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18 unusual facts about AOL


Advanced Visualization Studio

With the release of Winamp version 5.66 on November 20, 2013, AOL announced that Winamp.com would shutdown on December 20, 2013, and Winamp and its components would cease to be offered for download after that date.

Awaken the Empire

On November 3, 2011, The band's second single and video for "The Awakening" premiered exclusively on AOL Noisecreep.

Case Foundation

Founded in 1997 by AOL co-founder Steve Case and his wife Jean Case, the Case Foundation invests in individuals, nonprofits, and social enterprises aiming to connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action.

Club Kidsoft

The company produced one of AOL's first retail stores, and set the standard for a very early version of -e-commerce and branding of digital media.

DragonRealms

When Ziff-Davis did not launch the service, DragonRealms was offered on GEnie and later AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy.

DSL filter

Internet service providers like AOL recommend changing the filters before they reach a year of service.

Idiotlamp Productions

Idiotlamp has also produced a number of award winning commercials and viral campaigns, working with leading traditional advertising agencies such as Crispin Porter + Bogusky as well as newer digital agences such as Glue London and Lean Mean Fighting Machine, for clients including Burger King, Boots, AOL, MINI and Virgin Games.

Liberty Interactive

AOL Inc. (1% through Liberty Capital and 2% through Liberty Interactive)

Magestorm

Firstly as part of the Engage Games Online service, before moving to AOL.

Marcia Cole

After more than twenty years of executive-level tenures at leading media corporations such as Time Inc., AOL, Latina Media Ventures, Fairchild Publications and the now defunct, Vanguarde Media, Marcia returned to her first love: art.

Minteye

minteye’s products includes Sliding CAPTCHA, an image-based CAPTCHA that serves as an advertising platform, and Pre-Roll SKIP ad, a pre-scroll ad unit, which was implemented by AOL.

Online presence management

Major search engines that index pages using spiders are Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, and Lycos.

P3 Sessions

P3 Sessions is a Norwegian radio program on NRK P3, that airs own-produced concerts live, like the American version; Sessions@AOL.

Pat Bolland

He also created and hosted Investors On-Line, a nationally syndicated TV show; hosted Canada's Business Report, a daily radio show; and wrote an investment column for America Online.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

Immunity for AOL was upheld against liability for a user's posting of incorrect stock information.

Immunity was upheld against claims that AOL unreasonably delayed in removing defamatory messages posted by third party, failed to post retractions, and failed to screen for similar postings.

Shaka Ponk

Shaka Ponk performed in New York City for the first time October 2009 in the celebrated CMJ Musical Festival and on November 7, AOL chose the track "How We Kill Stars" off the new album Bad Porn Movie Trax as the Music Video of the Day.

XRumer

Support for creating e-mail accounts in an automated fashion on Hotmail and AOL have been completely removed.


Anti-spam techniques

By monitoring spam reports from places such as spamcop, AOL's feedback loop, and Network Abuse Clearinghouse, the domain's abuse@ mailbox, etc., ISPs can often learn of problems before they seriously damage the ISP's reputation and have their mail servers blacklisted.

Anystream

Anystream's Agility software has become a standard for streaming media encoding and broadcast transcoding for such media companies as BBC, Red Bee Media, BskyB, CNet, CNN, AOL, ESPN, Fox News, Foxsports.com, NFL Films, weather.com and others.

AOL Community Leader Program

This in turn gave the AOL service more value over the less organized "frontier" of the Internet, at least in the eyes of users new to the online scene at the time.

BermanBraun

The Santa Monica, CA based company, founded by principals Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun in 2007, has established partnerships with a number of media companies throughout the industry, including NBC Universal Television, AOL, YouTube, Starcom Mediavest and Microsoft.

Brad Harrison

He later established the first joint working group across AOL Time Warner to include elements from Time Distribution Services, Time Inc, Warner Home Video, Warner Music and AOL in order to develop a new fully integrated product offering for potential partners.

Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications

In Spain, former state operator Telefónica de España was forced to reduce costs after protests from users, and Germany's former state operator, Deutsche Telekom, was reported to the European Commission by AOL for perceived anti-competitive pricing.

Can I Go Now

In order to promote the single, Hewitt appeared on TV shows and events including ProBowl, The Orlando Jones Show and performing an acoustic version of the song on Sessions@AOL.

Ccoms

Ccoms, an abbreviation for "chat commands", is any program that employs text-based commands typed into an AOL chat room to control a third-party program, usually an mp3 player or password cracker.

The programs utilized many of AOL's API functions to operate and were usually programmed in the Visual Basic language.

CIX

CIX then grew rapidly, reaching a peak of more than 16,000 users in 1994, before starting to lose customers to the newly formed Internet service providers that offered free access to the mass market using 0845 dialup, such as Demon (which was started by Cixen Cliff Stanford, whose CIX nickname was 'Demon'), Pipex, AOL and Freeserve.

Criticism of Yahoo!

Yahoo!, along with Google China, Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, Skype, Nortel and others, has cooperated with the Chinese Communist Government in implementing a system of internet censorship in mainland China.

