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AOL Gives Consumers Their Lifestream
March 11, 2010
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – March 11, 2010 – AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced that its popular social aggregator, Lifestream, will now be available via desktop as a standalone product as well as on the iPhone and Android mobile platforms. Lifestream allows users to view status messages and posts from their friends on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, YouTube and much more – all in one place. In addition, Lifestream will now include updates from foursquare and MySpace. Since Lifestream’s launch within AIM a few months ago, usage has soared to nearly 2 million users* making it one of the largest aggregators of social content on the Web. Read more
MapQuest Engages Developer Community with Presence at SXSW; Shows Easy-to-Use, Developer Friendly Tools
March 10, 2010
MapQuest Platform 6.0 Includes Suite of Web Services for Simple Access to Powerful Location-Enabling Functionality
DENVER, March 10, 2010 – As part of the company’s presence at this year’s SXSW Conferences and Festivals, MapQuest is showcasing the latest expansion of its developer platform and demonstrating the company’s newest easy-to-use, developer friendly tools. MapQuest Platform 6.0, MapQuest’s suite of Web services, is aimed at making it effortless for developers to location-enable their applications. The 24th SXSW will take place March 12 – March 21, 2010 in Austin, Texas.
MapQuest is using Web services to take advantage of standard data formats, including JSON and XML that are usable by almost any programming language, to match the way developers work today. MapQuest Platform 6.0 allows developers in many cases to use only a few lines of code to add powerful location features to their Web or mobile application. Read more
AOL and Spinner.com Announce Broken Bells to Kick Off Pop-Up Show Series in Austin During SXSW's Music Festival
March 8, 2010
Spinner.com to Bring SXSW Experience to Web by Streaming Select Songs from Each Pop-Up Show
New York – March 03, 2010 – AOL Music’s Spinner.com, the most-visited rock music site on the Web*, announced today it anticipates that Broken Bells will headline the first of a series of free pop-up shows in Austin, Texas, during the South by Southwest Music Festival (March 17-21) with additional shows by Rogue Wave, VV Brown and Rival Schools. The four free pop-up shows will be held at undisclosed locations around Austin beginning March 17. The show times and locations will be revealed the day of the show on Spinner.com, AOL Music’s SXSW hub (http://music.aol.com/sxsw), Spinner’s Facebook fan page and to Spinner/SXSW Twitter followers. In addition, fans will be able to enjoy the performances virtually, with two songs from each show being available for free streaming on the site the next day. Read more
AOL Executive Vice President and CFO to Participate in the 2010 Credit Suisse Media Conference
March 1, 2010
New York – March 01, 2010 – AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Arthur Minson will participate in the 2010 Credit Suisse Media Conference on Monday, March 8, 2010, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Minson’s question-and-answer session is expected to begin at approximately 8 a.m. Eastern Time (ET). A live audio webcast will be available online at http://ir.aol.com.
Agency and Advertising Executives Rank AOL #1 Quality Online Sales Organization
February 26, 2010
This week at the annual IAB Conference in Carlsbad, CA, AOL was awarded the #1 ranking for Quality Sales Organization among 93 online advertising sales organizations rated by 200 respondents to this year’s Myers Survey. The awards were based on the results of the annual Jack Myers Media Business Report Survey of Advertising Executives on Online Sales Organization Attributes. The Myers survey is underwritten by 60 agencies, media companies, research and financial firms that subscribe to the Jack Myers Media Business Report.
eMarketer Taps Into AOL's Hispanic Cyber Study
February 11, 2010
eMarketer has published an article citing the findings of AOL's research study about the online behaviors of Hispanics. ]eMarketer noted that "according to the study, Hispanics were more likely to turn to the Web in almost every phase of the purchase decision, from beginning the learning process and learning about brands to comparing prices and making a final decision." Check out the full article and graphs here.
AOL BECOMES A MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK 2010 SPONSOR
February 11, 2010
AOL Media Lounge to Offer Live Video Blogging
New York -- February 11, 2010 – AOL Inc. announced today that it is becoming an inaugural sponsor of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York Fall 2010 Season. As part of its support, AOL is hosting the AOL Media Lounge for the event which takes place in Bryant Park in New York City, February 11-18. The AOL Media Lounge will be a unique environment for the press attendees covering Fashion Week and will be a full-service working media lounge right in the center of the action. As part of the media lounge, AOL will provide a live video blogging platform for the attending press to capture their real-time perspectives on the trends, the craftsmanship and all the glamour of the Week.
“Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is one of the signature events in the world of fashion and we’re thrilled to be associated with it. Through our AOL Media Lounge, we are excited to empower the working press and journalists covering the action from the Tents at Bryant Park,” said Maureen Sullivan, Chief of Staff, AOL. Read more
AOL Integrates AIM with Facebook Chat
February 10, 2010
Pioneering Integration Makes AIM the First Major Messaging Platform to Scale Across Social Communications
Mountain View, CA – AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced a new integration with Facebook that allows millions of AIM and Facebook users to add friends and invite them to chat across both environments. AIM is the first major instant messaging service to take advantage of Facebook Chat’s new API/interface to create a seamless chat experience for users. The new service is already available in beta here: www.aim.com/beta. It further extends AOL’s already successful integration with Facebook Connect across various AOL properties, including the AOL.com homepage, as well as Facebook’s integration with Lifestream, AOL’s social aggregator. This integration makes AIM the first major messaging platform to scale across social communications and provides an easier way for people to instantly communicate with their friends across multiple networks. Read more
AOL JOINS MIT MEDIA LAB CONSORTIUM
February 10, 2010
New York, NY - February 10, 2010 – AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced it has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab as a Consortium-level sponsor. The Media Lab is a pioneering research community focused on the study, invention and creative use of digital technologies.
The sponsorship, initially for three years, was spearheaded by AOL Ventures, a division established by AOL in 2009 to nurture early-stage, externally developed opportunities and employee-originated ideas. AOL will have the opportunity to collaborate on the Media Lab’s groundbreaking research, including rights to license work developed at the Media Lab during its sponsorship. Read more
AOL NAMES DAVID EUN PRESIDENT OF AOL MEDIA AND STUDIOS
February 4, 2010
Eun Will Oversee All AOL Content, SEED.com and Studio Operations
New York, NY, February 4, 2010 – AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced that David Eun will join the company as President of AOL Media and Studios, effective March 1. As AOL's chief content executive, Eun will be responsible for the company's more than 80 content sites, its new SEED.com publishing platform, as well as the newly acquired StudioNow video platform and AOL's NYC and LA studios.
Eun will report to AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong and will be based in New York. He succeeds Bill Wilson, President, AOL Media, who will transition out of the role after nine years with AOL.
Until 2006, Eun helped to oversee AOL as Vice President, Operations for the Media & Communications Group at Time Warner Inc. In that role, he helped provide operational oversight and develop new businesses, particularly in digital distribution and broadband content and services, for the company's AOL, Time Warner Cable and Time, Inc. divisions. Eun joins AOL from Google, where as Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, he was responsible for managing global content partnerships with Google and YouTube. Read more
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