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• From AOL: AOL Introduces Open Voice APIs

  AOL today introduced Open Voice APIs to provide third-party developers and VoIP device manufacturers with open standards protocols that will enable them to easily integrate the AIM Call Out service into softphones, as well as SIP-enabled hardware and cell phones with wi-fi connectivity. AIM Call Out integration will enable users to make low cost voice calls from anywhere in the world using the Internet to relay these calls. The Open Voice APIs can be found at http://dev.aol.com/aimcall.

  AIM Call Out is a pay-as-you-go outbound voice calling service built right into AIM that lets users make calls to landline and cell phones in more than 200 countries. This service complements the existing AIM Talk service, a free PC-to-PC voice calling service available toAIM users. Read more...

• From AOL: AOL Works with Action Engine, Aricent, Infosys, Obopay, and ShoZu for Open Mobile Platform

  AOL announced that five leading application developers – Action Engine, Aricent, Infosys, Obopay, and ShoZu – support the AOL Open Mobile Platform initiative and anticipate delivering a new breed of wireless applications based on the platform. The AOL Open Mobile Platform will provide developers with ready access to the tools and source code they need to build and distribute applications across all major mobile device platforms and operating systems including BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. Read more...

• From AOL: AOL Launches AOL MyMobile All-In-One Application for Wireless Devices

  AOL today announced the availability of a beta version of AOL MyMobile, a new application designed to give users easy access to popular AOL services through their mobile devices. The company also announced today enhancements to AOL Mobile Search that now enable easy access to the service for BlackBerry device users, as well as the extension of the AIM TXT shortcode service across all major carriers in the U.S. These and other AOL services for mobile devices will be demonstrated at this week’s CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas. Read more...

• From AOL: AOL Announces Open AIM 2.0 Developer Program

  AOL today announced the launch of Open AIM 2.0 (http://dev.aol.com/openaim), affording the developer community the freedom to access the AIM instant messaging network with unprecedented ease and to integrate AIM into their web sites and applications in their own ways. Open AIM 2.0 now offers free SDKs and APIs that support third-party chat services, as well as instant messaging applications designed for mobile, enterprise and international use. Web-based messaging providers meebo and eBuddy were the first to sign on to the new program. Read the full press release.

The Latest Articles

• 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...

• Building Widgets on the yourminis Platform

  by Brice Mason
  April 3, 2008
  AOL's recent acquisition of the yourminis widget API (wAPI), a widget development platform, brings an important and exciting new addition to an already rich suite of developer tools from AOL. This article will serve as an introduction to the yourminis widget development platform, a framework and supporting tool set that eases the development of Adobe Flash and Flex-based widgets. Because I'll be walking you through the development of an example application using yourminis, some Flash development knowledge is assumed. However, you do not need particular expertise in Flash to follow along the life cycle of a widget developed using the yourminis platform tools. More...

• MapQuest Data Manager 101: Step 2 - Table Maintenance

  by Brian Knapp
  April 7, 2008
  Welcome back! In the first article of this series, I walked you through the basics of creating and populating a custom table of location data using MapQuest Data Manager. In this article I will take you through the remaining functions that Data Manager offers, and make you a Data Manager expert extraordinaire! More...

• Building an AOL Video Upload Application for Facebook

  by John Fronckowiak
  March 24, 2008
  In this article I show you how to integrate the AOL Video Upload API into a Facebook application. Facebook is a leading social networking site, with over 64 million active users. As of September 2007, it ranked 7th in Internet traffic, according to Alexa. It is also the most popular web site for uploading photos, with 14 million photos uploaded daily. Providing a tool to upload videos to AOL Video has great use potential, and also is illustrative for developers looking to leverage AOL technologies into Facebook. More...
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