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software

AOL Desktop 1.0 Comes to Mac

Things I'd do before installing AOL Desktop software onto my Mac:

1. Eat a live cockroach.
2. Get a Darth Maul facial tattoo.
3. Start running.
4. Date any of the contestants from The Bachelor.

For those who have already completed alternatives 1-4, feel free to hit the jump to scope the details.

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3:40 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,116 views, 86 comments

Latest by Tomahawk214: But you have all your favorite AOL sites at your fingertips. YOUR FINGERTIPS PEOPLE. more »

yahoo

Yahoo Flirting With AOL Something Fierce, Microsoft Still On Doorstep With Flowers

An unnamed source (aren't they all?) confirmed a rumor that had been floating before: that Yahoo, in order to escape being grabbed by Microsoft, would hurl itself at the second-ugliest suitor in the room, AOL. The new details say that Time Warner would pay some cash up front for a 20% stake in a joint AOL-Yahoo program. The AOL side, valued at $10 billion, would include all properties (such as our worthy competitor Engadget) but not the dial-up service that your grandma and pretty much no one else still has. Microsoft still may get its way, though: Word is that it's teaming with MySpace-owner News Corp for some kind of a three-way proposition. [Reuters]

11:24 AM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Wilson Rothman
1,272 views, 36 comments

Latest by SneakerFiend: @EBone: I think it has to do with the messenger and search engine. I remember when MSN was promoting talking to yahoo users through Live Messenger. Also i think that a merger between yahoo and microsoft will give them a more »

gadgets

ICQ, the Toothpaste

Everyone remembers ICQ, the first widely-used instant messaging application that's all but dead in most of the world now. The Israeli software company that developed the suite before it was purchased by AOL has just partnered with a big Israeli pharmacy company called CTS to release this ICQ toothpaste, which our tipster claims will "help P2P communication (person to person) while reducing bad breath." Weird, yet really really cool. On a related note, I've got a low six-digit ICQ number. How long is yours? [Thanks Nir!]

9:30 PM on Sat Mar 15 2008
By Jason Chen
47,043 views, 88 comments

Latest by gogman: Aox, it's not 105XXX it's 103XXX 103957 FTW!!!!!! ICQ Member Since: 12/5/1996 6:09:00 PM I still use it almost daily with Pidgin tho I get sick of all the Russian spam invites... Hey Ruskies, ICQ spam is gay, so stop it, 'kay? -gogman- more »

software

Yahoo Flees Microsoft, Runs to Time Warner's AOL?

Microsoft hating is something of a national pastime, but Yahoo's desire to avoid a Redmond takeover has apparently driven them to seek a cozy relationship with Time Warner. Yes, some geniuses out there are actually concocting "a deal that would fold Time Warner's AOL Internet unit into Yahoo." I'm sorry, but hasn't history proven that working with Time Warner on internet stuff is the business equivalent of trying to conquer Russia in the winter? The joke is, we were actually relieved to hear that the same unnamed people familiar with this deal still think Microsoft's Yahoo buyout will happen. [Reuters]

8:54 AM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Wilson Rothman
1,936 views, 34 comments

Latest by Xenocide: @imTheKing: Ummm, MS has Billions in liquid cash used just for this kind of thing. more »

cellphones

AOL Launching 'Open Mobile Platform,' Allows Homebrewed Programs on Any Phone

AOL, the company you haven't patronized since 1996, has announced that it's launching an "Open Mobile Platform" to help developers get mobile programs across multiple platforms. Despite the name, it's not a full mobile OS like Android, rather a protocol for building and distributing applications across multiple mobile OSes. Think of it like Android's API, but for all phone platforms rather than just for one. More »

10:20 AM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Adam Frucci
2,077 views, 21 comments

roundup

Afternoon News: Goodbye Netscape, Hello Kitty For Men and More

• A new law in New Jersey willl ban internet sex offenders from the web. But then who will read Gizmodo? [The Register]
• AOL will discontinue development of the Netscape browser early next year. RIP Netscape, you were the original IE alternative. [TechCrunch]
• Once upon a time, Google went by the name BackRub. Yuck. [Valleywag]
• A line of Hello Kitty clothing for men will go on sale in Japan next month. If you're looking for me, I'll be scraping my eyes out with rusty nails. [AP]

4:00 PM on Fri Dec 28 2007
By Benny Goldman
4,373 views, 12 comments

Latest by exigent: @Sloth: That show is bomb, fucking Chris Hanson... "Why dont you have a seat right over here?" more »

AIM 6.5, out today, includes the AIM Tunes plug-in: you'll be able to listen to any music your online buddies put into playlists, provided of course that the tracks are not locked by DRM. Net radio, we hardly knew ye. [AIM]

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home entertainment

Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor



The equivalent of the 1992 US Men's Olympic basketball team has just gotten together to develop a competitor to GooTube. That's right, NBC, Fox, AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! have united Captain Planet style and formed a web video site not made up of crappy clips people don't want to watch. Broken by CNBC—with snide commentary about Fox and Google thrown in —this site has already secured advertisers and will theoretically reach 90 percent of US Internet users. More »

12:58 PM on Thu Mar 22 2007
By Jason Chen
3,108 views, 28 comments

Latest by obbie: what would have been great is if the clip up top was on youtube more »

home entertainment

AOL Sniffing Around Movie Downloads

You know the movie download market is heating up when AOL decides to get into the act. A tipster showed us this site where the ancient AOL walled garden for noobs is beta testing the downloads, offering such gems as Eight Crazy Nights, Can't Hardly Wait, Easy Rider, Flat Liners, and Muppets Take Manhattan. Could they have found any older or shittier movies than this? Not unless they rummaged around my uncle Harry's bottom drawer. More »

