Comments on: AIM buddy statistics

Question: AIM buddy statistics

nervestaple — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:17:17 -0800

A while ago, there was a useful website that would provide online/offline statistics for all your AIM buddies, so you could see when they were on most frequently. It had interesting graphs it could make as well. Does anyone know if this or another similar web app is still around?

By: nilihm

nilihm — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:31:35 -0800

I don't know of such an application. What I can tell you is that Pidgin, formerly GAIM, includes the optional "Contact Availability Prediction" plugin. It provides response likelihoods based on time of day, activity, etc. I'm not sure that it'll be developed any further as it was a Google Summer of Code project.

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:13:29 -0800

The old site you might be thinking of is the creepily named IM Watching, which did pretty much what you describe. However, I haven't visited it in years, so I can't tell you if the fact that it's not responding right now is a temporary thing or whether it's been gone for a while. (Google has a cache of it from April of this year, though.)

By: nervestaple

nervestaple — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:01:58 -0800

IM Watching is it! Any alternatives that don't require me to leave GAIM signed on?

By: nervestaple

nervestaple — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:41:23 -0800

Looking further, IM Watching appears to be down for good. I downloaded pidgin, but I can't find the Contact Availability plugin anywhere!

By: nilihm

nilihm — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:46:07 -0800

You can activate the plugin by checking off "Contact Availability Prediction" under Tools>Plugins (also accessible via ctrl-U). The plugin is fifth from the top when sorted in ascending alphabetical order.

By: anaelith

anaelith — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:11:00 -0800

nilihm: What OS, Pidgin version, etc.? I finally (yeah, I know) moved to Pidgin from gaim, and I can't find it either after looking through all of the plug-ins installed, so I'm starting to wonder if it may be OS dependent, or only in betas, or something. I also can't seem to find a downloadable version anywhere on the 'net, just references to it, and no plug-in section on the new Pidgin site....

By: nilihm

nilihm — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:21:22 -0800

Pidgin: 2.0.1
OS: Ubuntu 7.04