{"id":97,"date":"2008-03-05T11:15:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2008\/03\/05\/open-up-wide\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T11:15:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T16:15:49","slug":"open-up-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2008\/03\/05\/open-up-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"Open up wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I signed into <a href=\"http:\/\/meebo.com\">meebo<\/a> this morning, I got a little pop-up with a blurb about a partnership with AOL. I was immediately intrigued. Unfortunately, muscle memory kicked in too fast, and I closed the box &#8212; the same one that opens <i>every<\/i> time I sign in &#8212; before I even realized I wanted to read it. So I signed out and back in.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, AOL is finally <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.aol.com\/aim\">opening AIM up<\/a> really wide. They&#8217;re talking about full protocol documentation (that&#8217;s the &#8220;oscar&#8221; protocol, not the crappy TOC one), letting people use their own AIM libraries, and full access to all the functionality (voice, video, filesharing, etc.) &#8212; as far as I know, this stuff has never been available before.<\/p>\n<p>I also noticed that you can now convert any AIM screen name into a &#8220;bot&#8221;: the various rate limits are removed (or heightened, at the very least), you can&#8217;t be warned, and are allowed to be added to more people&#8217;s buddy lists. In return, you can&#8217;t initiate conversations.<\/p>\n<p>You <i>know<\/i> what this means.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The screen name crabbychild has been successfully converted to an AIM\u00ae Bot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I signed into meebo this morning, I got a little pop-up with a blurb about a partnership with AOL. I was immediately intrigued. Unfortunately, muscle memory kicked in too fast, and I closed the box &#8212; the same one that opens every time I sign in &#8212; before I even realized I wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-programming","tag-aim-aol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}