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AIM is still widely used by people on Wall Street, because you can get it running on anything easily, there's no weird federation you have to configure in order to talk to someone at a different company, and most critically it's unencrypted, so auditing/compliance is trivial. Same goes for Yahoo! Messenger. The smart companies saw the writing on the wall about 2 or 3 years ago and started forcing traders over to Bloomberg Messenger but a lot of small shops stayed put. I had a commodities guy ask me last week how to get it running on his iPhone.
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Oct 7, 2017 15:37
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That sounds a lot like those oil traders who used yahoo messenger and panicked when that got canceled (well, replaced with a smartphone-only thing).
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Oct 7, 2017 15:59
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Jimmy Carter posted:AIM is still widely used by people on Wall Street, because you can get it running on anything easily, there's no weird federation you have to configure in order to talk to someone at a different company, and most critically it's unencrypted, so auditing/compliance is trivial. Same goes for Yahoo! Messenger. this might be the first time that i've heard the lack of encryption being touted as a feature
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Oct 7, 2017 16:05
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The_Franz posted:this might be the first time that i've heard the lack of encryption being touted as a feature yeah I was going to say. is unencrypted comm really a big deal? seems like you'd want to have employees to use like telegram or something so if something goes to court you just throw you hands in the air going "well we can't! it's just how the program is there isn't anything else, it's outta our hands  "
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Oct 7, 2017 18:22
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Oct 7, 2017 19:51
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Jimmy Carter posted:AIM is still widely used by people on Wall Street, because you can get it running on anything easily, there's no weird federation you have to configure in order to talk to someone at a different company, and most critically it's unencrypted, so auditing/compliance is trivial. Same goes for Yahoo! Messenger. lol is bloomberg messenger a real thing
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Oct 8, 2017 00:30
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Jimmy Carter posted:AIM is still widely used by people on Wall Street, because you can get it running on anything easily, there's no weird federation you have to configure in order to talk to someone at a different company, and most critically it's unencrypted, so auditing/compliance is trivial. Same goes for Yahoo! Messenger. I was pretty surprised when I worked at a crazy security-obsessed financial firm where all webmail sites were blocked, any type of Pastebin, etc site was blocked, but the in-house developed messaging tool supported AIM. I used to to get very confused when my friend's responses didn't make any sense but then we discovered sometimes the messages would take up to 5 mintues to be delivered. my theory was that they had some legal person manually reviewing and releasing all the messages lol
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Oct 8, 2017 01:28
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:lol is bloomberg messenger a real thing yeah, it's so big that some companies were paying thousands of dollars a month for Bloomberg terminals, just so their people could have access to it. then the big banks realized that was dumb and tried to pool together to come up with their own alternative so they wouldn't have to spend so much money on Bloomberg http://www.businessinsider.com/new-finance-chat-platform-that-wants-to-replace-bloomberg-has-attracted-500000-user-requests-2014-10
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Oct 8, 2017 01:32
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Snapchat is valued at $17 billion. WeChat is valued at $83.6 billion. Imagine if AOL hadn't AOL'd the gently caress out of AIM and it had managed to keep up with the times.
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Oct 8, 2017 04:20
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They had mobile apps out years before snapchat. Not sure what they could have done differently.
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Oct 8, 2017 04:47
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:lol is bloomberg messenger a real thing it's $18k a year per seat I am not kidding
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Oct 8, 2017 05:53
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the best part of that is paying $18k/year for the worst UX in human history. the second-best part is the classifieds section aka Craigslist for rich dudes where people are selling yachts and stuff.
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Oct 8, 2017 21:16
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Bloomberg messenger is in fact a real thing and it's a pretty core feature of Bloomberg terminals.
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Oct 8, 2017 21:54
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If your only use for Bloomberg is the messenger though then you're wasting your money p.much. 18k per terminal is a lot but you get the whole Bloomberg product with that, and that's why it valuable.
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Oct 8, 2017 21:56
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Jimmy Carter posted:the best part of that is paying $18k/year for the worst UX in human history. Ya lol
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Oct 8, 2017 21:59
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Xaris posted:yeah I was going to say. is unencrypted comm really a big deal? seems like you'd want to have employees to use like telegram or something so if something goes to court you just throw you hands in the air going "well we can't! it's just how the program is there isn't anything else, it's outta our hands the joke here is that telegrams chats are unencrypted by default, probably in a quiet nod to russia's and iran's security services
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Oct 8, 2017 22:40
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akadajet posted:idunno i thought telegram was the isis one It's for Isis and furries so either way watchlist
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Oct 9, 2017 21:29
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if you didn't have the Jack Handy quote script in your profile what were you even doing with your life
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Oct 9, 2017 21:58
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:lol is bloomberg messenger a real thing what does your heart tell you youve prolly never seen a bloomberg terminal either
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Oct 10, 2017 02:53
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Jimmy Carter posted:the best part of that is paying $18k/year for the worst UX in human history. if you work for an employer greater than 500 people and one of these aint in the cfo office 
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Oct 10, 2017 02:56
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think I'm gonna try to put together a  aim party. we all get together and someone logs into aim one last time and we can all talk about our best memories & away messages as we wait for the friends list to go grey. hear that door closing one last time
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Oct 10, 2017 03:00
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Rex-Goliath posted:think I'm gonna try to put together a thinking about it like this legit makes me sad
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Oct 10, 2017 03:23
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I've been thinking about AIM every time I hear the door closing noises in PUBG
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Oct 10, 2017 13:13
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Bloomberg messenger makes a load of sense for its highly specific target market
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Oct 10, 2017 17:01
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indigi posted:thinking about it like this legit makes me sad 'ood-BYE
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flakeloaf posted:'ood-BYE 
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