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  • 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!
  • 02.27.08
    Get my Google Gadget! work | Comments Off
    Now you can follow my blog from your Google ig or MyAOL page! The Last Sighting module gives you my last known location from the Stalking Dave map along with either my most recent blog post or status update directly on your page. This is another way to keep up with the latest and greatest from theregoesdave.com. Check out my Official Google Gadget.
  • 02.26.08
    ‘Stalking Dave’ Map Online! work | (1)
    The Stalking Dave map shows you my location in near real time! I'm using cell phone triangulation tool Navizon to upload my current location from my Windows Mobile phone. Then I mash it up with Yahoo Pipes and display it on a Google Map. The map also shows my latest status update or blog post. There are technical details on the Map page if you want to try it yourself. You can just copy my Yahoo Pipes module and map source code and make your own map, but be sure to think about whether you really want that information online. There ...
  • 02.25.08
    Linking Status: Twitter, Facebook and WordPress work | (4)
    I've found a simple way to manage my status across twitter, facebook and wordpress. The cornerstone is really twitter syndication. I use twitter to update my facebook status using their facebook application. Then I used Twitter Tools, a Wordpress Plugin written by Alex King, to link my status and blog together. Twitter Tools plugin updates my blog with a new post every time I update my status and includes it in the rss feed. Plus it updates my status with a link to my blog posts whenever I publish a new article. That was it's automatically sharing my new stories with ...
  • 02.25.08
    AOL Open Mobile Platform work | Comments Off
    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 | Comments Off
    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!
  • 11.15.07
    AOL Rounds out Platform A with Quigo work | Comments Off
    AOL has made what appears to be it's final acquisition in support of the new Third party advertising network, Platform A. Quigo's Adsonar contextual placement technology will allow AOL to place more relevant ads on both our Portal sites and third party advertising partner sites. How does the entire package roll up? Continue Reading...