AIM Blast…A new way to Communicate
Last night we released a new beta feature for AIM called AIM Blast. AIM Blast is a brand new feature that allows our users to have a group conversation, or send a broadcast IM to multiple people at once, without having to set up a bot or a chat room.
AIM Blast is groundbreaking functionality for the AIM Service, plus…
*No download required
*Fast & Easy setup of Blast groups at the AIM Blast website
*Access to your Blast groups anywhere and everywhere you can sign in to the AIM Service (including AIM Express, and any Open AIM services)
For more info on AIM Blast please check out the FAQ.
Since this is a beta product, we really would love to get feedback on this feature so we can fix any issues or complaints, and of course we never mind positive feedback as well. 
June 29th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
It’s great to see this sort of feature in AIM!
One major request: For invitations, could there be an option for the blast group to be self-invite? I can imagine wanting some to be completely open and others to require a group member to approve, but anything that allows people to join themselves would be great.
(It would be a lot easier to put the group’s name on a board in the lunch room for people to sign up for than to try having everybody contact me and ask to add them)
Sadly, my client seems to want to send messages to “\[groupname\]” instead of just “[groupname]” but hopefully they’ll fix that.
Keep up the great work!
August 29th, 2008 at 10:05 am
This is awful, you get invitations from people who you don’t have listed even though you have blocks up on aim. Each time you sign on aim you get the same invitation. I have blocks up for a reason. Any program that over rides an individuals preferences is not good and will only be exploited my aim terrorist. I’ve tried for two days to block this crap with no luck. Thanks for a communist program.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Please fix AIM Blast so that the preferences can be set to restrict invite privileges to Admins only. Right now you can restrict invite privileges to Admins only, but, it disables the normal members ability to send text to the chat! Also I would like to see a feature to block everyone but admins from seeing the groups user list that currently shows up on everyone’s buddylist. There is a feature to disable/enable, but again, it restricts members from sending text into the chat!
So, this is definitely what needs to be worked on:
1. An option for the owner to disable/enable the list of names that currently shows up on everyone’s buddylist. (this feature reportedly annoys members and is a privacy issue, as people have complained of being spammed and bothered by other people in the group)
2. Owner option to restrict invite privileges to admins only, allowing regular group members to still be able to type in the chat, but unable to invite unauthorized members.