AOL Journals Three Year Anniversary
August 5th, 2006
I posted this earlier on my work blog as well, that resides on AOL Journals.
I learned of this from Magic Smoke’s blog, that AOL Journals is on its third year in production. Happy Birthday AOL Journals!
…The official launch date for AOL Journals was August 21, 2003 (Journals went beta July 29, 2003)…”
- Joe Loong
Well I like to take this milestone to just look back and see what AOL Journals has gone through and see where it can go next.
- AOL Journals Beta/Initial Release: “You’ve Got Blogs! - A first look at AOL Journals, Part One ~ The Computer Vet”
- AOL Journals Beta/Initial Release: “Ant’s Eye View: Here They Come: AOL Journals Goes (Sort Of) Live”
- AOL Journals Beta/Initial Release: “Not A Dollarshort: AOL Journals”
- AOL Journals Beta/Initial Release: “UltraNormal > Super Secret Agent Revealed!” (Kevin Lawver, explains where he disappeared to NY when he talked about the AOLJ Product)
- AOL Journals R2 Release: “R2 Is Here” (Ads)
- AOL Journals Ads: “AOL Journals: You’ve Got Ads”
- AOL Journals Ads: “On the AOL Journals advertising mini-brouhaha - The Jason Calacanis Weblog”
- AOL Journals R3 Release: “Release 3 (R3) Successfully Installed to Production” (Buddy List rostering, Notify AOL on posts, blog about this link)
- AOL Journals R3 Rollback: “Release 3 (R3) Successfully Rolled Back From Production” (Oops! Broke buddylist rostering… )
- AOL Pictures Feature: “Permalinks???” (Helps AOL Journalers link to their Pictures
- AOL & Blogging: (Ted Leonsis, AOL VP): “Ted’s Take - Why am I doing a blog?”
- AOL Journals & Ted & Joe Loong: “Ted’s Blog, Thoughts Stemming From” (Joe Loong responds to community regarding Ted Leonsis not using AOLJ)
- AOL Journals R4 Release: “R4 Release Launched” (Private Journals, buddylist rostering fixed)
- AOL Journals R5 Release: “Journals Release R5 Is Live!” (About Me, increases to 25,000 character limit, previously 1000 character; A clean404 page for Journals not found)
- AOL Journals R6 Release: “Journals R6 Release Successfully Installed” (HTML Tag whitelisting, AOL beta tests, Technorati Tagging, AOL Journals header, Integrated Search)
- AOL Journals R7 Release: “Journals R7 Release Installed, Plus Entry Alerts Status” (Mobile Blogging, Embedded Video, AOL Pictures WooHoo!, and User-friendly [SEO] URLs)
- AOL Journals Three Year Anniversary: August 21, 2006.
Well that was my recap over the past three years based on what I can dig up in news articles. I love AOL journals and specifically the communication over its development (I wish Blogger was that straightforward). Anyhow, I am on the hunt lately to see what else AOL Journals can do to get better, so go ahead and bother Joe Loong over at Magic Smoke. 
Update: Thanks Kevin, I added you in that timeline thingamajiggy. 
Thanks for the shout-out!
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