News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AIM AV.

Re:AIM AV by dangoldin on Thursday May 05, 2011 @11:42PM (#2519919)
"note: this app is for internal AOL use only"

I wonder if this is some brilliant marketing ploy.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AIM AV by vnorby on Thursday May 05, 2011 @11:51PM (#2519942)
It's definitely a ploy. If they wanted to test it with just their employees, they would have put it behind their firewall.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AIM AV by alex1 on Thursday May 05, 2011 @11:59PM (#2519960)
Back in the late 90's and early 00's, I remember discovering a bunch of "internal" AOL sites. Even after posting about them on forums, AOL didn't seem to care much (unless they could be used to steal accounts).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AIM AV by joelandren on Friday May 06, 2011 @03:16AM (#2520253)
And would have forgone the splash page.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AIM AV by mgkimsal on Friday May 06, 2011 @06:54AM (#2520605)
unless they mean only for use on AOL's network, and not cross-network like with gtalk or msn chat. It's worded just awkwardly enough that I could see non-techies making that wording mistake.
[ Parent | on HN ]