Sunday, October 26, 2008

AOL shut down three on-line services

AOL will close its AOL Pictures photo hosting services and Bluestring, as well as its online file storage services, Xdrive. Stored in the service of all of these things will be in December 31, 2008 after the disappearance. AOL Pictures photo service will be American Greetings (courtesy of the United States company), PhotoWorks services can choose to get a new home. However, users must be in the June 30, 2009 prior to the signing of this new initiative to restore the services of their own photos.
For each user, preferably by the end of this year, log on to your AOL service and their own photos or files to download it. All three services at the end of this year will provide a large number of downloads. Pay can also be archived DVD discs. Xdrive users can also search for their business to other online storage company.

PhotoWorks Web site users to select documents as the exclusive online destination is limited. PhotoWorks is a good photo Web site. However, the functions of this site is not the most modern. American Greetings is because it's part of the service is mainly used to create print gifts of photographs. However, the number of photos to the company Vice President Sally Babcock, we will be transferred from the 50 users to print photos, and provide other special Christmas gift.

Xdrive users pay in 2009 to the beginning of the refund. The billing service will be on November 5, 2008 termination.

With regard to the closure of the service, AOL said in a statement that, although these services over the years has always been our product portfolio is very important, however, AOL to the Web-based, advertising-focused company has been changed so that we give serious consideration to these products And continue to maintain that these hosted or subscription-based services do not meet our customers or our long-term interests of the business.

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