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AOL's AIM instant message service is now letting users read Facebook news feeds and send status updates back to the site. Users can now read their friends' status updates, view their photo albums, comment on them, and leave a status update from within AIM. The move follows AOL's earlier moves to create a new breed of social services, including a Meebo-style chat toolbar that lets you talk to friends on Web sites around the web. More recently, AOL released versions of its desktop app that let you read information from Facebook and Twitter but not send information back.

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