Despite its name, the specifications for the protocol remain proprietary. AOL has gone to great lengths to keep competitors (namely Microsoft , XMPP , and Cerulean Studios) from implementing compatible clients for their proprietary messaging systems.
QIP: supports ICQ, AIM, XMPP and XIMSS; stICQ: supports ICQ, for Symbian OS; Trillian: supports ICQ, IRC, Google Talk, XMPP and others; AOL supported clients include: AOL Instant Messenger (discontinued in 2017) Messages/iChat: uses ICQ's UIN as an AIM screenname, for macOS
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This week, Aol announced that it is letting Facebook into the AIM ecosystem and allowing users on either network to chat across. Users on Aol's pioneering chat utility Aol Instant Messenger (AIM ...