A few months ago AOL found a way to fuse AIM, its popular instant messenger client, with the broader messaging systems like Facebook and Twitter that have begun increasingly important on the web. AIM now includes a new tab dedicated to the lifestream — a combination of your friends’ activities on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, AIM itself, and a variety of other services (think of it as a FriendFeed with integrated chat). Tonight they’re bringing the lifestream to the iPhone with AIM 4.0, which is now live on the App Store for $2.99 (the free version doesn’t currently offer this functionality).
The new iPhone app will let you monitor updates from all the services supported by the desktop version of Lifestream. The app also lets you simultaneously post your AIM status updates to Twitter and Facebook — while the Lifestream was read-only until recently (you couldn’t post messages to services other than AIM), the service recently enabled this functionality.
Other new additions to the app include photo uploading, photo viewing on the Lifestream, and various UI improvements.
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Does’t sound like a bug to me…
Seems like a reasonable way of preventing a blank comment (an oxymoron by the way)
Sure it can be recoded to say “blank comment” not accepted/allowed or words to that effect… but probably not worth the hassle/bother…
A good move from the AIM. The new Lifestream app which includes popular instant messenger client, with the broader messaging systems like Facebook and Twitter with the Friends combination is quite interesting.
Interesting app…for those who need to know what their friends are doing 24/7…
AIM develops itself in a short span to a greater extent. The functionality of posting messages to other social networks is simply awesome. All the new additions and improvements proves AIM’s efforts to provide a full fledged social service.
thnx buddy….
On the surface, it looks like this provides the “motoblur” functionality announced yesterday (http://bit.ly/9Wfmn) that Motorola is hoping to use to differentiate its handsets, starting with the new Cliq. I guess they were differentiated for a day.
Funny. IM services and social networks seems to merge nowadays.
I wonder how many people they’re going to get paying $2.99 for it.
A nice upgrade… I like try it for sure…
I just wanna use it on my iPhone too…
Didn’t they announce this feature in the new desktop AIM app on the PC, Mac… and Windows Mobile??… one or more months ago? Nice to have the iPhone catch up. I wonder how long it sat in the app store.
Hmm, looks very interesting and useful, hope to try it soon.
I can dig it, though my impressionable mind is still married to the idea of a super-awesome iChat for iPhone
Yahoo has something called “Social Pulse” on their mobile site (pretty good). This looks very similar, but with some nice added features.
That would be great if I or anyone else still used Yahoo! Nice job to the AIM team, this is sweet.
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Great concept and I love the feature. Every major membership website out there could do the same thing tapping into the APIs.
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