AIM bears its skivvies
March 13, 2006
Well, in a manner of speaking anyway. AOL has opened up its instant messaging client, AIM, to developers. Creative developers can customize AOL to fit their own business’s needs. To get started, see the AIM developers page. A library techie could create a customized IM client for the library. Nice!
March 14th, 2006 at 6:32 am
The general response I’ve heard to this in the development world is that it is not nearly as good as the gaim api and that there is licensing issues. Why develop for one IM protocol when you can develop for multiple ones? Of course, I’m still hoping for some personal free time to develop a nice jabber IM middleware layer.
March 14th, 2006 at 7:01 am
Just realized a link to the gaim api might be useful. I haven’t gotten a chance to play with it yet, but here’s the docs for the api (the language used is C if I remember correctly). In the Related Pages links it also talks a little bit about the Perl version of the api.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/main.html