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AIM Fight - Less and Less Simultaneous Usage

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Is it me? Am I less popular and connected? Is it AIM? Is it less used now because of social networking and texting? I don’t know.

What I do know is that when I fought a friend today on AIM Fight, I had about 440,000 connections and was ranked the 17,000th or so most connected individual on the network. I am still top 5 percent of all users, I am proud to say.

Five years ago, I would be ranked at over 1 million connections.Either my friends are dying off in record number; people have deleted me from their buddy lists; or AIM is losing simultaneous usage which is very sad to see.

Go to AIM Fight and duel me. I am Leonsis. Use your AIM screen name and take me on. Go for it! I think you could probably beat me now.

Dumb and Dumber

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
I usually don’t respond to snide dumb remarks but decided to do so here. Check out these offensive, uninformed and dumb comments.
 
In regards to AOL access, the company built the world’s largest network. It supported 36 million subscription customers and had more than 10 million people online at any given time. It is called simultaneous usage.
 
Even today with AIM and all other products plus AOL subscribers, the company has online - at any one time - millions and millions of customers.
 
Go to AIMFight.com as an example and see how many people are online right now connected to you just via AIM. Go fight me. Type in “Leonsis” and then your AIM screen name and see how you do. 

Rip-off and a Compliment

Friday, May 1st, 2009

As I noted, Twitter is a great product but a derivative of the original AIM status update environment.

And 6 years ago, we launched AIM Fight. Click here to play.

And now here is an AIM Fight rip-off for Twitter. Click here. See any resemblance?

Everything old is new again.

But I don’t want to hear about how cool and innovative this stuff is. As a grizzled old media vet said to me, ”Same crap - different bag.”