AOL Press Release

Popular Online Photo Service Offers Both Private and Public Galleries, Providing Consumers More Choices for Sharing Digital Photos

DULLES, VA—September 27, 2006 – As part of its continued expansion of free features and services for all Internet users, AOL today announced that its popular online photo service, AOL Pictures, will now offer public photo galleries.  The new feature is available today through the AOL Pictures website at http://www.aol.com/pictures. With the addition of public galleries, AOL Pictures® now integrates the benefits of sharing digital photos privately through email or sharing them with anyone on the Web, all conveniently from one place.  In addition, users can browse others’ public galleries, comment on photos, tag photos for easy searching, subscribe to users’ photos and much more.

“Pictures are meant to be shared, and with the public galleries feature on AOL Pictures, we offer more choices than any other site in terms of how and with whom you can share your photos,” said David Liu, Senior Vice President, AOL.  “AOL Pictures fuels social networking by making it simple and fun to add photos to blogs, emails or IM’s, as well as to view and add comments to friends’ public albums.  Combined with unlimited storage of photos in their original resolution, we’re offering a great end-to-end solution for all of consumers’ storing and sharing needs.”

AOL Pictures public galleries features include:

·      Sharing Options – Share entire albums or individual photos – your friends and family can go directly to your public gallery site on the Web.
·      Photo Feeds – “Subscribe” to your friend’s albums if you’d like to be automatically notified when they post new photos.
·      Searchable Tags – Add brief text descriptions, also known as tags, to all of your photos to make them easily searchable by you or others who share your interests.
·      Comments – Add comments to any photo in the public galleries and get feedback on your own public images.

AOL Pictures is a leading online service which provides a comprehensive digital photo solution for consumers who want an easy way to store, organize, share, print and protect all of their favorite images. AOL Pictures offers free and unlimited storage for digital photos in their original resolution, and is available free to anyone on the Internet through the AOL.com® portal (http://www.aol.com/pictures or http://pictures.aol.com), as well as through the AOL® software at Keyword: Pictures. The service is built on the latest Web innovations and technologies, such as AJAX, to provide users with even more ease and convenience with application-like features such as drag-and-drop functionality.

AOL Pictures also recently announced the following features available for consumers:

—Order prints online and then pick them within one hour up at virtually any of the more than 5,200 Walgreens locations across the U.S.  Print prices start as low as $.19 for 4x6 prints and there is no additional service fee.
—As part of AOL’s AIM® Pages next generation community offering, consumers can easily integrate photos they’ve stored on AOL Pictures into their personalized Web page with a new “My Pictures” module. By simply dragging and dropping the My Pictures module onto their AIM Page, consumers can display multiple AOL Pictures albums like a virtual scrapbook.
—Convenient integration with the newest versions of AOL® and AIM® Webmail makes it simple for users to share their favorite pictures by clicking on the “Insert Pictures” button and allowing them to choose from albums on AOL Pictures or from pictures stored on their local computer. Users can also save photo attachments received via email in an AOL Pictures “Shoebox” folder, allowing users to centralize all of their photos.
—A new “Mobile Pictures Upload” Beta feature that allows users to automatically post photos from supported mobile phones directly to their AOL Pictures accounts, making it easier for users to manage all of their camera phone and digital camera pictures in one place. By uploading their mobile photos to their AOL Pictures account, consumers can easily share photos with friends and family via instant messaging or email, edit photos, and order prints and other photo gifts.
—To make it even faster and more convenient to store and share photos online, a new “Auto Upload” Beta feature will enable users to transfer images directly from supported digital cameras to their AOL Pictures accounts.

About AOL
AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs the country’s largest Internet access business, and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC is based in Dulles, Virginia. AOL and its subsidiaries also have operations in Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com.