Hacker News Reader

AOL missed an opportunity to create a cross compatible family of AIM, YIM, ICQ. Different apps with different features, or different interfaces targeted at different audiences, that can all do roughly the same thing.

View on HN

You might want to take a look at adium. It was the bees knees, I used it on mac years ago to manage multiple chats.

Adium.im

Ah, now I miss Meebo again, which was like adium but browser-based.

Im saying the other way around. One protocol, 3 clients for 3 demographics.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com