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Archive for the ‘AOL’ Category

May 13th, 2008

Google Friend Connect Plugs Sites into Social Networks

Mere days after the announcements of MySpace Data Availability and Facebook Connect, Google comes out with a lighter but wider social network data portability initiative. Last night at the Googleplex saw the announcement of Google Friend Connect, a set of widgets that lets any site plug itself into its readers’ social graphs on multiple social […]

By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

February 25th, 2007

Yahoo MSN and Dell Grow Digg Like

You’d think if people were going to copy the idea behind Digg, they would have done it much sooner than now. You know, people like Netscape, who jump in there quick and really rip something off.
Profy.com has a post about Yahoo!, MSN and Dell beginning to offer services for their users to rate various resources […]

By Jason -- 2 comments

February 14th, 2007

Google Loses Belgium Copyright Battle

Should Google and any other search engine for that matter have the right to grab any content off the web and include it in their search results? My opinion is that if it’s published on the web, then yes. I’m not sure what the problem is. Erik Schonfeld seems to agree on the Business 2.0 […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

February 13th, 2007

E-mail Trio: Gmail, Yahoo!, Live/Hotmail

I’ve been in my main three webmail accounts quite a bit here over the past few days and I’ve noticed that there’s becoming more of a gap between all three than a convergence.
There was a point where I was getting ready to give up my Yahoo! Mail account for my Gmail one as my primary. I […]

By Jason -- 2 comments

January 5th, 2007

Put Your Cleats On Google!

In a recent SitePoint Tribune E-mail, one of the articles talks about how Google has started their decent down a “slippery slope” with doctored search results.
For a search engine to provide as its top free “result” a link to a competitive service (that the search engine company owns) is just plain rude — it goes […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

December 21st, 2006

Fatal Address Error for AOL

I recently sent an e-mail to a friend to an AOL address I had listed for them in my Outlook address book. The e-mail got bounced back to me, but I was impressed with the automatic response from AOL.
We would love to have gotten this email to friendsemail@aol.com. But, your recipient never logged onto their […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

December 6th, 2006

Google to Purchase Plaxo

I’m a Plaxo user and I love the service. I was hesitant at first, but a friend of mine kept hounding me about how great the service was and that they weren’t out to just harvest e-mail addresses for spammers.
Colbert Low has an interesting post at Profy.com about the possibility of Google purchasing Plaxo. Although […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

November 16th, 2006

Jason Calacanis Leaves AOL

With the recent departure of Jon Miller, AOL CEO, Jason Calacanis has quickly announced his departure as well from the AOL and his own Weblogs, Inc.
Calacanis is a what I would call a chain-entrepreneur, it won’t be long before he’ll be moving forward again and building something of significance that we’ll all be talking about […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

November 1st, 2006

AOL Mail Still a Spam Magnet

Why is it that AOL mail, or specifically my AIM mail account, continues to be a spam magnet? I don’t provide my e-mail address for this account to anyone, I never include it on web forms or on web pages. 3 of 5 messages from my account above are sent specifically to my AOL/AIM address, […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

October 29th, 2006

Yahoo Looking at AOL

There seems to be something in the water don’t you think? I mean Google buys YouTube for over $1.5B and that just puts everyone in the shopping mood. I guess it make sense though, there’s only about 55 more days until Christmas right?
FORTUNE has learned from multiple sources that Yahoo (Charts) recently approached Time Warner […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

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