AOL Unveils New AOL Music Now Developers Site
Open API Release Offers Developers And Fans Tools To Publish
Custom Charts, Playlists, Artist Info And More From AOL's Web-Based
Music Service, Now In Preview
Dulles, VA - May 11, 2006 - In a step further empowering
music fans to customize their
online experience, AOL LLC today announced the launch of the AOL
Music Now
Web Services (
http://developer.aolmusicnow.com ) developer site. The new site
offers tools to enable web developers, bloggers, and individual
music fans to add custom feeds of artist, album, chart, playlist
and other dynamic music information from AOL Music Now directly to
other sites including their own web site, blog, or AIM Pages beta
profile ( http://www.aimpages.com ).
The AOL(R) Music Now
Web Services release builds on AOL's recent
efforts in the open API space including developer releases for the
AIM(R) service, MapQuest(R) and a long
history of third party
development for the popular Winamp(R) player, with more than 50
million unique users worldwide (comScore Media Metrix, March
2006). The site provides easy to follow instructions and
documentation and utilizes standard RSS feeds (Really Simple
Syndication). Users can subscribe to AOL Music Now data feeds
through My AOL (a compliant RSS Feed reader) or website to
create and publish dynamically updated music features within
sites and applications like email, blogs, social networking
pages, and the new AIM(R) Pages service, which is currently in
beta.
Laptop Battery "AOL Music Now Web Services opens a world of new opportunities
to take digital music beyond the borders of one application or web
site," said Neil Smith, Vice President, AOL Music Now. "From the
tens of millions who use Winamp and visit AOLmusic.com each month,
we know there is a tremendous amount of passion - not only for
experiencing music but also expressing with it. These simple tools
for AOL Music Now, empower developers and fans to take that
expression to a new level."
Katz runs the company with 22 paid employees and 300 volunteers who give technical support to new users and are compensated with free memberships (remember those days at AOL ). He rents space in two AT&T data centers, one in Manhattan, another inSecaucus, N.J., with $700, 000 worth of computer equipment, end servers from Dell Computer and five IBM Unix servers. The $2 million annual payroll is his biggest expense.
Thinkpad AOL Music Now LLC is a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of AOL
LLC. The web-based music subscription service was acquired from
Circuit City in November 2005. Offering visitors the option to
purchase or subscribe to access more than two million tracks of
music from all the major and more than one hundred independent
labels, AOL Music Now is currently available in preview with a
broad release expected this summer.
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About AOL LLC AOL LLC and its subsidiaries operate a leading
network of Web brands and the largest Internet access subscription
service in the United States. Web brands include the AOL.com(R)
website, AIM(R), MapQuest(R) and Netscape(R). AOL offers a range of
digital services in the areas of education, safety and security,
communications and music. The company also has operations in Europe
and Canada. AOL, which is based in Dulles, Virginia, is a
majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc.
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