"Miller is a well-regarded executive who did a good job at AOL and is seen as an Internet visionary," Aggrawal said.
Jonathan Miller at Yahoo ?!?! OMFG, they'e doomed :-) Expect a message kind of "I'm a happy user of Yahoo since 1996" :-)
Wednesday 3 December 2008
By glazou on Wednesday 3 December 2008, 07:46
"Miller is a well-regarded executive who did a good job at AOL and is seen as an Internet visionary," Aggrawal said.
Jonathan Miller at Yahoo ?!?! OMFG, they'e doomed :-) Expect a message kind of "I'm a happy user of Yahoo since 1996" :-)
Thursday 30 October 2008
By glazou on Thursday 30 October 2008, 22:37
I guess the title says it all.
Friday 26 October 2007
By glazou on Friday 26 October 2007, 13:16
Apparently, the drinks were a bit too alcoholic (password is "aollover") :-)
Wednesday 3 October 2007
By glazou on Wednesday 3 October 2007, 06:38
Still alive, but I've seen more attracting changelogs...
Tuesday 4 September 2007
By glazou on Tuesday 4 September 2007, 10:34
AOL recently announced that they switched from Kaspersky to McAfee as their free anti-virus. This raised two problems :
Warning : the contents following this warning section were removed from this post at 14:30+0200 on Kaspersky Labs' request. I replied the following :
1. if I were you, I would seriously reconsider this decision because people who got Kaspersky through AOL are _all_ going to uninstall your product. They got it for free anyway, and you were paid by AOL for that anyway. This set of "free customers" is excellent in terms of PR and buzz. Furthermore, people who got your product through AOL got no direct notification of any sort from AOL neither from Kaspersky. It means that they started discovering their antivirus does not work for a strange reason (cannot download a file error &x000008C or something) and they understand NOTHING about it. They're probably worried, and UPSET. That's bad for Kaspersky. What you probably want is to show how good at detecting viruses your technology is, not really how painful it is for YOUR customers because AOL dropped a contract with you...
At 16:24+0200, Kaspersky Labs mailed me back : "please put the page back again. AOL users should be able to update."... Mucho kudos to Kaspersky Labs !
At his point, you probably consider Kaspersky takes room for nothing on your hard-disk and are ready to uninstall it. DON'T DO IT !!! Just do the following to get your updates back :
C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\AOL\AVP6\Data
and the name of the
file is aol-updcfg.xml
<site2 url="ftp://download.newaol.com/avs/update/mirror/" diff_url="diffs" weight="10000001" region="*" /> <site2 url="http://download.newaol.com/avs/update/mirror/" diff_url="diffs" weight="10000000" region="*" />
Done... You should see your update go fine as usual. /* Enjoy */
Monday 23 April 2007
By glazou on Monday 23 April 2007, 11:20
David Gang is back on the job market and six AOL or ex-AOL friends sent me an email during my week of vacation to let me know :-)
Wednesday 14 March 2007
By glazou on Wednesday 14 March 2007, 03:20
Enfin des nouvelles de Stéphane Treppoz, ça nous manquait vraiment de ne plus le croiser à la cantine d'AOL à Neuilly avec une caméra collée à ses basques. L'homme à la chemise blanche pour qui les collaborateurs ne sont jamais là pour rapporter des problèmes mais trouver les solutions vient de se recaser dans la chaussure sur le Web grâce à l'excellence de sa vision stratégique et son expérience financière. Comment ça je suis cynique ? Meuh non, meuh non... Il a juste planté AOL France en ne croyant pas du tout bien trop tard à l'ADSL, a refusé avec son équipe de croire au WiFi, a embauché à tours de bras comme au meilleurs moments de la web bubble 1.0, a eu les opens bars en boîte de la dite-web bubble. La totale quoi. La fin a été un peu moins glorieuse que le début...
