AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber
Proprietary protocols are things from yesterday. Today, Opensource technologies are taking over the world! AOL / ICQ has just launched a test server using XMPP, an open technology. This means that you’ll soon be able to talk to your ICQ / AIM contacts via Jabber. Google has already started using it. So who’s next? MSN!
AOL seems to be making its ICQ and AIM services compatible with XMPP: xmpp.oscar.aol.com PS: it’s still buggy and is only claimed to work in Exodus and Coccinella. It works in nearly all Jabber clients. But that is probably because the server is overloaded.
There has been a vivid discussion today on the Jdev MUC room about this. It looks like Jabber will be the solution which will rule the future of all messengers.
You can try to log in to ICQ with the username icqnumber@aol.com on server xmpp.oscar.aol.com on port 5222. TLS is required.
Let’s see what happens in the next few months with Jabber.
You can find Jabber Hosting for your Domain on Flosoft.biz . You’ll probably be able to chat to your ICQ contacts soon!
UPDATE: AIM seems to work too!
UPDATE2: There is a tutorial here on how to setup your Jabber Client
UPDATE3: I just recieved this picture from jjkobra. It works with Gajim! 
UPDATE4: It seems to work in Psi too!
UPDATE5: A comment by AOL.
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55 Responses to “AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber”
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Aadaam
17. January, 2008 at 11:39 pmAs for the MSN part:
www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/10/31/messenger-9-gtalk-integration-messenger-api-new-client-for-mac-os-x-news-unveiled-at-georgia-tech-presentation-whew.aspx
And install a pyicq-t on flosoft.biz in the meantime
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Aaron Griffin
17. January, 2008 at 11:50 pmConfirmed working in gajim on win32. This is an amazing find, thank you.
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berdan
18. January, 2008 at 1:19 amWorks just fine in Adium on OS X as well. One client I’m sending to is seeing html tags in the messages though.
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Matej
18. January, 2008 at 1:58 amAlthough host finds in DNS two servers available (64.12.91.163, 205.188.104.130), only the first one works.
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otaznik
18. January, 2008 at 2:45 amGAJIM 0.11.4 on linux working, but….some things are really fun. (for example the nick i see as mine is changing randomly – but just at ICQ, other account works well)
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Eliot
18. January, 2008 at 5:24 amHoly cow. Only 8 years late to the party. Still, I never thought I’d hear this news.
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churchyard
18. January, 2008 at 7:07 amGreat! I’m just wandering how did they discovered it (I mean stpeter, Kev and so)
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lamib
18. January, 2008 at 7:42 amToo bad I don’t have any AIM/ICQ contacts
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peter frank
18. January, 2008 at 2:05 pmIt seems like the major websites are all starting open source technologies, including yahoo and google, i found a blog for all the sites that have started using open soruce, www.opentopix.com/topic/tech-news/aol-adopting-xmpp-aka-jabber
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Nemo
18. January, 2008 at 2:38 pmFinally, people are getting the brain to work back.
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Maledictus
18. January, 2008 at 2:41 pmWill it be possible to send messages to icq contacts from another jabber server?
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Shawn555
18. January, 2008 at 3:01 pmwait… icq still exists?
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Peter
18. January, 2008 at 3:21 pmIt was always possible to add ICQ contacts over a Jabber server if the server supported an ICQ transport (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber-Transport). But its good to see AOL offering it!
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poldi
18. January, 2008 at 3:23 pmHi.
THX for the info
Anyone else getting warnings about self signed certificate?
fingerprint:
C8:99:FA:40:54:CC:0E:58:C9:BD:2B:AE:B6:47:65:A8:61:61:7E:7F -
axet
18. January, 2008 at 3:35 pmpidgin work fine! pidgin.im
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Nekuia
18. January, 2008 at 4:35 pmsameplace.cc work better…
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IdahoPotato
18. January, 2008 at 6:09 pmBefore you declare Mission Accomplished! – there seems to be a sip.oscar.aol.com, and my SIP client can connect there as well.
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meandcat
18. January, 2008 at 7:13 pmseems like this is what we are seeing here:
www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=dev&d2=assembly&d3=det_aolXmppGateway
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Joe Hildebrand
18. January, 2008 at 8:35 pmThe roster items that are being returned are not valid.
<item xmlns=”" jid=”…
the empty namespace will break clients that are namespace correct.
17. January, 2008 at 11:17 pm
I hope soon that every body will start using Jabber.
Let’s fight, to win!
Long life to Jabbber.