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Web 2.0 Summit: Open AOL

AOL has 'enjoyed' the unenviable position for many progressive thinkers in the web space of being the epitome of the closed garden approach, but in the last year they have managed to pull off a complete change of philosophy. Today's session coincided with announcements of AOL's continued move to openness and detailed in particular the APIs and open approach around AIM and video search.
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developer.aim.com

dev.aol.com

If even AOL are becoming open (and in a major way to boot) what does that say about shops that remain closed?

The presentation could have done with more usage examples but this is early days and work to date is still impressive.

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