Comments on: Full Text Of AOL Email: XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring To Shut Down

By: Aol shuts down Aol pictures, xdrive, and blue string « Invincible Tech

Aol shuts down Aol pictures, xdrive, and blue string « Invincible Tech — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:45:57 +0000

[...] July we wrote about AOL’s plans to shutter a number of services based on an internal email from EVP Products and Marketing Kevin [...]

By: AOL Begins Shutdown Of AOL Pictures, BlueString And Xdrive : VCsAndAngels - Venture Capital / VCs, Angel Investors, Startup News, Etc

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:50:37 +0000

[...] July we wrote about AOL’s plans to shutter a number of services based on an internal email from EVP Products and Marketing Kevin [...]

By: AOL Begins Shutdown Of AOL Pictures, BlueString And Xdrive

AOL Begins Shutdown Of AOL Pictures, BlueString And Xdrive — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:20:00 +0000

[...] July we wrote about AOL’s plans to shutter a number of services based on an internal email from EVP Products and Marketing Kevin [...]

By: Catzie

Catzie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:03:38 +0000

Geez. We’re having the same problem. I tried to type the code so many times but the form kept returning me error messages. I’m sure that I typed the code correctly anyway. Oh well.

By: Andrius

Andrius — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:09:41 +0000

Hello,

Somehow i’m not able to sign in for a free X-drive account. What is the matter? i can’t get the right security code although i see it clearly in the picture. I even tried listening to the code by pressing audio.. but still nothing

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By: AOL Abandons 28 Million Potential Pictures Users By The End Of The Year | Calling Shotgun

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:55:13 +0000

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By: Black Web 2.0 » Blog Archive » Time Warner Splitting AOL, Preparing for Possible Sale

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:46:07 +0000

[...] well as complete cuts of some of AOL’s products including; Bluestring, Xdrive and AOL Pictures, according to an internal memo from Kevin Conroy, AOL’s [...]

By: Steven paul

Steven paul — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:03:23 +0000

Its Really stupid for AOL to close X - DRIVE. I suppose xdrive is one of the excellent online storage products .Guess the management is marching towards thier own grave. This shows clearly that AOL is slowly vanishing and it looks like the day is not too far !! So who is next yahoo or Google?

By: The Desktop as a Revenue Growth Opportunity | Enetlive.net- Rich Internet Applications Blog

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:18:23 +0000

[...] is shutting down a bunch of properties. Frankly, AOL is probably not the kind of company you look to when you think of leading edge. But [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:00:35 +0000

I wish they would have given a date on the “sunsetting”- Developers should get a timeframe for how long they have to write exporter apps before the services disappear. Obviously this doesn’t apply to XDrive, but services like AOL Pictures.

By: AOL’s Blogging Aspirations Imploding « Koo’s Corner

AOL’s Blogging Aspirations Imploding « Koo’s Corner — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:36:35 +0000

[...] The past week, AOL has seen a handful of developments further hurting the public perception of their social media efforts. First came word that AOL was making cuts to the Webogs network (dumb move, do you really want hundreds of full time bloggers underemployed and bitter at you?). Then came the bigger story that AOL was making larger cuts to a variety of different business segments, [...]

By: SOMEWHAT FRANK

SOMEWHAT FRANK — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:27:36 +0000

myAOL Turns One As Other AOL Products Sunset…

I was on the road last week and weekend for TECH cocktail Boston 2 so down time and internet access were sparse so I did not get a chance to wish myAOL, the personalized startpage product I moved to the east coast to work on for AOL, a proper one year…

By: WebbAlert - July 28, 2008 | TechTV Update

WebbAlert - July 28, 2008 | TechTV Update — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:34:49 +0000

[...] string of services, including AOL Pictures, MyMobile, and the X-drive storage service. Here’s the full memo that spells it [...]

