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AOL announces integrated email

Posted on 10 September 2008 by


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Anyone see an odd irony that the Berlin Wall fell 19 years before AOL today reveals to your Mom (and other less techy subscribers) that there is indeed a world of email beyond the AOL gates. Starting today AOL adds the ability to retrieve email from sources other than AOL.

If you  have Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts now you can configure AOL to automatically retrieve email from those accounts and deposit it directly into your AOL inbox.

Forget for a moment that other services like Gmail have offered this option for quite some time already. Focus instead on the other announcement in AOL’s press release which states that coming soon they’ll integrate all your social media activity into one AOL centric portal. Imagine a perfect world where you never need to leave AOL to tell Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed and LinkedIn friends that you’re eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich ! Very exciting stuff.

Email Aggregation Launches on AOL.com

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  • hthroop

    NB: The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, which was 19 years ago.

  • http://www.s-consult.com/index.php Wayne Schulz

    oops – thanks for catching this. Corrected it (I totally have to rely on Wikipedia for all this stuff)