Updated 02-3-2007. It’s a different plot but the story has the same ending: No matter how AOL dresses it up, they can’t make the donkey that their washed-up business is look a horse. The only thing that’s changed is their approach. Rather than siphon money right out of your checking or credit card account for […]
Edited 2-03-2007 and 5-19-2007. Everyone’s talking about how “AOL is in the iPod business now.” AOL unveiled this hideous mp3-playing monstrosity at the CES show in LA like it was the cure for cancer. It got people murmuring about “how much AOL has changed” and “how innovative” they are and whether or not this shiny […]
Tom Spring of PC World did a year-end roundup of the hardest online services to cancel. Which company do you think took money from him after he canceled all three of his accounts before the trials were over, then denied culpability based on “service reps errors”? Hand it to AOL for pure shamelessness. Not even […]
Members of AOL fight a constant battle with spam, especially if they don’t know how to fiddle with the “Spam Control” buttons on their inboxes. The printed version of the spam they’re mercilessly bombarded with each year would have to be measured in tons. This article from ZWire (page no longer exists) outlines how the […]
Bad news for AOL: ever since the service became free in August 2006, it’s been devolving into a phisher’s paradise. Now anyone with a broadband connection can download AOL’s free software and use AOL as a proxy server to redirect a website to any other website. If you think about this for a minute you […]
Kent D. Wakeford, former executive affairs director of AOL’s now-defunct NY business unit. It’s a real award (as far as he was concerned) and was bestowed upon him by his former boss, David Colburn. In Colburn’s speech about it, he called Kent’s deal-making with PurchasePro, their former business partner: …““science fiction,” according to “Stealing Time,” […]
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