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AIM would be nicer if the service was based on xmpp and allowed federation with other services..

why do these walled gardens still exist? email figured it out 30 years ago: user@domain

Perhaps an aggregator like Meebo or maybe Adium will get us halfway there.

Beejive 3.0 works great!

No, because that is solving the problem from the wrong direction. There is no reason there needs to be all these seperate communication protocols for essentially the same method of communication.

Do we need another skype or facebook coming out with their own proprietary instant messaging scheme, while perfectly good protocols exist.

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