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• AOL Launches Free Versions of AIM, AOL Radio and Truveo on Apple App Store

  AOL announced three new iPhone OS applications: AIM, the leading instant messaging service; AOL Radio, the most popular online radio service and recent recipient of an Apple Design Award; and Truveo, the leading video search engine are available as free downloads from the Apple App Store beginning today. Read more...

• AOL Wins Coveted Apple Design Award

  AOL announced that the company was recognized with an Apple Design Award for the development of AOL Radio for iPhone. The AOL developed application was highlighted during the "iPhone Developer Showcase" portion of the annual awards ceremony last night at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco and won the award for "Best Entertainment Application". Read more...

• AOL Launches AIM Money for Web Developers!

  Revenue-Sharing Program Lets Developers Monetize Open AIM Applications. New AIM Version 6.8 Now Available; Offers New Open API for Developers to Build Mini-Applications for the Buddy List

  AOL announced the availability of AIM Money, a new-revenue-sharing program that lets developers make money from Open AIM applications. AOL also announced AIM version 6.8, the latest version of their popular instant messaging software, which features new modules for the Buddy List and a new open API for developers to build their own mini-applications to upload and share in a library.Read more...

The Latest Articles

• The AIM Map Phone

  by Mark Blomsma
  June 11 2008
  Geocoding is hot. “Geocoding is the process of assigning geographic identifiers (e.g., codes or geographic coordinates expressed as latitude-longitude) to map features and other data records, such as street addresses. You can also geocode media, for example where a picture was taken, IP addresses, and anything that has a geographic component. Read more.

• Porting your Facebook App to Bebo

  by Blake Commagere
  June 6, 2008
  Several Facebook developers have still not ported their apps to Bebo despite the ease with which it can be done. The team at Bebo has gone to great pains to ensure that porting your app from Facebook to Bebo is very, very little work. Given that you can access Bebo's audience of 80 million users by spending just a little time on it, you should begin your port immediately - my applications (Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves & Slayers) took me about 9 hours total to port over. Here's a quick guide to help you get started. More...

• Building a .NET VoIP Application Using AIM Call Out

  by Mark Blomsma
  May 9, 2008
  In November 2007, AOL added AIM Call Out to the many features of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Recently, AOL opened up this service by offering the Open Voice API. The Open Voice API consists of a number of service offerings, all based on open standards, that allow any application to use the AIM Call Out infrastructure to place calls from any standards-based hardware device, or, for a developer, a more important, custom piece of software. This essentially allows you to build your own softphone or to integrate some sort of phone functionality into your line-of-business application. In this article, I will take on a journey of what it takes to actually make a call using these open standards, and show you the resources available for implementing phone functionality in a custom application. More...

• Get Started with Userplane Desktop

  by John Fronckowiak
  May 2, 2008
  In conjunction with the release of Adobe AIR, AOL's Userplane introduced its latest version of Desktop based on the new Adobe technology. If you already have an existing online community, you can use the AIR implementation of Userplane Desktop, and rebrand it to serve your community. In other words, web sites and developers can build their own customized desktop application, after Userplane has done all the heavy lifting for them, so their users can receive individualized alerts, systems updates, and IM notification without being logged into the site. More...

• Creating a Custom Open AIM Chat Client Using Adobe AIR

  by Richard Bates
  April 23, 2008
  In today's business world, the web isn't just a static repository of information: it's a dynamic plane of communication that lets people instantly interact with each other. AOL's latest release of its Open AIM API supports this idea by giving Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex developers the tools to move messaging functionality into their applications to create full-blown communication tools. This article lays the groundwork for that leap to the next level of communication by showing you how to create a functional chat application that you can embed in your AIR or Flex applications. More...
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