AOL rolls out AIM Express
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 20, 2008 at 2:08pm
AOL has launched AIM Express, a new Flash-based web version of the AIM service, enabling users to chat with friends and family without needing to install software. It works with the Safari and Firefox web browsers. Features include:
° Tabbed IM conversations: The entire chat experience is contained within one web page. IM conversations open up as separate tabs within the AIM Buddy List, which takes up just one-quarter of the screen, so that multiple windows aren’t open on the desktop.
° Status message: This feature lets users broadcast a personal message to friends on their Buddy List feature regardless of whether or not they’re online. AIM Express users can now see at-a-glance what their friends are doing at any given time.
° Text message mode: AIM Express users can now send text messages by entering the cell phone numbers of friends and family on their AIM Buddy Lists.
° Buddy rollover: Users can mouse over their buddies’ screen names to view buddy icons and current status messages.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
