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2 items tagged “ficlets”

2009

ficlets memorial. Here’s a great argument for Creative Commons—AOL shut down Ficlets without providing an archive or export tool, but the license meant Ficlets co-creator Kevin Lawver could scrape and preserve all of the content anyway.

# 14th January 2009, 10:02 pm / aol, archive, creativecommons, data, ficlets, kevinlawver, preservation

2007

Ficlets (via) AOL’s first application to launch on Rails, and their first application to accept OpenIDs as well as AOL screen names.

# 10th March 2007, 5:41 pm / aol, ficlets, openid, openidconsumer, rails