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  • 04.02.08
    AOL Launches Mobile Gaming with Cellufun work | (0)
    This week AOL launched a mobile web gaming portal in conjunction with Cellufun. These are WAP-based mobile games for the http://wap.aol.com/games targeting the casual gamer. Games include Call of the Pharaoh, Space Wars, Ice Fishing, and many popular card and board games. This is one of the first instances I've seen of ad-supported games on the mobile phone. I think it will get even more interesting as mobile web browsers become provide better AJAX and Flash support, but this is an excellent start.
  • 03.26.08
    Thomas Vander Wal Speaks at AOL work | (0)
    This afternoon I had a chance to listen to a talk by Thomas Vander Wal, the innovator that coined the term folksonomy circa 1994. He speaks on social media and two of the key factors that he looks at are folksonomy and circles of sociability and does workshops diving in depth on a particular service or platforms. Thomas does a really good job of breaking down the components of any social media site, whether a social network, bookmarking service or social news. The most fundamental concept of social media is what he calls 'object oriented sociality.' That is the ...
  • 03.19.08
    AOL MyMobile Heading for Public Beta work | (2)
    The MyMobile application is AOL's answer to the Yahoo Go mobile application that allows you to access many services from one downloaded application. It runs on Windows Mobile Smartphones and Pocket PCs and gives you access to your email, AIM and many other services. AOL Mymobile is currently in private beta and may allow public testing as soon as the next few weeks. The interface is fairly similar to Yahoo Go and you switch services by rotating through a menu at the bottom. MyMobile includes the following services: AIM, Mail, Contacts, Mapquest, Search, Cityguide, Pictures, Sports, Weather and News. This is ...
  • 03.13.08
    AOL Acquires Bebo for $850 MM work | (0)
    <3 This morning AOL CEO Randy Falco announced that AOL is acquiring Bebo, the third largest social network behind Myspace and Facebook. With over 3.5 monthly unique viewer, Bebo is the number one social network in the UK and New Zealand. Bebo resides in a space between Myspace and Facebook in that it is inclusive of teens and college students. It also strikes a nice balance between the rigid design of Facebook and the garbled mess of Myspace in look and feel. Bebo allows users to skin their profiles in order to add their own ...
  • 03.10.08
    Pixnay: Hot-or-Not Style Battles to the Death work | (1)
    Last week the AIM product design team launched a new site called Pixnay. The idea of a social voting site like Hot or Not has been around for a while, but this application takes a slightly different approach and makes the process more social. Pixnay shows you two pictures at a time and asks you to vote between the two of them. This gives more context to the votes and they did a fantastic job designing it. When you click on one of the two pictures you'll see a blue circle drawn around it. Then you can also see the user ...
  • 03.06.08
    AIM: First Native iPhone IM Client work | (0)
    Today AOL announced a Native and fully supported AIM client, the first officially supported IM client for the iPhone. This comes on the heels of the OpenAIM 2.0 announcement yesterday. Native applications mean no more breaking your phone or having to stay online to receive instant messages. The engineers have been working around the clock to release this application in time for todays press conference and demonstrated a live chat on stage at the iPhone SDK release press conference. I'll get screenshots and a review out as soon as I can get my hands on them!
  • 03.05.08
    AIM with Open Arms work | (1)
    This morning AOL is announcing the release of OpenAIM 2.0 to the developer community. Developers will now have access to a number of AOL provided libraries and documentation on our proprietary OSCAR protocol. This will make it easier than ever to integrate AIM into both desktop clients and web sites. In addition, we also announced the OpenAIM Developer Challenge through Topcoder. We've been a sponsor of their annual collegiate challenge, but this is the biggest Topcoder Event we've sponsored yet!