Posts Tagged ‘ICQ’

AOL To Acquire Socialthing

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Just saw that Socialthing is in the process of being acquired by AOL.

While this is certainly good news for Socialthing developers, I hope it doesn’t come back to bite them in the ass. AOL after all is pretty much known for fraking up everything they buy. Look what happened to WinAmp, ICQ, and Netscape.

Now the question is, what will happen to AOL? Time Warner has been looking to shed itself of that turd ever since it (for some reason) decided to buy it up… Will we see AOL finally picked up by Yahoo? With SocialThing, Bebo, Sphere, Xdrive, and of course the AIM/ICQ messaging networks it could really turn Yahoo around.

GMail Chat + AOL Instant Messenger

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

The line between IM protocols is becoming more and more blurred. Starting today [some] GMail users now have the ability to sign into their AIM account. Looks like only one account (yes, I have a couple). If you don’t have the option yet, you should be getting it in the coming weeks. It doesn’t look like ICQ users show up (AIM can communicate with ICQ as AOL owns both).

The Google Talk desktop client doesn’t support “AIM Talk” yet but I’d suspect we’ll see that very soon.

Trillian ICQ Update

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

There is an update available for Trillian 3.0 that addresses an ICQ connection issue. To download the update, start up Trillian and choose Help->Check for Updates.

Trillian ICQ Update

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

There is an update available for Trillian 3.0 that addresses an ICQ connection issue. To download the update, start up Trillian and choose Help->Check for Updates.

AOL Really Kicks The Llama’s Ass

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

It’s amazing that AOLTW still can’t figure out why they are losing customers, and having to let employees go. Could it be because everything that AOL touches turns to shit?

Read more about the possible end of Nullsoft & WinAmp at OverclockersClub.com or BetaNews.com.

For those of you who forgot, AOLTW also helped to destroy Netscape. Thankfully, ICQ has managed to survive AOLTW so far. Given AOLTW’s track record, I’m sure that won’t last.