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  • 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!
  • 02.25.08
    AOL Open Mobile Platform work | (0)
    A few weeks ago we announced our new mobile application development platform that will allow developers to write an application once and have it run on over 150 different mobile phone handsets. Jai Jaisimha, vice president of mobile product and technology development at AOL, explains the coming platform which will be open, so that developers can improve it as they like. Continue Reading...
  • 01.16.08
    AOL Finance is Number One work | (0)
    AOL released a new Beta AOL Finance site on November 27th. Techcrunch is reporting that this revamp allowed the Financial tools site to catapult past Yahoo Finance, the long-running Finance Portal Leader, to become the number one Finance site on the web. Congrats guys!