Entries tagged with “aim” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Aimster and FullAudio launch their own subscription services, and LiquidAudio is starting to look like a sinking ship.

AOL's open AIM, like Messenger, uses SIP.

The problem with AOL going after GAIM is that alienating third-party developers is exactly the wrong thing for AOL to do.

Over the last week or so, AOL started blocking Jabber, gaim, and Fire clients from connecting to AIM servers. At first AOL was doing IP blocking of Jabber servers, but at a certain point the strategy switched, and AOL started targeting libfaim, a library used by all these clients to communicate with AIM. The result was a classic cat-and-mouse game where AOL changes their protocol to block libfaim and open source programmers alter the library.