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cos ([personal profile] cos) wrote2010-02-26 10:30 am
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Google goes Facebook, AIM goes Twitter

AIM has added a new "lifestream" that publicizes your status changes, twitter-style, and is public by default. Apparently, according to [livejournal.com profile] antimony, they also make it visible to other people when you "friend" them, which I think means add to your buddy list. If you want to make your "lifestream" not public, go to http://lifestream.aim.com/settings and log in and change your settings. I don't know if there's a way to restore the former ability to add people to your buddy list privately.
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[identity profile] hawver.livejournal.com 2010-02-26 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyone using the standard AIM client needs to get their head examined.
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[personal profile] cos 2010-02-26 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Lifestream does not require that someone use the standard client.

[personal profile] ron_newman 2010-02-26 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
iUse iChat, but what's so bad about the standard client?

[identity profile] hawver.livejournal.com 2010-02-26 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a complete piece of crap. Ads, they install "weather bug" and other crapola by default, no multi protocol support, and it says "AOL" on it. I rest my case.
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[identity profile] antimony.livejournal.com 2010-02-26 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I use Adium -- this is logging on AIM's side, not on the client.
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