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AOL up 43%
Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:05 pm
Seems like they have started selling their organs and it's worth a lot more than the body as a whole.
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Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:19 pm to TheHiddenFlask
"You've got mail."
What is it that killed AOL?
What is it that killed AOL?
Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:20 pm to wegotdatwood
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What is it that killed AOL?
t1 lines
Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:33 pm to wegotdatwood
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What is it that killed AOL?
The same thing that kills most companies, failure to adapt.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:39 pm to TheHiddenFlask
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The same thing that kills most companies, failure to adapt.
or mis-adapting...
Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:40 pm to TheHiddenFlask
Just curious b/c I remember everyone using it. Was it ever a web browser or just a website?
Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:44 pm to wegotdatwood
it was a vehicle to connect to the internet via a online suite of software. once cable companies started integrating services aol was on borrowed time.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 4:58 pm to wegotdatwood
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Just curious b/c I remember everyone using it. Was it ever a web browser or just a website?
it was basically a graphical bulletin board service before the "web" existed. There were others as well, Compuserve and Prodigy and a few others. There were special interest groups, chats, company "sites", etc. The browser/html was probably the first blow. Shortly after the browser came along, ISP's starting popping up offering dial-up connections to the Internet. AOL offered some Internet services early on, but they were pretty crappy if I remember correctly. They bought Netscape but you still had to login to the service to hop on the Internet. Then, as mentioned, broadband probably was the final blow.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 5:01 pm to jcole4lsu
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it was a vehicle to connect to the internet via a online suite of software. once cable companies started integrating services aol was on borrowed time.
AOL just became pointless at that point.
I could either pay AOL all this money to access the web through their portal (keywords and all that shite) OR
I could just get my own access and go wherever the hell I wanted to go. AOL could have taken all that user data/traffic and done just about anything with it from being like Yahoo, social website, ebay etc.
ETA: Guy above pretty much got it plus broadband. Double death blow.
This post was edited on 4/9/12 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 4/9/12 at 5:08 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
AOL could have survived as a yahoo look alike, but they were unable to do so for whatever reason.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 5:43 pm to jcole4lsu
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AOL could have survived as a yahoo look alike, but they were unable to do so for whatever reason.
If I had to guess, it would be shitty programming (like Myspace) coupled with the fact that when someone said "AOL" you said, "Remember that dial up sound?"
I think it forever tarnished the perception that whatever product AOL could offer, it would be old/inferior, etc.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 5:51 pm to TheHiddenFlask
Posted on 4/9/12 at 6:05 pm to I Love Bama
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Someone made a lot more than 40% today...
LINK
A little bit of poo has to come out when you open up etrade and see that bad boy.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 6:06 pm to TheHiddenFlask
A brick, I would shite.
Posted on 4/9/12 at 8:58 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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If I had to guess, it would be shitty programming
I think they had a good platform for what it did, but the Internet was a complete discontinuity and they were dead men walking at that point. Their response could have been much better, and they could have stayed away from the Time-Warner merger, but I don't think anything they could have done would have allowed them to maintain the leadership position they had.
It will be interesting to watch the next 10 years to see where the leaders of today are. Legacy becomes a big ol' anchor for tech companies and they try to continually build on what they have when adding new stuff. Makes it harder and longer to innovate/adapt.
FWIW, Google and Facebook appear to not really give a shite who they piss off when they change something, that may go along way to help ensure longevity.
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