It’s getting hard to find out much about AOL with only a few million people left who still use it, and many of them pissed about a home page redesign that occurred over four years ago. I can understand AOL isn’t catering to the broadest nor most technically adept userbase and that the need for […]
A comment I received yesterday said, in part: “The lucky ones [implied: who subscribe to Verizon] that could afford fast dsl & then fios a long time ago don’t care about all this misery [implied: for AOL users] and that’s my hard luck”. I thought how common it might be to believe (or to fear, […]
What follows is pure editorial and I don’t mean to sound like sour grapes but I’ve gotta say it. There would be no Verizon buying AOL today without AOL’s remaining 2 million subscribers – because without those subscribers AOL would no longer exist. That’s right: if 2 million people had cancelled AOL in a more […]
In perhaps a small presage to the Verizon/AOL deal, Verizon has been running an AOL web portal for smartphone users since May 2013 (the first archive.org record of it was made on Aug.26th 2013; the cached page welcomes users “to the new Verizon Portal by AOL”). Curious as to how this happened, I found an […]
Yesterday on my other blog I asked readers an odd question: “How will Google’s new all-in-one privacy policy affect people who use AOL’s search engine, since it’s “enhanced by Google”?” It’s a question no one’s asked – nor answered before. Without waiting for a response, I fired off two emails: one to AOL’s Privacy Team, […]
If you know where the damn page is this time, let us know – leave a comment! It’s perfectly bizarre to check your stats maybe once a month like I do and expect to see the normal 100-200 visitors a day but instead see there’s been almost 1600 – in under 36 hours. I mean, […]
Update 11-2015: There is no AOL Classic Page. The last known version was removed from aol.com back in 2011. Please stop trying to find it. What you want does not exist. The article below references something you will no longer find. [DON’T] Try this link for the Old AOL Classic look: http://www.aol.com/?src=classic title=”This link does […]
Oh, boy, how one thing always leads to another, especially with AOL. Tonight a reader asked how to access the AOL Classic home page (the answer is you can’t, because AOL Classic is gone). Once that was sorted out (I told her to use http://netscape.aol.com instead – it’s ugly, but it’s basically the same thing), […]
There are lots of stories going around about AOL lately. Let’s clear some of them up. Myth #1: AOL no longer sells dial-up access. False. AOL still sells dial-up and BYOA (Bring-Your-Own-Access). The good news is, AOL is down to 4 million subscribers from an all-time high of 25 million subscribers in 2005, with more […]
I was afraid to believe it, so I emailed the person in question to be sure, but before she could reply (that was only 5 minutes ago) I found a post that confirms that Annalivia Ford is the last Postmaster left at AOL, and unfortunately she will be leaving this Friday (I ran across the […]
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