AOL’s promotion of online identities manager Socialthing continues this week by tying it in across corporate sibling Warner Bros. Television Group. The deal also suggests a new closeness with its fellow Time Warner subsidiary, even as the company moves to spin off AOL (NYSE: TWX). In past years, WBTVG and AOL would often downplay any relationship to each other. But as AOL tries to build up its social net tools, alongside its own programming, the Time Warner unit needs all the friends it can get. In this case, WBTVG will use Sociathing to insert news of its programming on AOL
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