Back in the day, AOL was notorious for being anti-user and making escape from their walled garden near impossible. Now, there is a new horrible walled garden. And escape is not much easier.
Aol has announced that it will team up with Facebook to link Facebook Chat with Aol’s chat client, AIM. This is largely in response to yesterday’s announcement by Google of it’s new social networking service, Google Buzz, which looks to expand into territory held by Facebook and Twitter. While Aol gains little from it, Facebook [...]
Both AIM and SMS, two technologies of the 1990′s, have run their course. In an age of Androids and iPhones, why should we only be able to have a chat program running in one place? Why should we have to pay to text?
