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August 12, 2004
AOL Pushing Enterprise IM
Posted by Gregory Narain
America Online is extending its Enterprise IM plans to include a couple of new partners, namely FaceTime Communications and Akonix.
The online giant said FaceTime Communications and Akonix will be able to incorporate AIM's instant messaging and online presence technology into its products. The companies also will sell AIM's application programming interface (API) to businesses that wish to develop their own IM and presence features.
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Other uses could include information retrieval. For instance, if a salesman is out meeting with clients and needs competitive information, companies can create applications to retrieve data through internal IM networks to prepare for a sales pitch.
Source: News.com, "AOL opens messaging to enterprise developers"
I'm still waiting to hear how the Macromedia Central integration will work. It's been almost a year now and there has been pretty much dead silence on the matter. A shame considering the potential of that marriage.
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1. Nick Gray on August 13, 2004 11:57 PM writes...
Dear AOL,
Permalink to CommentPlease let developers start developing for your Buddy List. We want to make it all that it can be.
Sincerely,
Everyone who thinks that the Buddy List can be the next Mobile Operating System
2. pete on August 14, 2004 11:58 AM writes...
amen!
@ whizspark, we let people put the aol and yahoo IM icon on their profile. Yahoo's support of this and integration into its client sucks. All AOL allows is for people to see presence online at other websites.
We thought about integrating jabber, but since there isn't a critical mass of users, it doesn't make a lot of sense unless 1) our site is getting huge amounts of traffic and 2) we build in added value to it.
We certainly have some innovative thoughts on how to use IM for spreading the word about events, but find it hard to dedicate time to it, because it isn't going to bring a big bang in itself.
But, if AOL or Yahoo were more open about letting programmers develop off of the platform, that would be a different story.
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