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More from BusinessNEW YORK (AP) — AOL wants to become your digital warehouse.
Its BlueString service, announced Monday, is intended as a repository for all your media files. It'll even keep track of collections at competing sites like Yahoo Inc.'s Flickr, and let you create and share slide shows combining photos, video and songs no matter where they are stored.
The free offering at www.bluestring.com represents yet another effort by AOL to break out of its historic "walled garden" of contents.
Users with an e-mail address can sign up for 5 gigabytes of storage through Xdrive, which AOL bought in 2005.
Flickr will be the only third-party site initially supported, though AOL plans to have other tools available when those sites offer the necessary programming.
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