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AOL Email Footer Lawsuit: Fairchild v. AOL, Cecchini v. AOL.
The History thus far: On March 2006, AOL placed advertisements in the footers of all AOL member emails. Since then it sparked a petition gaining 900 signatures against the idea. In May 2008, AOL notified a limited number of subscribers by...
Miss AOL Ficlets? Try Ficly!
Ficlets was an idea brought up by AOL developer Kevin Lawver. Essentially you and several authors will continue a multi-part story that spans as long as there is interest. The site came under fire when AOL announced last year that they would b...
Miss AOL Ficlets? Try Ficly!
Ficlets was an idea brought up by AOL developer Kevin Lawver. Essentially you and several authors will continue a multi-part story that spans as long as there is interest. The site came under fire when AOL announced last year that they would be...
Aim 7.0 Releases With Larger Buddy Icons
Today the next generation of the popular instant messenger platform released with a brand new version called Aim 7. It’s an early beta that will showcase some new features. It seems the message they are focusing on this time is to keep the pro...
Aim 7.0 Releases With Larger Buddy Icons
Today the next generation of the popular instant messenger platform released with a brand new version called Aim 7. It’s an early beta that will showcase some new features. It seems the message they are focusing on this time is to keep the pro...
AOL Message Boards back up
A quick post to let you know that all previous message boards that were closed are back online. AOL has not implemented the expected upgrades at this time. The message boards behave the same exact way as they did....
Adding Flash and MP3 Playlist codes to Bebo’s Code Snippet
You need one of the following modules/applications About Me: Code Snippet Gigya’s My Stuff Doesn’t code snippet already allow flash? Well it does, but you may have noticed your Playlis...
Why is AOL directing users to Yahoo Message Boards?
So one question that’s on everyone’s mind is why is AOL directing people to Yahoo Message boards. There is no official answer to this question but if we read between the lines we can figure out why. The message board everyone seems to be ...
AOL Message Board Closings Generates Frustration and Anger
In a previous post on the People Connection blog, AOL announced changes would be coming to the AOL Message boards. These changes included a new look for popular message boards, while the other boards would retire. On March 31st, the entire message bo...
AOL Bebo Migration Issues
The migration of AOL Profiles to Bebo didn’t go as smoothly as planned. For the most part there seems to be great lack of knowledge among AOL members over the inner workings of Bebo. AOL will have to address these issues in some shape or form. ...
Code Snippet, Where is it? [AIM/AOL Bebo Profiles]
So you’ve switched over to Bebo, but you find the Code Snippet box isn’t there, what do you do? Cry! Profiles with Code Snippet before the Bebo takeover will have it listed in their modules section. Profiles who did not use code snippet w...
How to Cancel AIM/AOL Bebo Profile
The steps for removing your AIM/AOL account on Bebo is very easy. Just remember you can not reverse this process unless you want to contact Bebo staff on your own. You will not be able to go back to the old AIM Profiles. Here’s what you do. 1....
AOL Profiles replaced by Bebo and Users Hate it!
So a few weeks ago at the end of February, AIM Profiles became Bebo. The new profile system allows more control over your profile allowing you to add videos, music, and text, in a much easier fashion than AIM Profiles. However, dedicated AIM Profiles...
AIM’s New Chat Experience; Add Chatrooms To Your Website
AOL has just exposed the new AIM Chat Experience on their front page. The new chatrooms ditches userplane’s flash based interface and attempts to ease the migration for AOL users into a web based format. This will also be the first time AIM use...
Remove Buddy Update from AIM Buddy Info
Another frequently asked question. So we’ll walk you through on how to remove messages from appearing inside your Buddy Update box in the AIM Buddy Info. Please note that it can take several days for messages to disappear from the box. Buddy up...
AOL Xdrive will close Janurary 12, 2009 - How to Backup Files
AOL sent out an email today warning users to backup all your storage from Xdrive. Xdrive will shut down on Janurary 12, 2009. This also affects Bluestring users as well since both websites use the Xdrive platform. We’ll help you along the way a...
A New Aim For Macs
AOL has released a brand new version of AIM for Macs through its beta website. No, this is not Aim 4.7 that was released several years ago, this is a brand new 2008 version that follows behind Aim 6 for Windows. Though this has been released a while ...
Goodbye AOL Journals, Hello Blogger!
AOL Journals has finally called it quits after 5 years. Through the years it went through a few rough spots, but managed to create a small dedicated user base whom enjoyed networking with their peers. On October 31st, 2008, AOL Journals will cease to...
When AOL splits, Where do we end up?
The Great Divide Time Warner plans to split AOL into two factions, an advertisement unit and a dial-up unit. The plan will be to sell off each unit to potential buyers. Dial-up users do not make up the majority on AOL so giving them away won’t ...
Aim 6.8 Skin Packs
In the upcoming weeks all skins on this site will be converted over to Aim 6.8 format. This also allows us to group selected skins together to make it easier to download all of them at once. The following skins have been grouped together into one pac...
Aim Profiles: Unable to save your changes at this time.
This issue has been floating around for a couple of weeks now. It has not been addressed by AOL at all. Some users will receive “Unable to save your changes at this time.” error messages when trying to edit their AIM Profiles. This usuall...
Aim 6.8 and Aim For Windows Mobile
Aim 6.8 Aim 6.8 was recently went GM a few days ago. Its new features have been covered here already, but as with newer versions, comes new complaints. Most of which deal with the plugins carousel at the bottom of the buddy list. Aside from that, now...
New Aim Express 7 with New Aim 6.8 Beta 3
Aim Express 7 Beta has a brand new interface iPhone-like interface. Taking some hints from Meebo, Aim Express now is completely in Adobe Flash. So no more javascript error messages for you! Another big complaint is when AIM Express would pop over all...
AOL now on SALE, but which company should buy it? (Part 1)
Time Warner is now deciding what it should do with its AOL venture. Now its time for the fun part. Who should buy AOL? Well lets take a look at each and every company suggested by various users around the internet. This will be split into 3 parts, ad...
AIM Users Furious over Ads in Buddy Info
As Randy Falco, CEO of AOL, gets closer to his dream of making AOL the most profitable advertising network, users were treated with a brand new ad inside the buddy info. These ads now take up a considerable amount of space at the bottom of the buddy ...
AOL develops another new AIM Client For Mac
This new client plays catch up to features already existing on Windows. It’s built with AIMCC SDK, and now allows support for plugins (previously a Windows exclusive feature). There seems to be a little discussion about why shoul...
Aim 6.5.7.20 Released
Aim 6.5.7.20 was released this week, and features the ALL NEW… actually nothing really is new, its just bug fixes. It does add a new module called “Hot Searches” which recieved a lukewarm response from the beta testers. I think they...
McLovin12Four on your AIM Buddy List
So who is McLovin12Four, and how did he get on your buddy list? McLovin12Four is another Official AIM Bot that advertises for the movie Superbad. If your buddy list has the category “AIM Bots” you should see him on your buddy...
Use AIM in GMail
Today, Gmail released their first integration with AIM. You can sign into your screen name and it will display your most popular contacts. Gmail will automatically store all conversations so you’ll never lose any logs, it also supports friendly...
AOL Launches New AIM Chatrooms
The final integration between AOL and Userplane is finally here. AOL has launched Aim Chatrooms today that can be accessed through chat.aim.com. Each chatroom features audio and video capabilities allowing you to watch up to four peo...
