Google goes Facebook, AIM goes Twitter

[cos]

AIM has added a new "lifestream" that publicizes your status changes, twitter-style, and is public by default. Apparently, according to 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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[cos]

I see a sign in box prominently on the right side.

[kirin]

Ok, wacky. The frame that was supposed to be the login panel was getting an error and redirecting to some AOL home page. I managed to do a partial page load, get info on the frame, find the referring URL, paste that into a new tab, log in there, and then get back to the settings page. Dunno. There was a "badbrowser" in one of the redirected URLs so it seems like maybe it didn't like my browser, then hit a 404 on the browser info page it tried to go to or something. Weird. I'm running Firefox 3.0.18 here.