17 April 2007

Linking to IM services

You’d think there would be an easy reference to this somewhere, but it is spread all over the place. So, here it is for easy reference.

Linking AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and Skype from a webpage … the following goes into the href attribute on the anchor tag.

AOLIM : aim:goim?screenname=AIMScreenName

MSN : msnim:chat?contact=PassportID

Yahoo! : ymsgr:im?user=YahooIDHere

Skype : skype:SkypeUserName

*Note: the MSN link only works in the newer versions of the client.

If you know how to link to screen names on other services shoot me an email and I’ll add it.

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  1. games » Linking to IM services
    April 17th, 2007 at 10:04 am

    [...] Something glorious is about to happen! wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptMSN : msnim:chat?contact=PassportID. Yahoo! : ymsgr:im?user=YahooIDHere. Skype : skype:SkypeUserName. *Note: the MSN link only works in the newer versions of the client. If you know how to link to screen names on other services shoot me … [...]

  2. find » Linking to IM services
    April 17th, 2007 at 11:44 am

    [...] Tonyo UK wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptMSN : msnim:chat?contact=PassportID. Yahoo! : ymsgr:im?user=YahooIDHere. Skype : skype:SkypeUserName. *Note: the MSN link only works in the newer versions of the client. If you know how to link to screen names on other services shoot me … [...]

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