AOL takes AIM to iPhone Video
AOL takes AIM to iPhone Video Transcript
[ Music ] ^M00:00:03
>> We are so excited to show you what we've been able to create in just 2 weeks with the iPhone SDK. And we're so happy to show you AIM for iPhone. When you start off this application, you're connected immediately to the AIM network and the first thing you see is a list of all of your online buddies. And you can see their status messages and their buddy icons. And what's really remarkable about this is I never developed from a Mac before, never written a single line of object to see and we came here with absolutely no code for the device, just a spec sheet of how to talk to AIM. And we had a live buddy list up and running in about 5 days. And speaking of live, it looks like Mark's taking the day off. So, let's start a conversation with him. So this is actually a live conversation happening over the AIM network and we definitely had -- it was an exciting moment the first time we were able to run AIM on the device and you know, send the message to one of our buddies and get a response back. It was definitely one of those like, you know come here and watch a moment, so... ^M00:01:07 [ Laughter ] ^M00:01:08
>> Now, if you happen to use AIM a lot, if you tend to have a lot of conversations going on at the same time, so we've developed AIM to make it very easy to switch between your active chats just by swiping. ^M00:01:21 [ Applause ] ^M00:01:28
>> And in addition to getting the Buddy List and chat functionality working, we actually had time to go and build a Me Panel where we can update our status and let our friends know what's going on in our lives. And normally you do this -- I love Spore. ^M00:01:44 [ Laughter ] ^M00:01:45
>> And normally, you go in here and you set your state and you set your text to a status message when we thought, wouldn't it be great if we could interact with the phone and literally a dozen lines and code later I can now tap on my buddy icon, bring up the image picker, choose a photo and when I do, it gets uploaded to the AIM network and now every one who has me on their Buddy List will see a new photo to represent me. ^M00:02:10 [ Applause ] ^M00:02:15
>> We are so excited that we were able to do all these in just two weeks with the SDK. And we're really looking forward to working with Apple to bring AIM to the iPhone. Thank you.
>> Thanks.
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