9:42 AM on Wed Jan 31 2007
By Charlie White
667 views, 4 comments

portable media

AOL, Haier Partner for Wi-Fi Media Player

Continuing with the trend seen at CES this year, AOL and Haier have teamed to release another Wi-Fi player. This player, currently named the Smartscreens Media Device, will include Wi-Fi (obviously), Bluetooth, 30GB hard drive and support MPEG4 and WMV for video on its Linux-based operating system. More »

11:25 AM on Mon Jan 15 2007
By Travis Hudson
591 views, 7 comments

home entertainment

Sonos Now Supports Zune, Napster, Yahoo!, AOL, and MTV

Sonos is spending like Web 2.0 Bubble money is going out of style, and announcing they've bought support for almost all the major internet music stores. Along with Zune, there's Napster, Yahoo, AOL and MTV support, which makes streaming pretty simple. More »

6:00 PM on Mon Jan 8 2007
By Jason Chen
710 views, 3 comments

portable media

Apple Store Robbed, AOL Rubs It In Contextually

A case of poor timing for contextual ads, or is AOL rubbing it in? – Jason Chen More »

9:00 PM on Wed Oct 25 2006
By Jason Chen
119 views, 8 comments

cellphones

AOL Goes Mobile

No longer will your mobile love for AOL be limited to constant IM on your sidekick. AOL Germany CEO, Charles Frankle, announced that AOL will be launching a mobile phone service in Germany later this year. This is becoming the latest trends among mobile giants. Apparently combining social web interaction and mobile telephony becoming this year's hot trend—re: Helio. No word if AOL will be launching the service in the States. – Travis Hudson More »

7:30 PM on Sat May 27 2006
By Travis Hudson
176 views, 6 comments

Latest by Papercutninja: Yay. Every 3 minutes, you'll get a phone call that says "Greate Reel Estate DeaLZ!!" or "V1agra at teh lowesst pricccces!!". Aol is the worst thing EVER. more »

gadgets

World's Worst Tech Products. Ever.

Since Memorial Day is right around the corner, let's let PCWorld help us remember the 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. A lot of the products on the list are software-related—in fact, we have to wait until number 13 before we see the first item that might have felt at home on shiny-techno-obsessed Gizmodo: the IBM PC Jr. from 1984 with its roundly-hated "Chiclet" keyboard. Another notable hardware flop was number 15, the Iomega Zip drive from 1998, which victimized countless users with the click, click, click of its dying drives. And before you Mac snobs start getting all uppity, holding down spot number 17 is the worthless, anvil-like 16-pound Macintosh "Portable" from 1989. More »

1:51 PM on Fri May 26 2006
By Charlie White
1,377 views, 16 comments

Latest by Falconfire: Superdisks came after Zip was out for a while which is why Iomega won Not to mention they too where VERY buggy my district bought them, within a year and a half they had all broke and refused to read more »

gadgets

AOL, Dodo Soon To Be Roommates (??)

An irate tipster notified us that the AOL call center in Jacksonville, Florida is shutting down and the company is cutting 1,200 employees this week. Why? Because the company has lost 3 million subscribers in the past year—a mere 800,000 in the past three months—and isn't quite making the numbers, you know, to pay people. More »

9:58 AM on Mon May 8 2006
By johnb
87 views, 15 comments

software

AOL to Launch VOIP Service

There's not a lot of detail on this, but AOL will be launching some sort of VOIP service linked with AIM. The service will offer a unique, free phone number where your friends and relations can leave messages. We doubt very much that this is a unique phone number and that instead they've created a call center to accept voice messages via an 800-number and PIN combo. More »

11:00 AM on Fri May 5 2006
By johnb
102 views, 1 comment

software

AOL/Yahoo Email Tax to Stop Spam: Why It Won't Work

There's been quite a bit of media play about AOL and Yahoo's plans to adopt a quarter-cent "email tax" or "stamp" or whatever you want to call it, and we're here to tell you it's horseshit. While this utopian vision of data exchange for pennies a day—the price of a cup of coffee—makes for nice Business Section copy, this will fail in practice. And by "fail in practice" we mean "never, ever get off the ground." More »

2:00 AM on Mon Feb 6 2006
By johnb
1,415 views, 11 comments

Latest by americanredcross: The American Red Cross Humanitarian organization is there for all of us. They are also focused on preventing and preparing people for disasters and providing the education to people so they know how to properly respond and help each other. more »

music

AOL Embraces its Gay Side

The gay community has so much of its own culture at this point, so why not a music channel on AOL? No reason at all, it seems. Looks like AOL has launched a site called "G-Sides, Music for the GLBT Community," which features all the "gay and lesbian artists we love." Obviously, lots of Boy George and Melissa Etheridge, and today's launch also includes an interview and DJ session from Cyndi Lauper and videos of the Strokes. So there's that.
"This site will talk about all different facets: gay artists, music that has a strong LGB fan base, and even videos that you might not think have relevance to the gay and lesbian community — but do."
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6:27 AM on Wed Jan 25 2006
By tgrumet
1,168 views, 6 comments

Latest by KsprayDad: I didn't know that AOL had anything other than gay sections?? Alternatives On Line? I agree with Enrique... Where is the Polygamists section? more »