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Articles tagged "AOL"
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Thu, 26 July 2012
What Would Make AOL Relevant Again (Not Refreshed Email)
As attention fades for Yahoo's latest CEO switch, we turn to another Internet pioneer -- AOL. That company has a new version of its…
Thu, 21 June 2012
AOL, Yahoo Mail Users Are Energy Hogs
In an exceedingly odd metric, a new survey reveals that Yahoo Mail users consume far more power in their residences than do Gmail users. But…
Fri, 13 January 2012
Q&A: Former HuffPost CTO Paul Berry on Scaling to 1.7 Billion Pageviews and What's Next For Mobile
Paul Berry, the Huffington Post's CTO since 2007, is one of the best regarded tech leaders in New York. After helping build one of the…
Wed, 12 October 2011
AOL's Upcoming MapQuest Social Network
We've been watching with some interest - shall we say - as AOL attempts to secretly prepare for a MapQuest social network called mqVibe…
Thu, 29 September 2011
AOL Building MapQuest Social Network
Something cool is coming to your neighborhood. AOL appears to be preparing us for some kind of neighborhood-based social network built…
Wed, 14 September 2011
Is AOL Announcing a Social Network?
Judging by trademark applications and domain name registrations, it appears that AOL is preparing to announce a social networking site…
Tue, 1 February 2011
I Worked on the AOL Content Farm & It Changed My Life
Five years ago this week I began writing for AOL's blog network Weblogs Inc. I wrote 5 technology news stories each day and was paid a mere…
Thu, 2 September 2010
Google and AOL Renew Search Agreement for Another 5 Years
Google and AOL just announced that they have renewed their global search alliance for another five years. Google will continue to power…
Thu, 8 July 2010
MapQuest Embraces Open Source
AOL's MapQuest announced today that it is launching an open-source mapping initiative, beginning with the U.K. and then heading to the…
Tue, 18 May 2010
Yahoo Grabs Associated to Increase Content
Yahoo announced today that it is buying Associated Content, a user-generated media company with 380,000 contributors and 16 million…
Wed, 28 April 2010
AOL Sells ICQ for $187.5 Million
Once upon a time, ICQ was synonymous with instant messaging. While ICQ doesn't have this kind of clout anymore, it is still very popular…
Wed, 17 February 2010
Will AOL Use Seed to Fuel Its Hyperlocal News Site?
AOL is continuing with its push to create content on a massive local scale, according to a story by the Silicon Valley Insider. The story…
Wed, 10 February 2010
Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login
Facebook and AOL announced last night a partnership that will integrate a user's Facebook friends into their AOL Instant Messenger. The…
Sun, 22 November 2009
Poll: AOL Reveals New Branding, Love it or Loathe It?
Late last night, AOL revealed a sneak peek at their new branding campaign for their soon-to-be standalone content-focused business. The…
Thu, 22 October 2009
Gmail Users are Young, Female; AOL Users are Older
Social media data company Rapleaf has just completed a comprehensive study involving the demographics and behavior of webmail users. In…
Mon, 5 October 2009
Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Others Also Hit by Phishing Attack
Yesterday's phishing attack in which several thousand Hotmail username and password combinations were leaked to the web now appears to be…
Tue, 15 September 2009
AIM Debuts Lifestream Twitter Client
AOL just announced AIM Lifestream. The service allows AIM users to check and update their Facebook, Twitter and AIM lifestreams from an…
Tue, 28 April 2009
AOL Deploys Socialthing Across the Web
Today, AOL announced that they're deploying Socialthing for Websites across the company's network of 75+ MediaGlow web properties. The…
Thu, 30 October 2008
AOL Redesigns and Opens Up a Little Bit More
When Google radically changed its iGoogle homepage a little while ago, many of its users were up in arms about these changes. By updating…
Thu, 14 August 2008
Is Lifestreaming Going Mainstream? AOL Set to Snag SocialThing!
While there are many popular lifestreaming services out there such as FriendFeed and Profilactic, SocialThing! can be argued to be the…
Fri, 1 August 2008
AOL is Getting Serious About Lifestreaming: Buys SocialThing
SocialThing, a lifestreaming/social aggregation site, has been acquired by AOL, TechCrunch reports. We currently have no information about…
Mon, 9 June 2008
AOL Announces Revenue Sharing for Open AIM
Last month we called AOL's Open AIM developer platform an "often over-looked social networking platform," but with 80 million users and…
Mon, 19 May 2008
AOL Announces Open AIM Dev Contest Winners
AOL's Open AIM is an often over-looked social networking platform, mainly because instant messaging isn't thought of these days as a form of…
