What once was considered an Internet powerhouse, seems to be dwindling away. AOL is getting rid of (or has already) more than 50 of its projects according to Silicon Alley Insider. We knew about AOL Journals and AOL Hometown, but this list is huge. The dead projects fall into a number of categories including video, audio, messaging, social, toolbars, desktop, safety, mobile, and email. Check SIA’s article for the complete list.
Microsoft Cleans The Panes On Windows Live
Microsoft’s collection of services under the WindowsLive.com banner received a little attention from the company’s makeover artists.
Verizon Cleans Up At Spectrum Auction
Verizon came out as the big winner of the FCC’s 700MHz broadband spectrum auction, spending somewhere between $8 to $10 billion on a huge swath of the coveted C-Block, previously and ironically dubbed "the Google Block."
Google Images Cleans Up Its Act
Google Image Search has undergone a mild facelift, and the search results page is no longer cluttered with text about pictures’ dimensions, file sizes, and url sources. That information is less than a mouse click away, however – positioning your cursor over an image will cause all of the info to appear in a familiar blue box.
Ajax Cleans Up Web Applications
Asynchronous Javascript And XML web applications combine several technologies, in an attempt to match a desktop application experience over the Internet.