That's something.

[azurelunatic]

I wonder if any enterprising soul is going to make an IM service that uses LJ IDs as the form of contact? And, if so, how many people would jump on board?

It would be ideally integrated with some LJ client or other, but would not hit LJ for the actual communications stuff, only use it for userid/password authentication, and then, erm, something. Where someone else's computers do the whole "Hi, how are ya? Let's get data from one place to the other!" aspects of the chat.

But it would generate easy-to-post chat logs, with a default setting of Private for the chat logs, no matter what the default setting of the journal was.

Comments

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

I definitely would be on board for that.

[azurelunatic]

Ditto. It would be so convenient, rather than having to remember the IM handles of so many LJers.

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

I think I would kill someone for that. I don't WANT everyone who knows my livejournal userid to be able to AIM me.

[azurelunatic]

The way I'm seeing it, it wouldn't use AIM at all, it would be its own IM service, and like any other IM client, someone could use it, or not.

If you never logged in to the LJIM service, no one would be able to get messages to you. It would have to be able to be set up so you could receive messages from all users, friends only, or any combination of friends filters.