AOL And Amazon Join Up For Video Sales

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

It was announced on Friday that AOL, formerly America Online, has stopped selling online videos, and, instead, have teamed up with Amazon’s Unbox service. Just over a year old, it seems that AOL wants to shift all of its focus to the advertising business model, so has decided to remove its ...

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AOL Radio: We’re Not Shutting Down

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

It has been fairly widely reported today that Yahoo! and AOL are set to shutter their Internet radio services soon. The reason for the fears are well founded; this March the Copyright Royalty Board decided that a 38% increase in royalties were in order. The foundation for the claims come ...

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AOL Mobile Launches in the UK

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

AOL’s mobile portal is growing, with a launch today in the UK. The aim is to provide a real Internet experience for mobile users, mirroring the AOL web experience as closely as possible. You’ll get the same front page content that you’ll find on AOL’s website, like web ...

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Drawing Basic Rectangles in PDF Documents with PHP 5Clickable Gets Former AOL Exec Jonathan Miller on Board

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

After $6 million in funding and the addition of Neilsen BuzzMetric’s Max Kalehoff as the VP of Marketing, Clickable adds more clout to its roster with the inclusion of former AOL Chairman and CEO Jonathan Miller to the company’s Board of Directors. Having held senior exec roles at ...

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AOL Prepares New Video Annoyance: Video Ticker Ads

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Boy, those big companies are really trying hard to mess up the online video viewing experience for us. We’ve got pre-roll ads, post-roll ads, overlay ads and dozens of ads all around the video. Now, AOL (with the help of PointRoll and its TickerBoy technology) has prepared a new way ...

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