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Communications
ICQ 7 – Social Messaging Integration with Users' Personal Communication Tool
Tagged: Communications, ICQICQ brings all friends, all updates, all tweets into one place
18 January 2010: ICQ today introduces a new version of its popular IM software, ICQ 7. With ICQ 7, Germany's biggest instant messaging platform offers a Social Messaging client - seamlessly integrating a quick and easy communication experience with real-time updates from content sharing sites and top social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
ICQ 7 presents an optimal integration between the users' personal communication tool and their online social activities. Side by side with the ICQ Contact List users can find a separate tab of real time feeds and updates from their friends in various social networks. Users no longer need to open a browser and log into each and every network they're members in, from now on it's all in their ICQ. Users can also comment on their friends updates from within ICQ and their comments will be posted on the relevant social network automatically.
ICQ 7 today offers integration of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, and is soon to announce the integration of local networks.Read more
AOL Names Brad Garlinghouse as President, Internet and Mobile Communications
Tagged: Corporate, CommunicationsNEW YORK, N.Y. – September 8, 2009 – AOL today named Brad Garlinghouse as President of Internet and Mobile Communications, spearheading AOL’s global efforts to expand the reach of its e-mail and instant messaging. Garlinghouse will also take on an expanded leadership position for the company, heading up AOL’s Silicon Valley operations from its Mountain View campus and serving as the West Coast lead for AOL Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm headed globally by Jon Brod. Garlinghouse was most recently at Silver Lake Partners as an in-house Senior Advisor. Prior to Silver Lake, Garlinghouse spent nearly six years at Yahoo!, where he led that company’s communications and community products. Garlinghouse will report directly to AOL’s Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong.Read more
Brad Garlinghouse to Head AOL’s Internet and Mobile Communications
Tagged: Corporate, Communications
AOL named Brad Garlinghouse as President of Internet and Mobile Communications, spearheading AOL’s global efforts to expand the reach of its e-mail and instant messaging. Garlinghouse will also take on an expanded leadership position for the company, heading up AOL’s Silicon Valley operations from its Mountain View campus and serving as the West Coast lead for AOL Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm headed globally by Jon Brod. Garlinghouse was most recently at Silver Lake Partners as an in-house Senior Advisor. Prior to Silver Lake, Garlinghouse spent nearly six years at Yahoo!, where he led that company’s communications and community products. Garlinghouse will report directly to AOL’s Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong.
AIM Apps Now Support Push Notifications
Tagged: Communications, AIM, iPhone App
Warner Bros. Television Group and AOL Come Together On Socialthing
Tagged: Communications, SocialthingWarner Bros. Television Group to Implement Advanced Suite of Social Networking Services Across Digital Destinations Such as CWTV.com, TheWB.com,KidsWB.com, DCHeroZone.com, Essence.com and Momlogic.com
New York, NY and Burbank, Calif. – May 05, 2009 – AOL today announced that Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) will launch Socialthing, a new online platform for socializing websites across WBTVG’s digital destination businesses, such as CWTV.com, TheWB.com, KidsWB.com, DCHeroZone.com, Essence.com and Momlogic.com. Socialthing leverages the power of AIM’s social graph coupled with advanced community tools to enable social networking publishers to attract new users and keep them engaged on their site. The announcement was made today by Joanna Shields, President of AOL People Networks, and Craig Hunegs, Executive Vice President, Business Management, Warner Bros. Television Group.Read more
