AIM adds further social networking features; borrows from Twitter and Facebook
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AIM 6.5 introduces "status" updates, whereby AIM users can broadcast a status message which displays whether they are currently online or not. While the status message builds on a previous AIM feature, the "away message", it's also clearly a nod in the direction of the micro-blogging service Twitter, or Facebook's status functionality. In addition, AIM users will also be able to update their status using a mobile phone via SMS, again a feature borrowed from Twitter.
Another new feature is AIM Tunes, a plug-in (built using AIM's open API ) which lets users stream non-DRM music stored on their own PC to other AIM users on their buddy list. AOL claim that they do this in a way which respects copyright regulation -- presumably through an Internet radio license or paying Internet radio-metered royalties.
Both AIM Profiles and AIM Dashboard sound a lot like AOL's previous AIM-based social network, AIM Pages, so I'm not sure if it's simply a rebranding exercise or if they're actual new products.
Finally, AOL is to introduce AIM Photos, in which AIM users will be able to share photos which can be tagged with the names of their AIM "buddies" as well as be commented on. Another feature that sounds distinctly Facebook-esque.