What is Web AIM?
Web AIM brings the core AIM experience to the web, empowering developers to create mashups or rich internet applications integrated with AIM.
The AIM® service is one of the largest online communities in the world and leads the U.S. market as America’s favorite real time communications service. You can take advantage of this social network by seamlessly integrating presence and communication capabilities directly into your website. Web AIM makes it easy to catalyze your online product or service by leveraging the power and familiarity of the Buddy List.
Wouldn't it be great if you could:
- Make it easy for your users to communicate with other AIM users directly on a web page without leaving the site?
- Show your users a list of all of their buddies or buddies that are also members of your site?
- Show information about your users such as Away Messages and AIM Profiles, right on a web page?
With Web AIM, you can. Web AIM provides standards-based APIs to access the Buddy List® feature, the sending and receiving of IMs, rich presence information, and more. We've even provided a few widgets that use Web AIM to help you get started.
What do I need to get started?
- Register for the Web AIM Deploy key.
- Read the Web AIM Tutorials to learn how to integrate the code into your website.
Need more information?
- Learn more in our FAQ.
- See what others have to say in our Web AIM Forum.
- Check out our Server API, JavaScript API, CSS, and Web AIM Flash/Flex/AIR references.