It's easy to forget when one article says AOL is <add unkind words>

We had some good press articles this week on AOL products developed by the teams here.... Yet one or two negative ones seem to get more attention. One (the MP3 incident) was probably well deserved by us, since it was wrong.

Webmail and Websuite

Webmail got some good press coverage in Infoworld this week, which talked about the latest beta. This came out of no official press release, and was picked up by other websites and press. They liked the search features. "AOL tests search-enhanced Webmail"

Also, the Europe teams sent kudo's to the Websuite team on meeting the beta dates for the European free AOL mail rollout.. Great work!

AOL Pictures

We had loads of coverage for AOL Pictures. Among the headlines "AOL's AJAX Powered Photo Sharing Site Adds In-Store Printing Service", "Online photo print service site from AOL" and "AOL, Walgreens in Digital Photo Pact". In general, great coverage of the AOL Pictures product, especially when they mention AJAX and Web 2.0 technology.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have my head in the sand and think "everyone is so cool about AOL". I know for sure we have a long way. With the upcoming developer conference (planned for December), the sponsoring of Topcoder, and many other things, we are going to get there.

Also, if you see a blog article that doesn't mention us (e.g. the recent Google Web Photo offering on techcrunch)... let me know. I'll email the blogger, and tell them.

Comments

Anonymous said…

Hi Will, I just came across this blog entry:

http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2006/06/photobucket_leads_photo_sharin.html

I would have expected AOL Pictures to have have ranked somewhere on the list, but it isn't even mentioned. I'm not sure where the data comes from, but it would be interesting to know.

James

June 22, 2006 at 10:38 PM

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