AIM and BeeJive IM Updated With Push Notifications

[Vincent Ferrari]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://twitter.com/BeejiveIM/status/2286903572' target='_blank'>http://twitter.com/BeejiveIM/status/2286903572</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"3.0 for iPhone is finally in the App Store - enjoy!"</em></p><p><img height="358" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1245757053.usr18053.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" width="250" /></p><p>I saw that tweet last night from the BeeJive IM team and hit the iTunes store immediately to update.&nbsp; Push Notifications are the one feature it seems like everyone has really been waiting for and even moreso in the IM world.&nbsp; Truth be told, it works exactly as advertised.&nbsp; When you drop off BeeJive (after enabling Push Notifications, of course), your phone will continue to alert you of incoming messages with a sound, badge, or vibration, or all three if you set it up that way in your settings.</p><p>The one concern was how fast this whole process would work.&nbsp; After you quit BeeJive, the phone will push an update to you.&nbsp; You click the update and the app reloads and puts you back in the conversation.&nbsp; Round trip?&nbsp; Barely noticeable.&nbsp; I guess this is the reason it took so long to get these apps in the App Store; they wanted to make sure they worked as advertised.&nbsp; So far it's pretty obvious that all that work paid off and the BeeJive team and Apple's iPhone folks should get a small pat on the back for finally getting over the hurdle.</p><p>If your IM needs are limited to AIM, AOL released the new version of AIM that supports Push Notifications also.&nbsp; The general buzz is that it works equally flawlessly.&nbsp; You can pick up either of these guys in the App Store.&nbsp; My recommendation?&nbsp; Jump to BeeJive if you need more than AIM access or if you need to juggle multiple AIM accounts.</p><p>Anyone else take a crack at these two?&nbsp; Share your thoughts!</p>

[Islanti]

I've been using Beejive 3.0 quite a bit since yesterday. Some observations:
Every once in a while a push notification seems to get lost. Not sure if this is on Beejive's end but there are new IM messages occasionally when I fire up the app. Annoying but something that'll hopefully get ironed out.
Yahoo IM doesn't seem to be working for me. I know Yahoo made some changes on their end recent (Adium was broken for a while) so this is likely related.
AIM and Facebook seem to work best with the service as a compliment to a desktop app such as Adium. Both allow multiple logins so you can keep your desktop signed into IM. MSN and Yahoo don't support this so you can only be one place or the other.
Occasionally Facebook contacts show up as numbers rather than their display names.
Beejive adds several pieces of text information to the contacts in your address book to track things like multiple IM accounts for a contact and which group(s) you want those contacts in.
Beejive sometimes didn't reflect changes to group membership for various contacts.
You can't change group membership for Facebook contacts.
Mostly minor quibbles that'll likely be resolved in the next release.

[Vincent Ferrari]

Yahoo IM doesn't seem to be working for me. I know Yahoo made some changes on their end recent (Adium was broken for a while) so this is likely related.



This one should already be fixed (according to their Twitter). The other stuff, I'm not sure about.