BASEKetball’s vision of sponsoring and naming every arena, stadium and field, is one step closer to becoming reality. The Dallas Cowboys have sold the naming rights to the implosion of the old Cowboys Stadium to Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. While I am sure no one will miss the old stadium, no one will forget Kraft for lending their name to this ridiculous event.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live last night AIM was used in a skit called the Handsome Men’s Club. Â It was great to see Ethan Hawke, Patrick Dempsey (“McDreamy”) and Ted Danson using AIM’s video chat.
Thanks to the team at ABC and Jimmy Kimmel Live, it was great working with you guys to get this set up!
Obviously I stopped updating this blog…between the stuff I was working on, which was super secretive and WordPress doldrums, I move my blog over to the Tumblr platform. You can find my blog at: http://blog.gregsmind.com
Link: Home of the (UNOFFICIAL) SXSW Torrents
In grand SXSW tradition, you can now grab all the publicly available showcase music on the SXSW site in one giant torrent, instead of downloading the songs one by one. Convenience at its finest.
Check it out here.
Jackie’s latest book is out. You can order it on Amazon: http://bit.ly/cEipla. If you have children or teens who are diagnosed with ADHD she has two excellent books to help you:
Let’s Go Orange, now the #1 ranked team in the nation. The Cuse is peaking at the right time, and the all Orange-clad crowd on Saturday was awesome to see.
Link: AT&T @SXSW, don’t let me down this year!
Wondering if AT&T can handle the number of iPhone users this year at SXSW? Â It seems like this year they are at least acknowledging there is the potential for problems, so they are addressing them right away.
Trying out a new blogging platform called Tumblr (which is not new, but new for this blog). Hopefully this makes life much easier.
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New AIM Logo
We pushed live a new AIM build last night that sets the stage for some good things in the near future. The first change that I am glad to share is that the AIM Running Man is back. When I started on AIM almost 10 years ago, the running man was the icon for our messaging app and remained so until 2004, now he’s back. You will see the new running man icon all over the place including OpenAIM, aim.com and AOL properties.
AIM 6.9 also takes your AIM buddy feed to the next level by replacing the orange feed indicator icon with the “favicon” of the most recent update. For example, if I were to upload a picture to Flickr, instead of seeing the old orange icon next to my screen name, you will now see the Flickr favicon.
New Feed Indicator
AIM 6.9 also supports better ways of finding friends and adding new connections in your buddy list via Add Buddy and our first time user experience.
For OpenAIM developers wanting to build plugins for the latest release, we will be doing a new Open AIM SDK in the very near future with the latest API additions that coresponds to the AIM 6.9 release.
There have been a few newsworthy items over the past week surounding the OpenAIM program. Seeing articles titled “AOL’s IM Opens Up While Microsoft and Yahoo Hunker Down” makes me feel really good about what I have been building over the past 10 years. We are almost at OpenAIM 2.0’s one year anniversary, and we continue to innovate in the space where both developers and consumers are going to benefit from AIM’s openness.
In the above article I mentioned, the article discusses Meebo (an OpenAIM 2.0 launch partner) launching Facebook Chat integration inside Meebo.com. OpenAIM gets a nice nod a couple of paragraphs later when the discussion moves to messaging services opening up.
Gradually AOL’s AIM network began to get in on the action, first with Open AIM 1.0 (which really wasn’t open at all, as it was primarily concerned with plugins and status updates) and later in 2008 with Open AIM 2.0. The second iteration of Open AIM offers third party web services like Meebo and native clients like Adium a sanctioned way to access the network.
We want to continue to reach out to the development community to give them the best in breed tools so AIM users have the best experience online whether it be via our flagship AIM Windows client or on iChat or on Meebo.