AOL Opens Blog Service to IM Users

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By Matt Hicks, eWeek.com
May 5, 2005

Users of AOL's popular instant messaging services can now turn their chats into Weblogs.

America Online Inc. on Thursday opened its AOL Journals blog-publishing service to members of AOL Instant Messenger members, letting them create and manage blogs using their AIM screen names.

By tying AOL Journals to AIM, AOL is expanding the blogging service to its 36 million active IM users. AOL Journals previously was only available to AOL subscribers.

AIM users also can submit posts to their AOL Journals blogs through IM. When they are logged in to the screen name associated with a blog, they can send a message to AOL Journals in order to have it published, AOL officials said.

Source: eWeek.com