BuddyGopher

BuddyGopher is closed!
Visit our development blog for more information.

BuddyGopher simultaneously checks the away messages of your favorite AIM® buddies,
and saves their old ones to make away message blogs.

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Press images: USA Today, Washington Post, Winston-Salem Journal.

Nick Gray's home page, Ryan Farley's home page



Anil Dash gave us a nice shout-out in his 2007 think-piece on Twitter - This idea of adding persistence to instant messaging and status messages is extremely powerful, whether it's LiveJournal's celebrated "current mood" status, or the BuddyGopher service, which was an extraordinarily prescient service that provided a bot which would log all of your buddies' away messages. The service became a casualty of AOL's (now largely remedied) closed IM platform., but today, AOL itself even provides some views of this kind of IM status data on the AIM site.