Il y a peu, je parlais ici de la chaussette sur le Web dans un article Totalement Crétin. Est-ce qu'il se trouvera quelqu'un pour suggérer à Treppoz qu'une acquisition de chaussetteonline.fr serait peut-être une belle synergie ?
Au fait, vous je ne sais pas mais moi, je ne pourrais pas acheter des chaussures sur le web sans les avoir essayées avant en boutique... Je trouve donc que si le BUSINESS model lui semble bon, le modèle tout court a un léger plomb dans l'aile même s'il pourrait fonctionner et gagner de l'argent. A la différence des américains, peu de français ont cent miles de route à faire pour trouver un magasin de chaussures décent...
Tuesday 23 January 2007
By glazou on Tuesday 23 January 2007, 12:49
revolutionhealth.com vs. webmd.com ! Steve Case vs. David Gang ! Wow !-)
Wednesday 17 January 2007
By glazou on Wednesday 17 January 2007, 17:01
You know, some things never change... First Cool URIs never change. Then incompetence at AOL never changes. Amazing, truely amazing.
Sunday 14 January 2007
By glazou on Sunday 14 January 2007, 20:24
Unfortunatey, nothing to be very proud of...
Friday 17 November 2006
By glazou on Friday 17 November 2006, 15:10
" Miller (...) discovered he was being replaced after a reporter called AOL asking about Falco's appointment " -- News.com
Friday 3 November 2006
By glazou on Friday 3 November 2006, 00:07
En fait, j'en connais deux que cela doit énerver prodigieusement les "dizaines de millions de dollars" de Mozilla. Le premier, c'est David Gang also known as Der Likidator. Le second, c'est Jonathan Miller, qui doit se mordre les doigts d'avoir écouté David Gang. Et en fait, cela me réjouit assez d'imaginer que cela les énerve :-)
Saturday 14 October 2006
By glazou on Saturday 14 October 2006, 08:52
The Boxely™ UI Toolkit (AOL's xul with a fast graphics engine and enhanced primitives, Hewitt and Lucier worked on it) is now available for download... I want to dive into that beast, just for fun.
Sunday 1 October 2006
By glazou on Sunday 1 October 2006, 16:56
Faire le tri dans ses photos, en découvrir une qu'on n'a jamais vue, ne pas reconnaître instantanément où et quand elle a été prise, puis enfin se souvenir, et finalement exploser de rire.
Friday 15 September 2006
By glazou on Friday 15 September 2006, 14:31
Ted Leonsis finally gives up...
Tuesday 5 September 2006
By glazou on Tuesday 5 September 2006, 12:56
A lot of us already use the excellent antivir, and now AOL offers Kaspersky6 for free. All you need is an email address to receive the activation code. Should you need a temporary address forwarding to your real address, go there. (Source: Nicolas Pioch)
Thursday 8 June 2006
By glazou on Thursday 8 June 2006, 10:50
You may have heard of Boxely from Joe Hewitt's blog. But that's already History. Corey Lucier, an AOL guy I briefly worked with in 2003 on a gecko-based project codenamed Anvil that was (of course) axed by David Gang (aka Der Likidator), has a very interesting tech blog about his projects and ideas, and a superb requirements list for Boxely.
Monday 6 March 2006
By glazou on Monday 6 March 2006, 17:37
AOL Brazil shutting down 100%. Comment from a brazilian reader, sent by private email:
" The brazilian subsidiary of AOL is closing their services next march 17th. It definitely won't be missed at all over here. "
Business as usual at AOL...
By glazou on Monday 6 March 2006, 15:32
I can already hear people saying "wow, nice move" when they will read
" What can I do with the AIM SDK? This code allows you to add AIM functionality into the programs that you create. Or, you can create your own AIM Custom Client. "
And I can also already hear them saying "pffff, assholes, so they understood nothing at all?" after one single click:
" Developers are not permitted to build Custom Clients that are multi-headed or interoperable with any other IM network. "
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