{"id":288,"date":"2006-09-04T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/04\/PresenceButtonsAreCoolWhyCantMessengerHaveThese.aspx"},"modified":"2006-09-04T21:20:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T21:20:06","slug":"presence-buttons-are-cool-why-cant-messenger-have-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/04\/presence-buttons-are-cool-why-cant-messenger-have-these\/","title":{"rendered":"Presence buttons are cool&#8230; why can&#8217;t messenger have these?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Way back in the day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icq.com\/help\/view_faq.php?faq_id=4536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICQ<\/A> allowed people to put a little snippet of HTML anywhere they liked and it would show their presence.&nbsp; That was very cool.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/messenger.yahoo.com\/addpresence.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo can do it too<\/A>. <A href=\"http:\/\/journals.aol.com\/juberti\/runningman\/entries\/2005\/03\/08\/aim-web-presence-indicator-extended\/126\">AOL offers it<\/A>.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/share\/buttons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now Skype is doing it too<\/A>.&nbsp; Why, for the sake of all that is geeky,&nbsp;can&#8217;t we (Microsoft)&nbsp;do this for messenger?&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Wait, I know, I&#8217;ll use a buzz-word: it&#8217;s viral! (it&#8217;ll happen for sure now).<\/P><br \/>\n<P><!--\nSkype 'My status' button\nhttp:\/\/www.skype.com\/go\/skypebuttons\n--><br \/>\n<SCRIPT src=\"http:\/\/download.skype.com\/share\/skypebuttons\/js\/skypeCheck.js\" type=text\/javascript><\/SCRIPT><br \/>\n<A href=\"skype:reevesl?call\"><IMG style=\"BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none\" height=60 alt=\"My status\" src=\"http:\/\/mystatus.skype.com\/balloon\/reevesl\" width=150><\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in the day ICQ allowed people to put a little snippet of HTML anywhere they liked and it would show their presence.&nbsp; That was very cool.&nbsp; Yahoo can do it too. AOL offers it.&nbsp;Now Skype is doing it too.&nbsp; Why, for the sake of all that is geeky,&nbsp;can&#8217;t we (Microsoft)&nbsp;do this for messenger?&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techmicrosoft","tag-techmicrosoft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}