Happy New Year to everyone at AOL!

We are already into 2007 in the UK (where I am, as I write this post).

In 2006, AOL Silicon Valley had another great year – launching lots of products that increased page views, helped on member retention and generated unique page views. From Webmail to Blogs, Topspeed to SLM, dMoz to Polls, AOL Pictures to WooHoo – these are just a sample of many new launches. Who can forget “Glasses on, Glasses off” on UnCut Video – a product well into beta now., but not even started until early in 06 Magnet kicked off, and the Feeds team launched some great new beta services. And we increased focus on international – with localized versions launching the same day in many web products. The China portal launched, and the India Portal reached internal Alpha. Finally our team in Irvine focused on many areas, including advanced image recognition technology.

We also continue to have great support from people behind the scenes – Tammy, Sheli and Candace are awesome! Our Facilities team, our IC support team, a responsive Ops team, as well as our security team all make our campus tick!

All in all a great 06, and look forward to 2007!

Thank you.

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Anonymous said…

Happy New Year All .. Wish you all the best of 2007 personally and as part of the AOL SV and Irvine Family !

January 1, 2007 at 12:06 PM

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