One of many things planned in the relaunch has been revealed.  AIM now has APIs.

There are almost 70M AIM users.

Think about what you could do with that?

- connect AIM to Skype and create some sort of universal conversation manager.  Oooops - hmmm - maybe that’s restricted! (Susan Mernit has some comments on this!)

- send important updates, alerts, data, blog posts, microcontent anything - through the AIM infrastructure to anyone of those 70M people

- AIM has a huge eco-system surrounding it - so mobile, presence management, tie into all sorts of commerce

- AIM interop is what Microsoft and Google wanted.  If they want it - perhaps you might find it interesting - as well.  Just the access to all those people shoudl be enough to do something!

Congrats to the team for shipping!  Controversy is already swelling up around this.  They’re still restricting the notion of a ‘multi-headed client’ - even though that’s exactly what Google is doing.

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