Friday, April 28, 2006

AOL in the news

My obligatory weekly posting. Not much to say about the development effort as we are hard at work to deliver some features by the end of May. I wanted to share some news clippings and info about AOL this week. Here ya go:

AOL loses and wins in first WWW Dodgeball Tourney - we're looking into doing this in Mountain View (Google HQ is 2 miles away, Yahoo HQ is 3 miles, and MS - Silicon Valley is 2 miles)

AOL Mountain View hosts Dojo Developer Day - May 13th (http://dojotoolkit.org/)

AOL sponsors The Human Race of Silicon Valley

AOL launches bloggingstocks.com
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Friday, April 21, 2006

Have you tried to add a Poll?


 
 
****Update***** 4/25
The redirect that lands people on the poll instead of the journal is fixed. Please let us know if you are still seeing problems.
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What's coming in Release 6

The Journals team has officially kicked off  release 6 work. We're shooting to deliver all of these cool new features/improvments in late may. Susan and Joe will go into more detail on these as we get closer to delivering them.  

Planned for Release 6
Mobile Blogging - send a picture, video, and text to your Journal from a mobile device

Improved AOL Pictures integration - an improved picker and viewer (like flickr slideshows  )

Improved Journals Search -  you'll be able to search an individual journal or all journals

Minor Layout tweaks to support search(as we get ready for improved themes and settings)
More 3rd Party supported sites (details to come)

Tagging beta for IE

Things that may get in  (but no promises)
Custom moods - choose from a list or write your own :-)
Improved Polls integration - have you checked out the beta?

 

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

AOL Mountain View Podcasts

The AOL Mountain View design team, the team that Holly is on, have been recording and publishing podcasts since the  beginning of the year. Check it out at

http://www.podcast.net/show/2658

Or on iTunes


Here's the feed URL.
http://aolmountainview.com/podcast/aol.xml


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r5 is live & the comments feed

Hi everyone, sorry for the long delay in posting. I've made a promise to myself to try and post at least 1 entry per week. We'll see how I do. ;-)

As Joe, Susan, and John have mentioned already release 5 is live. A big congratualations to the development and qa teams for working so hard to get this release out the door on time. This is our 3rd release in our new "Agile" development process. For those counting, we've released new features 3 times in little over 4 months. That's huge by AOL standards, but I think we'll see teams pick up on this kind of process in the near future.

FYI - We've also fixed the Canada locale as a few minutes ago.

As for r5, I really like the public list page and I hope you all do too.  I also would like to mention another little addition that was over looked. We've added a comment feed for entries. For instance:

When looking at the source of Joe's last posting, http://journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke/entries/1283

You will see the link tag for the comment feed
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Comments feed" href="http://journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke/entries/1283/atom.xml">


If you're using Firefox you can see the option to subscribe to the "comments feed". You can use an feed reader, like MyAOL, to read the feeds by adding the permalink, http://journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke/entries/1283,  to the entry.

We're working on an update to the "subscribe" window so that the comment feed is available in there as well.




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