http://simonwillison.net/2009-01-27T18:13:11+00:00Simon Willison2009-01-27T18:13:11+00:002009-01-27T18:13:11+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/27/bebo/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/27/a-year-later-aol-is-contemplating-a-bebo-sale/">A Year Later, AOL Is Contemplating A Bebo Sale</a></strong></p> Ignore the headline and read the actual article—Mike Butcher’s description of how Bebo targeted old fashioned TV advertising agencies while other social networks ignored them completely is riveting. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/advertising">advertising</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/agencies">agencies</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bebo">bebo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mike-butcher">mike-butcher</a></p>

2009-01-18T08:48:32+00:002009-01-18T08:48:32+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/18/eviction/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617">Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse</a></strong></p> Jason Scott on AOL’s closure of Hometown, their hosting service. In related news, Lycos just announced they are closing Tripod, which has been providing free hosting for 13 years. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/archive">archive</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eviction">eviction</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hometown">hometown</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jason-scott">jason-scott</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lycos">lycos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tripod">tripod</a></p>

2009-01-14T22:02:42+00:002009-01-14T22:02:42+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/14/ficlets/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://ficlets.ficly.com/">ficlets memorial</a></strong></p> Here’s a great argument for Creative Commons—AOL shut down Ficlets without providing an archive or export tool, but the license meant Ficlets co-creator Kevin Lawver could scrape and preserve all of the content anyway. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/archive">archive</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/creative-commons">creative-commons</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data">data</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ficlets">ficlets</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/kevin-lawver">kevin-lawver</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/preservation">preservation</a></p>

2008-09-15T10:39:47+00:002008-09-15T10:39:47+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/15/google/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1141">Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts</a></strong></p> And they’re using the password anti-pattern to get them! Despite both Yahoo! and Hotmail (and Google themselves; not sure about AOL) offering a safe, OAuth-style API for retrieving contacts without asking for a password. This HAS to be a communications failure somewhere within Google. Big internet companies stand to lose the most from widespread abuse of the anti-pattern, because they’re the ones most likely to be targetted by phishers. Shameful. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ffs">ffs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hotmail">hotmail</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oauth">oauth</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/passwordantipattern">passwordantipattern</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/phishing">phishing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/shameful">shameful</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a></p>

2008-03-31T17:54:56+00:002008-03-31T17:54:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/31/jwz/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://jwz.livejournal.com/856745.html">Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!</a></strong></p> jwz has recreated home.mcom.com, the original home of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, using a snapshot from 21st October 1994 and a domain borrowed from current owner AOL. Also includes instructions on running 1994 Mosaic Netscape binaries under a modern Linux distro. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/browsers">browsers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/history">history</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jwz">jwz</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/linux">linux</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mosaic">mosaic</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/netscape">netscape</a></p>

2007-08-15T18:34:38+00:002007-08-15T18:34:38+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/15/aol/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://dev.aol.com/node/578">AOL &amp; OpenID - Status Update</a></strong></p> It looks like they’re whitelisting a small list of providers for the moment. I’m not sure what this means for delegation. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a></p>

2007-07-14T21:09:26+00:002007-07-14T21:09:26+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/14/pibb/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://pibb.com/signin">Pibb Sign in page</a></strong></p> Nice demonstration of an easier OpenID sign in page—lets you sign in with an AIM screenname or LiveJournal username instead (which uses OpenID under the hood). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aim">aim</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/janrain">janrain</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/livejournal">livejournal</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pibb">pibb</a></p>

2007-03-10T17:41:08+00:002007-03-10T17:41:08+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/10/ficlets/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://ficlets.com/">Ficlets</a></strong></p> AOL’s first application to launch on Rails, and their first application to accept OpenIDs as well as AOL screen names. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://lawver.net/archive/2007/03/07/h19_hello_ficlets.php">Kevin Lawver</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ficlets">ficlets</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openidconsumer">openidconsumer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails">rails</a></p>

2007-03-06T07:57:57+00:002007-03-06T07:57:57+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/6/your/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://openid.phpbb.cc/2007/03/03/your-aim-screen-name-is-your-openid">phpbb-openid: Your AIM screen name is your OpenID</a></strong></p> Log in to a phpBB board with an AOL OpenID and it will try to associate your OpenID with an account that lists that AIM in the profile. This is the kind of behaviour I talked about in my FOWA talk. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aim">aim</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fowa">fowa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/phpbb">phpbb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/phpbbopenid">phpbbopenid</a></p>

2007-02-15T11:33:26+00:002007-02-15T11:33:26+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/15/panzerjohn/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer/entries/2007/02/15/aol-and-openid-where-we-are/1406"><p>We don't yet accept OpenID identities within our products as a relying party, but we're actively working on it. That roll-out is likely to be gradual.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer/entries/2007/02/15/aol-and-openid-where-we-are/1406">John Panzer</a>, AOL</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-panzer">john-panzer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a></p>

2007-02-15T11:27:48+00:002007-02-15T11:27:48+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/15/aol/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer/entries/2007/02/15/aol-and-openid-where-we-are/1406">AOL and OpenID</a></strong></p> http://openid.aol.com/your-screenname now works as an OpenID, for every AOL user. Wow. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a></p>

2007-01-10T23:06:50+00:002007-01-10T23:06:50+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/10/atom/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer/entries/2006/12/12/atom-api-for-aol-journals/1395">Atom API for AOL Journals</a></strong></p> AOL are doing some really cool things with the Atom Publishing Protocol. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/app">app</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/atom">atom</a></p>

2006-11-28T12:22:16+00:002006-11-28T12:22:16+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Nov/28/including/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=591">Including Dojo, The Really Easy Way</a></strong></p> Drop in a single include to load code on demand from AOL’s CDN. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol">aol</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cdn">cdn</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dojo">dojo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a></p>