Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Suddenly, AOL Loves Lifestreaming; Buys Socialthing!  —  AOL is getting into the lifestreaming business.  Like Friendfeed or Facebook’s News feeds, it recently launched AIM BuddyUpdates, which lets AIM users keep up with what their instant-messaging buddies are doing on social services such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Digg.