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Member since April 29, 2005

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    Beth Richards

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    United States of America

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  1. Review - AOL Instant Messenger for Windows

    0.1.12 Beta (Apr 29, 2005)

    I was hoping to see an open standards protocol, specifically SIMPLE, under the hood in this beta but no such luck. I could handle the ads if we were stepping away from the closed network. These guys [AIM, MSN, Skype, Yahoo] could take some lessons from ineen.com. It may be clunky today but at least it provides s himmer of hope that open standards may actually prevail.

  2. Comment - AOL Testing Next Generation AIM Client

    0.1.12 Beta (Apr 29, 2005 - 10:11 AM)

    So they are rebuilding the client from the ground up yet they are using the old protocol? What gives? Why the heck are they not going with SIMPLE since It's based on SIP which is what I assume they are using for their VoIP ? If they stick with their existing protocol wouldn't that be much like putting lipstick on a pig?