I get asked how to do the presence awareness icons on my blog
Tags :Announcement
I do mine for all the IM services on the left
through a specific server/host. It makes life easy to have a standard
icon set for look and feel. But AOL went a recent step further with
the new AIM
Presence service. It actually
covers the icon for online/offline/1 way mobile/idle/away quite nicely
and very tiny. They dump the small code out for you to toss into
you blog or website after you register (basically providing your online
name so it can dump the code to you for cut and paste). Now the other
part is that there is a key that gets generated that expires after a certain
amount of time.
After registering there is an Advanced
Developers area for an XML interface with more metadata. I was thinking
about this and it would be cool to have the online status next to people
in my blog listing too. Hmmmm.
But be aware of this last part if you restrict
who sees you to your Buddy List
Why can't visitors
to my Web site see my online availability?
If you have chosen to utilize the Allow
List feature in AIM, other users will not be able to see you online unless
they're on that list. Check your privacy settings to make sure you aren't
blocking anyone unintentionally.
If you are online but invisible, other
users will see you as offline
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On Thursday, October 20th, 2005 by Chris Miller
