Tony Conrad announced today that the Sphere team have been acquired by AOL. Sphere approached Adaptive Path in their “early days as a fledgling blog search engine,” looking for assistance in translating their technology and vision into a compelling product. As the interaction designer who lead the engagement, I had the opportunity to collaborate with the co-founders, working to refine their vision for Sphere into the first iteration of  the product.

Since our work together, the evolution of that vision has seen the launch (and rapid success) of the Sphere Related Content Widget, the piling up of premier media partnerships, and a great amount of buzz. With this latest announcement, I’m delighted to see how far the product and team have come since our first sessions around the whiteboard. Adaptive Path is happy to extend our congratulations to the entire Sphere team on this accomplishment.