All posts tagged AOL

AOL Redesigned & Social Networks Integrated

By | October 30, 2008 | Latest News, New Features, Random Access, Social News, Tech Startups, Web Review | No comments

AOL one of the largest web portal and it’s redesigned. The new version of AOL which is so friendly and lots of new things available and you can do more things within a click and from one pages. At the top in right hand side you can change the color of home page – just click on box. Also, right side bar where you can login to your yahoo, aol, gmail accounts and easily you can edit this pages for you. In center it’s showing the recent updates and the hot titles with mini photos.

On right side bar, My Networks where AOL, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo social networks features enabled. If you logon myspace, you can checkout your & friends recent status updates and profiles, videos, blog all features available.

From left hand side you can visit autos section, entertainments, travels, real states, video, yellow pages, women, white pages, weather and so on. In below feed features – best updates ever in home page but for slow net connection it can take more time to load the main page.

In over all the site’s new updates is awesome and better then past one.

What is OpenID?

By | June 9, 2008 | Tips & Tricks | 1 Comment

Question: What is OpenID?

Answer:

Official View: OpenID is the decentralized, lightweight protocol for single sign-on and portable identity that is causing a massive disruption in today’s internet. More than 8,000 Web sites currently accept OpenID, a figure growing by five percent week over week, and many of the world’s leading companies, including Google Blogger, AOL, VeriSign, France Telecom and Sun Microsystems have adopted or announced support for OpenID enabling over 160 million users.

What is an OpenID? [via janrain]

Wikipedia View: OpenID is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on to many different web sites using a single digital identity, eliminating the need for a different user name and password for each site. OpenID is a decentralized, free and open standard that lets users control the amount of personal information they provide.

OpenID [via wikipedia]

The Content Search Engine Sphere.com Acquired By AOL.com

By | April 15, 2008 | Latest News, New Features, Tech Startups, Web Review | No comments

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Sphere a powerful software and which is making a contextual connection with others blog or websites and showing you the relevant articles from your sites. As well as, others bloggers or user of sphere also see your web contents. Making you faster and showing you the web sphere’s news. Recently, the Sphere Blog confirms the acquisition and TechCrunch suggests the purchase price was at about $25 million.

I am sure, AOL will new way and make it more sofisticated for the users and I’ll really the fastest tracking system and get more ides, knowledge about web spheres.
[via techcrunch | gigaom | sphere blog ]

AOL Launced In Taiwan

By | April 15, 2008 | Latest News, New Features, Tech Startups | No comments

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Just recently AOL announced and launched the beta version for Taiwan. The site designer made it more user friendly and added great features for the Taiwan’s user. Also free email service, instant messaging, search engine and much more funs available on that updates. Upcoming next month, the developer will release and adding more features and content should be localized in Chinese Languages.

“The launch of AOL.tw is just the beginning of an ongoing effort to provide consumers in Taiwan with the services and content they want,” said Norman Koo, VP and General Manager for Greater China. “Our industry-leading products and programming combined with our content partnerships will provide a unique experience for consumers and advertisers, as well as an international, regional and local mix of news, finance and entertainment information.”

[via 901am]