The AOL Exodus Effect
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Barry Schuler moved to Washington from Silicon Valley to join AOL during its golden days, one of the many top technology professionals the Internet giant recruited to the region. But when the former chief executive left in 2003, he returned to California to become an investor and start a technolo...
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Forward to the (distributed) revolution Comment As the Web 2.0 bandwagon continues its rapidly accelerating path downhill towards the inevitable crash we find ourselves at another turning point in the development of the networked world.â¦
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The Internet most of us experience is not the World of Ends suggested by the end-to-end system design concepts around which the Net was originally architected and built.  Instead we have something that is faster-than-dialup, and faster-than-it-used-to-be; but is not The Net. Instead it is the part of the Net that's left in a pipe that's optimized for television, for one-way few-to-many "content delivery" and for locking users into client roles, while servers labor somewhere else. I just had FTTH (fiber to the home) installed. And, while it's way cool in some ways, it's also uncool in the way it prevents far more business than it generates for itself. It would be great if the carriers made it easy for businesses to grow on the Net, and then suppoted those businesses with services that helped those businesses thrive and grow. But the carriers would rather serve "content" to mass quantities of "consumers" while chaging prohibitive prices for "business-class" services. Hey, it's a mass media mentality, and they have every right to it. But...
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Believe it or not there are still people out there who are skeptical that the Internet is having a real impact in the &#8220;yellow pages&#8221; space. New survey data &#8212; albeit from an online panel &#8212; should silence those skeptics: Local online marketing firm WebVisible conducted an online survey this past August regarding Internet usage to [...]
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By Anonymous  Fruitful times for AOL. which bought a controlling interest in ad- serving company ADTECH. This will extend AOL's global reach to 25 countries. Londoners can now share views about content in thelondonpaper, which has launched an SMS drive.
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AOL's move to New York City is based largely on the hope that by getting closer to advertisers, it will secure a bigger share of an online advertising market that's dominated by its rivals.
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Blog: Nielsen metrics changes benefit AOL over Google by looking at the amount of time users spend on a Web site instead of just unique visitors.
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A Web blockbuster is evolving to try to stay ahead of rivals.
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(InfoWorld) - AOL launched a significant upgrade of AOL News on Tuesday, but it had to turn off some new features so that the site could handle a heavy flow of users. AOL News, a news aggregation site, became slow and unavailable in the afternoon for what an AOL spokeswoman said was a "brief period of time." At mid-afternoon, the site either didn't load or loaded very slowly for several IDG News Service staffers located in different parts of the U.S. AOL expects to reinstate the removed features progressively this evening and during the day Wednesday, the spokeswoman said. At press time, AOL News didn't seem to be experiencing any performance problems. The redesign gave AOL News a blog format that combines traditional news sources, AOL programming, and social news features, such as giving readers the ability to rate and share articles and post comments. Some of the social news features had to be pulled off the site at different points in the morning and afternoon to accommodate heavy traffic, said Lewis D'Vorkin, senior vice president of AOL News & Sports. He stressed that the revamped AOL News is in a beta phase, during which AOL is closely monitoring usage of all sections and features of the site and making the necessary adjustments. "We had large traffic today, some big stories, so we removed some of those [social news] features to better the performance of the site," D'Vorkin said. The site currently does have a feed from the company's Netscape social news site, which offers users a wide variety of interactive features. Having a hot new Web site crushed by a flood of Web traffic is almost a point of pride with the Web 2.0 set, but a company the size of AOL should be able to do better, said Rich Miller, an analyst with Web analysis firm Netcraft. "They've got so much infrastructure and have launched large services before, so if they're having trouble, I wouldn't be bowled over by their reliability," he said. Asked if AOL was caught by surprise by the intensity of Tuesday's traffic, D'Vorkin replied that it was not. "Nothing surprises me and nothing catches me off guard," he said. The AOL News redesign is groundbreaking as a "mass market" news site that adopts a blog format with a broad set of interactive, Web 2.0, social news features, he said. It brings together features that AOL has been testing and providing for several years, he said. "We have developed a very unique site," he said. "It's exciting to learn and present news in a vastly different way." Robert McMillan in San Francisco contributed to this story.
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Also: Dating faux-pas: Stealing other people's profiles. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Also: U.S. cyberwar games turn into hacker melee. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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DULLES, Va. -- The walls surrounding America Online Inc.'s well-manicured gardens are crumbling: AOL is abandoning its strategy of exclusivity and will free much of its music, sports, and other programming to nonsubscribers, in hopes of boosting ad sales.
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Web sites promising to find the best travel deals have online travel agents wondering if they have a new friend or enemy. For consumers, however, choices are rising
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Internet users are traveling across the world from their living rooms: A new study finds that 45 percent of adult American online users have taken advantage of features that permit virtual tours of another location.
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Americaâs largest Internet Service Provider has good news for the web users. They say that AOL subscribers are getting fewer spam mails than in recent times.
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AOL will be getting a dose of Cramerica.
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Also: Virtual golf takes over cubicle life. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.