Pages Tagged “AOL”
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- Ya-who? Flickr and Tumblr Were Lucky!
Huh. Verizon has sold what remains of Yahoo! and AOL. For half of what they paid for them. 🤦♂️ To a private equity firm. 😬 Apparently the division formerly known as Oath and later as Verizon Media Group will be called Yahoo going forward, which is probably a good move. I’ve got to say, though: […]
- Flocking from Netscape
When AOL first announced they were discontinuing Netscape, they recommended Firefox (a logical choice for many reasons). Since then, they’ve also started heavily promoting Flock—to the point of offering seamless upgrades from NS8 to Flock. (In theory, anyway; I fired up the copy I had for testing and couldn’t get it to do anything but […]
- Farewell, Netscape!
It’s been a long time coming, but AOL has officially decided to shut down the Netscape web browser. The final security updates for Netscape 9 will go out in February, and then that’s it. It’s been on life support for a while now, as AOL has tried repeatedly to revive it. After they dismantled the […]
- Pressing Buttons
You’ve probably heard by now that AOL and Yahoo are preparing a system by which large-volume email senders can pay to get their mail sent on to subscribers. You probably haven’t heard that it’s not just pay-to-send so much as it’s pay-to-get-accredited. Senders pay a company called Goodmail to say “we won’t send spam,” Goodmail […]
- AOL Branching Out Again?
I’d seen an AOL CD packaged to look like laundry detergent before (Tide, specifically), but this seems to take it a step further. I think what makes it seem strange to me is the fact that they made “Cleaner” more prominent than “AOL.” Sure, you can’t miss it, especially with the running man icon, and […]
- Netscape: Re-Clutter the Web
CNET has posted a write-up of AOL’s new Netscape prototype based on Firefox, as well as a screenshot. It seems to be a combination of Firefox + theme + bundled extensions… plus a mode that embeds Internet Explorer for compatibility. There are some nice ideas: adapting Firefox’s RSS capabilities to create a headline ticker, for […]
- Netscape Returns!
Well, it’s official. After months of rumors and vague announcements, Netscape 7.2 has been released! It’s been just over a year since AOL closed down Netscape and spun off the independent Mozilla Foundation. Despite the uncertainty of that transition, no one can deny that Mozilla has flourished. People everywhere are switching to Firefox and recommending […]
- IM Wars and the Spam Strawman
To be honest, I haven’t used any instant messaging system much since college. But every once in a while I fire up Gaim just to see if anyone I know is on AIM or ICQ. I have a Yahoo account, but I’m not sure anyone I know actually uses Yahoo Messenger, and I’ve been avoiding […]
- Netscape is dead. Long live Mozilla!
OK, that may be a bit melodramatic, but there are two interesting and complementary bits of news: The Mozilla Foundation was announced as a non-profit that will be the new home for Mozilla. AOL has donated $2 million for start-up funding, and various other companies have announced plans to support it. AOL is dismantling Netscape. […]
- Deja Vu
I saw this and was absolutely certain CNET’s software had accidentally re-posted an old news article about Gnutella. A day after developers at America Online’s Nullsoft unit quietly release file-sharing software, AOL pulls the link to the product from the subsidiary’s Web site. As it turns out, Nullsoft did it again, with an encrypted collaboration […]