28 days ago
Linkorama : Suddenly, AOL Loves Lifestreaming; Buys Socialthing! - makes sense
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5 month ago
plasticbag : Best picture on the Internets secretly plays out the epic battles of large multi-national web companies... - The lightning represents innovation.
veen : Brandon Bird: "Bad Day on the High Sea" - Hands-down the best picture on the entire Internet. (via Cotes)
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6 month ago
wearehugh : AOL “opens” AIM Protocol | isomerica.net - for some definition of "open" that means "closed"
Rod Begbie : AOL "opens" AIM Protocol - That "open" AIM thing announced earlier? Looks to be more of a club to try and force clients like Gaim and Adium to include AOL advertising. Fuckers. [via] #
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6 month ago
Rod Begbie : Open AIM | dev.aol.com - AOL have opened up the AIM protocol for reals, documenting the protocol and encouraging, rather than barely-tolerating, third-party AIM clients. I'd rather deal with XMPP, but this is an interesting step forward. [via] #
deusx : Welcome to Open AIM! | dev.aol.com - "Open AIM continues to lead the way with providing the most powerful and flexible platform to power your communication, collaboration, and social networking experiences. "
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber - You can now log into your AIM or ICQ account using Jabber. They're not yet doing server-to-server, but it's surely just a matter of time. [via] #
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9 month ago
deusx : Qlink Reloaded - Someone reverse-engineered the old Quantum Link (pre-AOL) service and got both classic C64 hardware and modern emulators working with it.
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14 month ago
Andy Baio : Facebook is the new AOL - while Marc points out it's just getting started; they're both right
factoryjoe : Facebook is the new AOL (kottke.org) - "...What happens when Flickr and LinkedIn and Google and Microsoft and MySpace and YouTube and MetaFilter and Vimeo and Last.fm launch their platforms that you need to develop apps for in some proprietary language that's different for ea
Linkorama : Facebook is the new AOL - Fast forward to Facebook 2007 and see similarities: If you want access to their big base of users, develop something in their proprietary language for their people who live in their walled garden.
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17 month ago
wearehugh : News - Pidgin - Important and long-delayed news - GAIM changes to Pidgin after prolonged legal threats from AOL
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17 month ago
Rod Begbie : AOL: Powerpoint paralysis - Valleywag - New ammunition for next time I do a talk on how not to use PowerPoint. [via] #
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plasticbag : AOL Europe are looking for a Social Media / User Experience Intern - Could be a really interesting opportunity for someone who wants to get into this whole territory, and would be working with early UK weblogger Meg Pickard of NotSoSoft/Meish fame
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Rod Begbie : Listening Post: Winamp Adds Remote Access, Dashboard Widgets - New version of WinAmp (Remember them? It's like an iPod, except you can't carry it around with you. Ask your parents) includes "remote listening" -- Stream music from your home PC to wherevers. Since Apple kept disabling hacks that did this with iTunes [via] #
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23 month ago
cameron : AOL sued over Web search data release - At least $5k per person in damages being sought. I wish I had used AOL Search. Is it too late?
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23 month ago
jkottke : Surprisingly good list of the top 10 Web 2.0 losers - Surprisingly good list of the top 10 Web 2.0 losers. It's too early to pass judgement on Netscape (the site has shot to the top of Google search results for current events keywords because of the site's high PageRank) and SixApart's inclusion is wrong. Th
znarf : Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers » Wisdump #
Nelson Minar : Web 2.0 losers - I disagree with a couple, but some thoughtful criticism (via kottke)
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24 month ago
Linkorama : MySpace is the AOL 2.0 - A walled garden of people?
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jimray : Slate discovers another AOL search record - "okes about dick cheney but not george bush" Brilliant
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jimray : The seven ways that people search the Web - Really fascinating, well written breakdown of the AOL leak
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jimray : A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 - New York Times - No. 4417749 conducted hundreds of searches over a three-month period on topics ranging from “numb fingers†to “60 single men†to “dog that urinates on everything.â€
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Rod Begbie : AOL Search "Anonymous" User 711391 - Fucking hell, this is gutwrenching -- The story of a woman's affair told through search strings. Names are included too. "i took cyber sex to a physical level and it was a mistake", "how can you tell if your spouse put spyware on your computer", "pictur [via] #
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25 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : AOL Search Log Profiles - AOL Search Log Profiles: "28963 quickly amends the search query to read “freee porn sites”. (Two days later, 28963 shows a sudden interest in genital warts.)"
Nelson Minar : AOL user profiles - What you can learn about people based on their search logs
Rod Begbie : AOL Search Log Profiles - Your guide to some of the interesting folks you can meet inside the AOL search data leak. "1045042 is researching the relationship between Republicans and terrorism." [via] #
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Ap(A)oLogy - "This was a screw-up, and we're angry and upset about it. It was an innocent enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and if it had been, it would have been stopped in an
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25 month ago
Linkorama : AOL Proudly Releases Private Data - a serious error, but there needs to be a way to enable researchers too
Nelson Minar : AOL data release - Stupid, stupid, stupid
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Linkorama : AOL reSearch - AOL public wiki, where private user data was published
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : AOL's customer retention manual revealed - "You gotta love it!" ...or else [via]
Rod Begbie : AOL Retention Manual Revealed - Consumerist - Consumerist get their paws on the scripts & tools used by AOL to try to keep their users from cancelling. "If you stop and think about it, every Member that calls in to cancel their account is a hot lead. Most other sales jobs require you to create your [via] #
Simon Willison : AOL Retention Manual Revealed - 37 signals take note - That's why AOL developed, "Keep It Real"...a set of principles that will drive a world-class Member experience...
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