Products & Technologies

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Football fans across America can submit their best football fan videos for the chance to win big prizes in a new contest called America Loves Football (www.aol.com/AmericaLovesFootball). Participants can submit user-generated videos using AOL’s new, free user-generated video site, UnCut Video (www.uncutvideo.com). UnCut Video allows users to easily upload their own videos from virtually any video platform, including camcorder, cell phone or digital camera to the America Loves Football site based on that week’s theme, and/or any of the previous weeks’ themes.

America Loves Football will feature seven football-themed video challenges throughout the contest’s 10-week run, with a team of judges selecting the best videos from each of the categories. Winners from each category will compete for the grand prize, which will be determined by public votes.

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOL LLC today announced that it has acquired leading financial news and information search technology company, The Relegence Corporation of New York, NY (http://www.relegence.com).

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Furthering its commitment to providing open access to its popular services, AOL today announced the beta release of new Web-based AIM APIs (application programming interfaces) and embeddable widgets, called AIM Whimsicals, to enable developers to seamlessly integrate Web-based instant messaging functionality for the popular AIM service directly into their Web sites and online communities. Now available at http://developer.aim.com, the new Web AIM APIs and AIM Whimsicals are an extension of AOL’s Open AIM program, which launched in March 2006.

Web AIM® provides developers with the tools to create new and innovative experiences on the Web. The APIs enable developers to integrate the following services and functionality directly into their Web sites:

Dulles, VA and Boston, MA – October 30, 2006—AOL and Brightcove launched today a distribution service that can enable video publishers to sell high-quality video downloads through the AOL Video portal (http://video.aol.com) and receive up to 70% of the revenue generated from their sales. The new service promises to expand the distribution options for video publishers and the choices for consumers.

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It’s Halloween and it’s time to spend time with our favorite horror movies, including classics like Psycho, and more recent scary movies, like the Saw trilogy. So what is it about these flicks that make our hearts race and keep us coming back for more? According to a new survey from AOL Video and Fangoria magazine, it’s the sense of the unknown, cited by the majority of fans (26 percent) as the scariest element in a horror movie.