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Dynamic view of AIM chat connections in Google Earth

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AIM Chat Connections on Google EarthThe AOL Instant Messenger developers have had some fun with the AIM API, creating a network link for Google Earth that shows live AIM chat activity. It’s interesting to see where the AIM users are, and who they are chatting with.

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2 Responses to “Dynamic view of AIM chat connections in Google Earth”

  1. Michael said:
    June 3rd, 2007 at 8:41 pm

    It’s funny to see that most lines are only in the U.S. Around the world, Windows Live Messenger is the IM that people like to use. It would be neat if developers of WLM could do something like this with Windows Live Maps. That would be awesome.

  2. Jeff Hester said:
    June 4th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

    Very true, Michael. AIM does not have much of an audience outside of the US. It would be interesting to see a similar network for WLM, Yahoo and some of the others. And even more interesting to overlay them and compare traffic in real time!

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