AOL's AIM Service Teams with Facebook, LinkedIn, Six Apart and Glam.com to Bring People Together in Real-Time.

DULLES, Va. -- Invites Bloggers, Podcasters, Consumers and Small Business Owners to Add AIM Presence to Their Web Sites with Free Licensing From AIM.com

Top blogging, media and social networking services are teaming up with AOL to bring the AIM service directly into their communities, integrating users' online status and giving them one-click access to real time communications whenever they like. AOL's new partners, including Facebook, Inc., LinkedIn Corporation, Six Apart, Inc. and Glam.com, Inc. join a growing list of sites and services that are integrating AIM 'presence' and the massive reach of the AOL network to let users see when friends, family members, colleagues and contacts are available for text, live voice and/or streaming video chat ( http://www.aim.com ).

Today AOL also announced that it is giving bloggers, podcasters, consumers and small businesses the ability to add AIM presence and one-click access to the AIM(R) service to their Web sites free of charge. Called AIM(R) Presence ( http://www.aim.com/presence ), the new program offers a free distribution license and lets sites and services publish AIM presence by simply cutting and pasting a line of HTML code into their Web pages. The program uses the familiar Running Man icon to indicate presence so that visitors can see when others are online and available to communicate.

"The AIM service should be everywhere our users are and want to be, from blogs and shopping sites to professional and social networking services," said Chamath Palihapitiya, vice president and general manager, AIM and ICQ, America Online, Inc. "With the new AIM Presence program, we are taking this commitment to a deeper level, enabling everyone from bloggers and podcasters to small businesses to tap our network's reach and connect with key audiences in real time."

Facebook, LinkedIn, Six Apart, Glam.com Join Growing List of AIM-Enabled Communities.

Effective today, Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com ), an online directory that connects people through social networks at high schools, universities and colleges, has selected AOL to be its exclusive provider of instant messaging and presence technologies. Facebook will build AIM presence and the AIM service into users' profile pages on Facebook.com, enabling them to share online status and initiate IM sessions from within the service.

In addition, AOL has selected LinkedIn, a network that enables professionals to find jobs, people and opportunities through their existing network of business relationships, as its preferred provider of business profiles for the AIM service. In turn, AOL will be the sole provider of instant messaging services for LinkedIn ( http://www.linkedin.com ), which will integrate AIM presence to enable its 3.8 million users to communicate with their connections in real time. AIM users will be able to add their LinkedIn connections to their AIM(R) Buddy List(R) feature with one click, and to instantly invite contacts from their AIM Buddy List feature to connect on LinkedIn.

Also announced today, Six Apart ( http://www.sixapart.com ), a leading provider of weblogging (blogging) software and services best known for its Movable Type publishing platform, TypePad service and LiveJournal community, has formalized its integration of the AIM service within its growing community. Under the agreement, Six Apart will empower its over 11 million bloggers to share their AIM presence information on their blogs so that readers, fellow bloggers and media can easily be in touch.

Finally, Glam.com ( http://www.glam.com ), a new web site offering magazine-quality fashion and beauty editorial with embedded e-commerce, has selected the AIM service as its exclusive real time communications partner. Glam.com will give its users the ability to register their AIM(R) Screen Name as part of their Glam profile and will give them the ability to connect via text, voice or video for a more social shopping experience. Glam will also add an "IM this" button to its pages to let users share images and links to hot finds or great deals, making the online shopping experience more fun and interactive.

AOL extends its commitment to connecting communities.

Facebook, LinkedIn, Six Apart and Glam.com join ranks with Apple Computer, Inc., Plaxo, Inc., IPCelerate, Inc., Intellisync Corporation, CareerBuilder, Inc., Ruckus Network, Inc., Pivot Solutions and Thomson Financial in connecting communities of IM users. These sites users' will also be able to chat with at-work IM users on enterprise networks from members of the AIM(R) Enterprise Federation program, including Jabber, Inc., Parlano, Inc., Antepo, Inc., Omnipod, Inc., Reuters, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.

To learn more about the new free AIM Presence licensing program for individuals and small businesses, please go to ( http://www.aim.com/presence/faq.adp ). To learn more about AIM's commercial presence program, please contact [e-mail].

About The AIM(R) Service

With more than 42 million active users in the U.S. alone, the AIM(R) service ( http://www.aim.com ) is at the center of one of the largest and most dynamic online communities. The AIM service is an integrated communications client that is available for use on computers, mobile phones and other handheld devices. It offers instant messaging, email and mobile texting as well as a variety of voice calling and streaming video services. Features include a Plaxo-enabled AIM(R) Address Book and integrated access to the AOL(R) Explorer, AOL(R) Mail, AIM(R) Mail, AIM(R) Talk and AOL(R) TotalTalk services.

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