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You are here: Home / Tech / AIM is Dead

AIM is Dead

March 14, 2012 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

AIM, everyone’s once favorite chat program appears to be on the chopping block. AOL employee said the group was “eviscerated and now only consists of support staff.” 

AIM IS DEAD - AOL INSTANT MESSENGER IS DEADAt one time AOL’s AIM was, next to email, probably the way most average folks communicated over the Internet. It wasn’t the first of it’s kind. ICQ holds that title as it was certainly around before AIM, and was eventually bought by AOL. But AIM took off like a storm once AOL released it as a stand alone desktop application. Prior to that AIM was baked into America Online and part of their “Buddy List”. Adoption was wide-spread for AIM and at one point it had the  largest share of the instant messaging market in North America (with 52% of the total US market  reported as of 2006).

But… giants come and go in this industry.  By late 2011 AIM”s market share had collapsed to 0.73%. It had been replaced first by Microsoft Instant Messenger (MSIM) and texting, and then eventually slaughtered by GTalk and Facebook chat.  The once shiny new way of communicating was destroyed by shinier new ways of communicating. As even newer technology emerges like Twitter, and Google+ Hangouts the writing had to be on the wall for AIM developers. According to a NYT article it appears AOL it killing off development and hoping to just milk the remaining profit from it. Without developers AIM won’t stand a chance against the newer contenders… we’re watching a once Internet app megastar walk it’s last steps. On a positive note, I can finally remove the AIM protocol from Digsby.

 

RIP AIM

 

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About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

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