Comments on: AOL Begins Shutdown Of AOL Pictures, BlueString And Xdrive

By: Did AOL Just Write Down Its Bebo Acquisition? | Sydney Web Design

Did AOL Just Write Down Its Bebo Acquisition? | Sydney Web Design — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:13:16 +0000

[...] Quigo, Tacoda, Third Screen Media). Those could be worth less now as well. And last quarter AOL shut down some businesses, including Xdrive (that is $30 million right [...]

By: Did AOL Just Write Down Its Bebo Acquisition?

Did AOL Just Write Down Its Bebo Acquisition? — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:57:00 +0000

[...] Quigo, Tacoda, Third Screen Media). Those could be worth less now as well. And last quarter AOL shut down some businesses, including Xdrive (that is $30 million right [...]

By: Did AOL Just Write Down Its Bebo Acquisition?

Did AOL Just Write Down Its Bebo Acquisition? — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:52:22 +0000

[...] Quigo, Tacoda, Third Screen Media). Those could be worth less now as well. And last quarter AOL shut down some businesses, including [...]

By: Laura Higginbotham

Laura Higginbotham — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:07:35 +0000

Yes, still have my AOL address but have now opened my Charter email account and trying to get up the gumption to switch. Charging $10 and then decreasing services such as photo storage and now much, much, slower speed just doesn’t make sense to my economically challenged brain. Seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot. I obediently switched to American Greetings and find the program very cumbersome and difficult to navigate through. When I did send photos out, they were never received on the other end. I contacted American Greetings and the rude person on the phone suggested that if I wasn’t happy with them, there were other online photo services I could use.

By: AOL Continues To Splinter Content Into Anti-Portals

AOL Continues To Splinter Content Into Anti-Portals — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:28:38 +0000

[...] Wilson’s star continues to rise at AOL even as other groups continue to shed products and execs. He moves from EVP Programming to President of the newly formed MediaGlow, which controls [...]

By: Matt K. Olson

Matt K. Olson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:08:17 +0000

The Xdrive service will be shutting down on January 12 2009. What will the last three days of Xdrive cost you? Get your music, your pictures, your documents. I would not recommend waiting until the last day. Get it done today…!

I recommend choosing ElephantDrive and to make transferring those digital assets over as easy as possible just click the link http://www.elep...ct.aspx?ici=267 …this is the Xdrive to ElephantDrive migration page.

ElephantDrive is the only solution provider working in cooperation with Xdrive using their Open Xdrive API. While competitors of ElephantDrive may offer discounts on their subscription plans you’ll have to do all the work of transferring your digital assets. ElephantDrive is committed to helping every Xdrive account holder make transitioning their digital assets seamless and transparent by using the Xdrive to ElephantDrive migration page.

ElephantDrive offers packages that are designed to protect the digital assets of individuals, SMBs, and large organizations.

Xdrive consumers with questions about transferring their digital assets over to ElephantDrive can check our Common Questions page.

https://www.ele...tion.aspx#Learn

Matt K. Olson aka XDMOlson
Consultant @ ElephantDrive

By: mj

mj — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:21:13 +0000

REBUTTAL!!!

I take that last post back.

Sure, you can paste from American Greetings Photoworks but after sending the picture, it does not come out on the other end. I sent the email to myself and the picture was not there, just an empty space.

By: mj

mj — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:59:26 +0000

I just did the American Greetings Photoworks transfer, and pasted pictures NO PROBLEM within an email.

Only thing is we can only paste really small (the thumbnail size) or original size (click options, view larger, then right click the larger picture and copy, then paste within body of email.

The old way alowed us to have 3 different sizes but I think I can hang with this.

Peace!

By: Matt K. Olson

Matt K. Olson — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:36:51 +0000

Let me update everyone…

On November 12 2008 Xdrive LLC part of AOL LLC sent out to Xdrive account holders an AOL Official Mail notifying them that the Xdrive service will be shutting down on January 12 2009. On December 12 2008 Xdrive LLC part of AOL LLC sent a second notice to Xdrive account holders.

Check your SPAM box if you don’t see it in your Inbox especially if you have a non AOL email account.

Today is December 21st 2008 so that leaves Xdrive account holders 21 days to get their assets off of the Xdrive service. I would not recommend waiting until the last day. Get it done today…!

ElephantDrive offers packages that are designed to protect the digital assets of individuals, SMBs, and large organizations.

Xdrive consumers with questions about transferring their digital assets over to ElephantDrive can check our Common Questions page.

https://www.ele...tion.aspx#Learn

Matt K. Olson
Consultant @ ElephantDrive

By: In Praise of Bad Times: What we can learn from the last downturn

In Praise of Bad Times: What we can learn from the last downturn — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:02:01 +0000

[...] costs and eliminating any product lines that arenít showing immediate profits. Last week we saw AOL shutter XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile, BlueString and AOL Video Uploads. Innovation at AOL, like most big companies, isn’t seeing much love these days. However the [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:25:35 +0000

This is exactly why we created iForem

More and more people are looking at the Internet to provide them with answers. Unfortunately, what they find are solutions that don’t provide the assurance that their most important and critical content is protected from unauthorized access or worse. You need a flexible choice to secure and protect content which is more critical than most and a solution that is cost effective.

