# AIM and ICQ coming to Central

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aim-and-icq-coming-to-central/35914>\
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**Created:** [November 19, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aim-and-icq-coming-to-central/35914 "2003-11-19T16:39:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aim-and-icq-coming-to-central/35914/1 "2003-11-19T16:39:39Z")

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from C|Net:

> AOL will provide to Macromedia Central its application programming interfaces and development tools for AIM and ICQ. Developers can then integrate the IM software’s real-time communications and online presence features into their products.

Read more here:  
[http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5109001.html](http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5109001.html)

This opens the doors a little for central. Now, central still seems pretty useless. This could be an indication to a “killer app” that makes people actually want to use it.