Dave Barry in Cyberspace

The book ends with a fictional story from the second-person viewpoint of a married, stay-at-home mom and her gradual acceptance of and proficiency at using the family PC, especially surfing the internet through the AOL online service.

DMARC

This means that senders will experience consistent authentication results for their messages at AOL, Comcast, Gmail, Hotmail, Mail.ru, Netease, XS4ALL, Yahoo! and any other email receiver implementing DMARC.

Fantasti.cc

In 2011, neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam published a pop-psychology book titled A Billion Wicked Thoughts, to which Fantasti.cc was used as a case study for their extensive research into “the mechanics of sexual relationships” together with sites like Youporn and AOL.

Florida's 16th congressional district election, 2006

On September 28, 2006, ABC News reported that Republican incumbent Mark Foley had sent email messages, from his personal AOL account, to a then-16-year-old former Congressional page, asking the page to send a photo of himself to Foley, among other things that were overtly sexual in nature.

Joystiq

It is AOL's primary video game blog, with sister blogs dealing with MMORPG gaming in general and the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft in particular.

Mancini•Duffy

Recent high-profile projects include headquarters relocations for JPMorgan Chase, the CIT Group, Condé Nast Publications, and AOL; a headquarters build-out for Time Warner at Time Warner Center; new television studios and production facilities for NBC Sports Group in Stamford, CT; and an ongoing renovation of Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan.

Marden House

After Marden moved to a nursing home in 1998, the house was purchased by Jim Kimsey, co-founder of AOL, in 2000 for $2.5 million.

Metaboli

Metaboli has spread its catalogue to majors ISP portals (Orange, SFR, Virgin Media, T-Online), web portals (MSN, AOL) multimedia stores (Fnac, Game, Micromania).

MetaCreations

Viewpoint Corporation was best known for the Viewpoint Media Player installed inside AIM/AOL packages to help provide better 3D visualization for product tours and configurators on the web.

Minyanville

Investment/business articles and broadcasts are available to the public on the Minyanville website, and via licensing agreements with major financial websites that include Yahoo Finance, MSN Money, AOL Money & Finance and MarketWatch.

Netscape Navigator 9

After AOL outsourced the development of Netscape Browser 8 to Mercurial Communications in 2004, Netscape Navigator 9 marked the first Netscape browser to be produced in-house since Netscape 7.

Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems

Nielsen BDS also uses the service to track monitored airplay at satellite radio (Sirius XM), internet services (like Yahoo! and AOL) and audio networks (like Dial Global, Music Choice and Radio Disney), as well as on TV (12 U.S. music video channels and 9 Canadian video channels).

Online News Association

Past keynote speakers include: Twitter’s Evan Williams; Vivek Kundra, Chief Information Officer of the United States in the Obama administration; AOL CEO Tim Page; then-NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, and journalists instrumental in the Arab Spring uprising.

Raça Negra

Several hundred copies of AOL CD-ROMs were accidentally pressed with a Raça Negra album instead of the company software.

Ripe Digital Entertainment

The services were mainly distributed through cable video on demand services such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and FiOS, along with syndication through the AOL, Google and Yahoo ad networks.

Robert Lorsch

His career of combining entrepreneurship and philanthropy was the focal point of one of the seven keys to success in the 2007 book, The Millionaire Zone, authored by ABC Radio Host and AOL Family Financial Editor Jennifer Openshaw.

Rosanne Siino

Since retiring, she has consulted for numerous high-tech and Internet companies, such as AOL, Google, Shutterfly, Qualcomm, and PlanetOut.

Senyo Amoaku

After trying his hand successfully in many sports Senyo undertook a hip-hop career that would have him perform alongside the likes of The Black Eyed Peas, Tha Liks, Jerry Heller, The Nappy Roots and many more, shortly after meeting his manager he booked his first national commercial with AOL, this began a string of national spots including EA Sports and Kraft Foods DiGiorno's Pizza.

Site59.com

In addition to its own web site, Site59 operated a private label distribution (ASP) product, powering last-minute sections of Travelocity, AOL Travel, CheapTickets, Yahoo! Travel, American Airlines Vacations, Delta Air Lines Vacations, Continental Airlines Vacations, Northwest's nwa.com, and Bestfares.com, among others.

Stacey Bradford

Bradford's articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal's Sunday Journal, RealEstateJournal.com, and CareerJournal.com, as well as Consumer Reports, AOL and Yahoo! Finance.

Techstars

Socialthing, which organizes users’ social media, was bought by AOL.

Terence Moore

As of 2010, he is a national sports columnist for AOL FanHouse.

Yerbatero

Ricardo Companioni from Aol Radio Blog said that "The guitar-driven rock track produced Stephen Lipson, is a total departure from the romantic pop songs that permeated his last album".

Zeran v. America Online, Inc.

On April 25, 1995, six days after the Oklahoma City bombing, a message was anonymously posted on America Online’s (AOL) "Michigan Military Movement" bulletin board advertising items with slogans glorifying the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.