Comments on: AOL wants to be bought

By: oakie

oakie — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:11:35 +0000

i say AOL be given death by 1000 cuts instead of seppuku.

and cut them with those dreaded AOL discs of the past.

By: Christopher Cox

Christopher Cox — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:04:04 +0000

Seriously AOL content is stale, it was yesterday and nobody cares about it anymore. There is absolutely nothing on AOL content was that can’t be found on another more organized web site somewhere. The moment web pages and online content became a mass market comodity where everyone and their momma has one, was the day AOL started going down the tubes. For me, back in the day, AOL was the best and easiest way to get content, and much of that content was not found easily on the broader Internet or not available at all. Those days are now gone, and AOL has absolutely nothing in todays time.

AOL has content that another company would want? Highly unlikely. The only thing AOL has to offer is AIM and possibly parental control software.

By: Kunikos

Kunikos — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:25:10 +0000

I suggest to the Time Warner execs that it’s time for AOL’s euthanasia.

By: glenn

glenn — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:42:52 +0000

without any sarcastic comments.. what’s the actual purchase value of aol? does anyone know?

By: thelostsoul

thelostsoul — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:34:18 +0000

A google purchase of AOL would better their gtalk application as they could possibly merge the databases as they did with Blogger, though that would be incredibly complicated.

I don’t see Google having much a use for anything else of AOL’s, though their content could help them. And I think it looks like Google would have the most to gain (though very little) from an AOL purchase than anyone else…perhaps a partnership of some sort would be better….

By: Christopher Cox

Christopher Cox — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:06:53 +0000

@Galvatron

WHAT???

By: Monsieur Fantastic

Monsieur Fantastic — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:28:25 +0000

Ill bid a dollar … That’s it

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:53:58 +0000

indeed aan aols clintware is spyware in discuis imo it wrees havioc on your settings an registry

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:05:16 +0000

AOL’s demise came with the mass adoption of broadband over Dial-up connections. They were basically a content delivery mechanism then and still is now though their mostly redundant since every movie/actor/artist has a webpage somewhere.

I was AOL customer ~15 years ago (wow, that long ago?!?) I Smartened up when I “discovered” PPP and quickly realized that AOL was the Internet on training wheels. Eventually the wheels had to come off….