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AOL Launches 2008 Games Toolbar

AOL launched a 2008 Games toolbar, which lets users easily get all the latest Olympic medal counts, schedule information and video clips. A button gallery lets users customize the toolbar options. Download the new 2008 Games toolbar, available for Internet Explorer only.

Truveo Developer Challenge Showcases 93 New Ways To View Video Online

Glastonbury, Conn. – August 4, 2008 – TopCoder®, Inc., the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development, today announced the winners of the Truveo Developer Challenge. Competing for a prize pool of $100,000, developers were set loose to build custom applications that use Truveo’s open API, http://developer.truveo.com, to build the next great video search application. Competitors leveraged Truveo, the world’s leading video search engine with a continuously-updated index of more than 200 million Web videos, to create 93 powerful new applications in just over two months of competition.

Bebo and Endemol Team Up with Trident for Integration on Ultimate Reality Adventure Series

LONDON - 31 July, 2008: - Trident chewing gum, sponsor of Bebo’s leading online interactive reality show The Gap Year, produced by Endemol UK, has developed a series of innovative ‘Mess With Your Head’ moments which are being uniquely integrated into the travel experiences of UK traveller Dave Brett across the series as he pursues his dream gap year.

The ‘Mess With Your Head’ (MWYH) moments are being dispersed randomly throughout Dave’s travels to surprise him along the way and truly mess with his head! These challenging, and often comical, moments are all captured on camera, forming an integral part of Dave’s travels and online video blogs which form part of the series. With its global backdrop, Bebo’s Gap Year has already presented a host of unique situations and opportunities perfect for unleashing the MWYH moments, with more to come!

Survey Finds More People Addicted to Email

Do you check your email on vacation, while driving or in your pajamas? According to AOL Mail's fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, you're not alone. Nearly half (46%) of email users said they're hooked on email - up from 15% last year.

It’s 3 A.M. – Are You Checking Your Email Again?

New York, NY – July 30, 2008 – If you check your email in the middle of the night or even while driving, you’re not alone. According to AOL Mail’s fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, nearly half (46%) of email users said they’re hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email four or more times a day (up from 45% in 2007). One in five said they check their email more than 10 times a day. Full results can be found at http://www.CrazyForEmail.com.

More than one-quarter (27%) are so overwhelmed by their email that they’ve either declared “email bankruptcy,” deleting all their email messages to start anew, or they’re seriously thinking about doing so. Maybe it’s because 20% of users said they have over 300 emails in their inboxes!