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TUAW Tip: Setting up iChat Buddy Updates

When using iChat, do you sometimes feel like you're stuck back in 2005? Away from all the glory and marvels of today's modern social networking? Bring your iChat client into the golden age and sign up for iChat Buddy Updates at AOL's site so you can share your status messages as social-network updates.

Buddy updates transform iChat into a social network tool. You'll see a status feed from all your buddies including all the status changes you might have missed while you were out. You'll learn that your pal went to the gym 90 minutes ago and out to eat 75 minutes ago and into a meeting 4 minutes ago. (Great workout, huh?)

What's more, you can add your Twitter, Flickr and other site feeds into the mix so it's not just a steady stream of "away", "available", "away", "available" notations.

And of course, once you know you're building an audience with this new beta tool, you're sure to start using more interesting status messages than "Work only! Evil overlords on a case-by-case basis" all the time.

Buddy updates are a free service of AIM. Sign in with your iChat user name and ID at the buddy update site.

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oneangrytoast

yea, i agree with link, how does this integrate with ichat exactly?

August 24 2008 at 12:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jonny appleseed

I don't want my friends to know what I'm up to... all the time

August 15 2008 at 9:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mallzombie

this aol owning tuaw is scaring me.

August 14 2008 at 11:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Optimus

No Facebook?

August 14 2008 at 8:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mitchell

Okay, I set it up, but now what?

August 14 2008 at 8:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Link Dupont

Agreed. Do I have to go to the updates page every time? What's the point, when I can just check my friends' twitter & facebook feeds?

August 14 2008 at 10:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe Smith

whoa, new comment system!

August 14 2008 at 7:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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