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streptomycin on June 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012

You can unfortunately no longer log into an AIM account in Gmail and have those contacts appear like in the blog post you linked to. They got rid of that feature a couple years ago.

gcb on June 10, 2012 [–]

Bait and switch.

The "cloud" really replaced "desktop computing"... And by cloud i mean Google and desktop Microsoft. But you knew that.

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