By: AOL Gets Out Of User Generated Video Business | BabyWise

AOL Gets Out Of User Generated Video Business | BabyWise — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:28:44 +0000

[...] is on a product-cutting spree. In addition to the shuttering of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring, the company will also be shutting down the AOL [...]

By: FilesAnywhere

FilesAnywhere — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:59:39 +0000

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By: tom

tom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:00:14 +0000

I just want an address so i can mail AOL back the thousands of crap trial CDs they infesyed my house with.

By: Bob T.

Bob T. — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:14:28 +0000

X-Drive almost always worked great for my. I thought it was a good service. I find it rather irritating that working products like this are initially purchased (for 30 Million no less) only to be trashed. What a waste. All that work gone. Another case of “Bonehead Management” not caring about their customers, users and corporate equity. So what is AOL really good for? Do they have a purpose anymore? (In the last 10 years?) Except for X-drive, I think not. “Tits on a bull… Useless!” And in the end, I get to pay more for cable & high speed internet. Thanks Time Warner. I’m not surprised.

By: Randygland

Randygland — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:48:43 +0000

Writing in caps doesnt prevent us noticing that you must be the only bellend in the world using AOL email… Everyone switched back in 1805, which is probably when you were born.

By: Ad Spending At AOL Down 6 Percent

Ad Spending At AOL Down 6 Percent — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:46:54 +0000

[...] recently overhauled its homepage and decided to shutter a number of services, like AOL Pictures, BlueString and XDrive earlier this year. CrunchBase Information AOL [...]

By: exAOLer

exAOLer — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:16:05 +0000

Another privacy issue for AOL! When you migrate your AOL pictures to Photoworks and if had previously “shared” photos – that persons “shared” photos migrate to your personal folder like they were your own. Not a biggie, but certainly dont think someone who shared pictures previously would want that to happen.

By: 10 Ways to Avoid Emergency When Your Web Services Disappear on You | Technologizer

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:22:27 +0000

[...] Such as AOL’s Xdrive, which is still signing up new customers even though it’s getting ready to shut down by the end of 2008. It never hurts to Google a company you’re thinking about to see if there are reports of its [...]

By: DANGER

DANGER — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:51:17 +0000

SO BASICALLLY WE WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO INSERT PICTURES INTO OUT MAIL FROM AOL? AS OD DEC 31ST?

AND EVERY FILE OF PERSONAL PHOTOS WE HAVE WILL JUST GO POOF???

IS AOL AWARE OF HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY WILL LOOSE IF THEY DO THIS?

HOW CAN THEY TAKE OUR MAIL FROM US? TO SEND FAMILY PICTURES
OF OURSELFS? OR RECIEVE PICTURES ?? WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE HASSLE OF THIS SIGN UP? NOW THEY ARE OFFFERING DIAL UP FOR 9.99?
WHEN DIAL UP WAS FREE?? DOES AOL EVEN HAVE A CLUE THE INPACT THIS WILL HAVE ON DSL SEVICES TO? HECK EVERYONE WILL JUST GO WITH ANOTHER SERVER WHO ALLOWS TO SEND EMBEDDDED IMAGES INTO OUR MAIL……..

OR THOSE OF US WHO RUN TAG LISTS ……….

I KNOW IF AOL TAKES MY MAIL AWAY FROM ME & NOT ALLOWING ME TO INSERT PICTURES TO SEND TO FAMILY.

I WILL GO WITH A SERVER THAT DOES!!!
AOL SEEMS TO BE CUTTING THIER OWWN THROAT!!

PLEASE SOMEONE EMAIL ME AND TELL ME THIS ISNT TRUE??????????

BUT ONLY HAS TO DO WITYH ORDERING ONLINE PHOTOS…………….

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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:55:41 +0000

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By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:19:26 +0000

This is a nice promotion of your services!! I have seen a lot of ads about Nomadesk lately, especially on Techcrunch. However, that being said, why isnt your company sponsoring http://crenk.com?

By: Bubba

Bubba — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:47:10 +0000

Rumor has it AOL tried to line up more elegant (or at least more) migration alternatives but terms were too onerous. It’s not amazing that they were unable to sell xdrive, because xdrive is/was crap.

Witness the fact that you can’t actually download your photos to your computer (a service provided via xdrive); it simply wasn’t working yesterday for any reasonably large number of pictures; I could get only a couple hundred of my 7000+ pictures at a time; and can’t get any at the moment.

Oh, and the “faq” link takes you to an error page that only says “The page you requested could not be found.” Come to think of it; that “answer” pretty well sums things up.

By: AOL To Begin Shutdown Of Pictures, Bluestring, And Xdrive | Advertising Goose

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:26:20 +0000

[...] Arrington wrote at TechCrunch (10/24), “In July we wrote about AOL’s plans to shutter a number of services based on [...]

By: filip

filip — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:29:24 +0000

Hi, full disclosure here, I work for http://www.nomadesk.com

Clearly AOL didn’t go through the effort of providing more elegant migration scenarios to other providers. I’m amazed that they were unable to sell XDrive to a third party. For sure AOL most have been contacted by any of the existing ones.

Anyway, for those who wish to migrate from Xdrive to NomaDesk, here is the simple 2-step approach:

1) Create a NomaDesk Account at http://www.nomadesk.com – just stating the obvious
2) download your XDrive files on the NomaDesk virtual Fileserver on your PC
… you’re done!

http://www.yout...h?v=2hzlcWXY7s4