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AOL Announces Revenue Sharing for Open AIM

2008-06-10T04:01:01Z

Last month we called AOL's Open AIM developer platform an "often over-looked social networking platform," but with 80 million users and plans to integrate the AOL Instant Messenger platform into bebo, it might not be over-looked for long -- in fact, it now has 295,000 developers signed up. AOL has been pushing their chat platform hard this year, last month giving out $100,000 for the best AIM-powered applications, and today sweeting the pot further by announcing the availability of AIM Money, a new revenue sharing program.

]]> The program was initially launched in March, and is now available to any Open AIM developer.

"Our goal is to facilitate the world's online, real-time conversations anytime and anywhere," said David Liu, Senior Vice President, AOL People Networks in a press release. "To that end, we're not only giving developers more opportunities and incentives to create meaningful instant messaging-based applications for our millions of users, but we're also bringing more requested features and innovation to the AIM platform to satisfy user needs."

Participating in AOL Money is free, and developers are required to include a display ad widget that runs alongside their web or software based AIM mashup. Payments are made monthly via PayPal. Ads are handled by AOL's "Platform A."

In addition to the wide release of AOL Money, the company is announcing a new version of the AIM software and a corresponding new release of the Open AIM API that takes advantage of the latest features of the client software. Perhaps the most compelling new feature for developers is the addition of "mini applications." Mini apps are widgets that run inside of the AIM client software and can be accessed by users from a bar at the base of their buddy list.

Comment from Shawn ClarkWilt on 2008-06-11

2008-06-11T17:58:55Z

So AIM is sharing their revenue with developers. What about all the 80 million users? What do they get? NADA. Zip. Zilch!

So we're right back to where we were with all the original social apps....those people that create or own it get paid and those that use it don't.

That's why the newest kid on the block has plans to pay all users, even FREE, or upgraded, (and I would guess developers too?) TokSee (Talk-See) is a new social community that has rapidly increased in their Alexa rankings over the last 4 weeks.

They have a new Widget that when placed on a web, blog, or other will allow cross-social-platform contact from one tool. Since it will only be distributed via affiliates, The owners of TokSee will be paying the Free and upgraded uers in both cash and publicaly traded stock, (EICM).

Currently, they have the social network site open. Soon they will have two other types of communication suites for sale. You can pre-purchased now and earn a Founders promotion of company stock. Or, you can wait until later and buy it when they are releases. All of this can be seen at http://HotViralWidget.com.

Once again, why should the social networks keep all the revenue for themselves. TokSee is giving 60% back to the users. Go see for yourselves.

Comment from Shawn ClarkWilt on 2008-06-11

2008-06-11T18:07:04Z

So AIM is sharing their revenue with developers. What about all the 80 million users? What do they get? NADA. Zip. Zilch!

So we're right back to where we were with all the original social apps....those people that create or own it get paid and those that use it don't.

They have a new Widget that when placed on a web, blog, or other will allow cross-social-platform contact from one tool. Since it will only be distributed via affiliates, The owners of TokSee will be paying the Free and upgraded users in both cash and publicallytraded stock, (EICM).

Once again, why should the social networks keep all the revenue for themselves. TokSee is giving 60% back to the users. Go see for yourselves.

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Comment from nile on 2008-06-17

2008-06-17T20:26:02Z

Shawn's the man. You are the man!