AOL has made an explicit effort to tie social networking to its e-mail service, adding a LifeStream widget to AOL mail. The company also announced a partnership with Facebook, tying its AIM chat with Facebook Chat.
AOL actually added the LifeStream widget shortly after Google announced Google Buzz, an integration of social services into its Gmail program.
“To help you keep on top of your social network, we've added Lifestream to the Mail AIM plug-in," AOL wrote in a blog post. “Lifestream not only allows you to get updates from all your social networks, but also to easily publish your status and broadcast it to your Buddies.
“View updates from your friends, no matter which social network they frequent, including Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube. Flexible privacy settings keep you in control of how you and your social network interact," AOL added.
AOL began integrating Lifestream into AIM in Sept. 2009. Yahoo, for its part, claimed on Tuesday that it had its own social networking hooks (as well as Yahoo Buzz) months ago.
AOL actually added the LifeStream widget shortly after Google announced Google Buzz, an integration of social services into its Gmail program.
“To help you keep on top of your social network, we've added Lifestream to the Mail AIM plug-in," AOL wrote in a blog post. “Lifestream not only allows you to get updates from all your social networks, but also to easily publish your status and broadcast it to your Buddies.
“View updates from your friends, no matter which social network they frequent, including Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube. Flexible privacy settings keep you in control of how you and your social network interact," AOL added.
AOL began integrating Lifestream into AIM in Sept. 2009. Yahoo, for its part, claimed on Tuesday that it had its own social networking hooks (as well as Yahoo Buzz) months ago.