By: AOL encerra serviços de partilha de ficheiros por falta de rentabilidade | Remixtures

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:00:39 +0000

[...] de fotos) e Xdrive (serviço generalista de partilha de ficheiros). A notícia foi dada pelo TechCrunch (via P2P Blog) que publicou um memorando interno enviado por Kevin Conroy, o vice-presidente [...]

By: Social Networking News

Social Networking News — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:06:38 +0000

[...] Full Text Of AOL Email: XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring To Shut DownBelow is the full text of the email AOL EVP Kevin Conroy sent out to staff on July 14, outlining the reorganization of his product groups and announcing the “sunsetting” of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile and Bluestring.This follows the news of budget cuts at AOL’s blogging properties earlier today.At the start of this year I […] [...]

By: Persuasive Picks for the week of 07/21/08 : PerkettPRsuasion - The PerkettPR Blog

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:58:40 +0000

[...] Full Text Of AOL Email: XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring To Shut Down Assets at AOL continue to crumble with the announcement of four product cuts following the recent coverage of cuts across cuts with their blogging properties their blogging properties. Mike Arrington shares the full text of the official email from AOL EVP Kevin Conroy in this post. [...]

By: Fake Kevin Conroy

Fake Kevin Conroy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:53:07 +0000

Kevin Conroy is the single individual doing the most damage at AOL these days. He is not a product guy, and based on his track record, not a marketing guy either. Everything he has touched at AOL (Broadband, SEO, products) has withered and died.

It shouldn’t have taken a genius to know that Bluestring was one of the most poorly conceived and even more poorly executed consumer experiences in the history of the web.

Conroy doesn’t have a clue what to do or where to focus, and as long as he’s calling the shots, AOL will continue to disintegrate.

Please God let MSFT or YHOO buy us and put us out of our misery… and Conroy out on the street.

By: Michael Estrin

Michael Estrin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:04:53 +0000

What’s amazing in all of this is that Platform-A, AOL’s ad business, is doing great. At least according to them. They issued a press release late yesterday talking about how awesome Platform-A’s Advertising.com property is doing. How’s that for timing?
http://www.imediaconnection.com/news/20063.asp

By: .: GAFNO.com - Hot World News Blog :. » Blog Archive » Reports: AOL cuts XDrive, Pictures, some blogs

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:59:11 +0000

[...] Among those to be shuttered are Bluestring, a site to share videos, music, and photos; Xdrive, a general-purpose online storage service; and AOL Pictures, where users could store and share photos, according to a July 14 memo from Kevin Conroy, AOL’s executive vice president of products and marketing published at TechCrunch. [...]

By: AOL cutting underperforming properties - Top Stocks

AOL cutting underperforming properties - Top Stocks — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:30:23 +0000

[...] and Yahoo, but so far no one is biting. AOL exec Kevin Conroy seems to lay it out straight in an email about the changes, which was posted at TechCrunch. “There was a time at AOL when the strengths of our aggregate [...]

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:41:14 +0000

Those email addresses were sold as part of a fire sale after the initial rounds of VC ran out for xdrive….right before they went bankrupt.

Chris and Tom left because everyone was leaving as the company ran out of money. Chris and Tom are spammers and should be viewed with contempt.
MySpace was dumb luck on their part as they needed to get out of response base because of CAN-SPAM.

By: AOL to sell Xdrive, close photo and mobile sites | Blogging

AOL to sell Xdrive, close photo and mobile sites | Blogging — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:33:42 +0000

[...] Among those products to be shuttered are Bluestring, a site to share videos, music, and photos; Xdrive, a general-purpose online storage service; and AOL Pictures, where people could store and share photos, according to a July 14 memo from Kevin Conroy, AOL’s executive vice president of products and marketing. The memo was published Thursday by TechCrunch. [...]

By: That’s Xdrive. As in “Ex-Drive.” | Technologizer

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:28:15 +0000

[...] We don’t know much about what’ll happen to the service other than what’s in an internal AOL memo that’s been published at TechCrunch–that it’s being “sunsetted”–which is usually a code-word for [...]

By: AOL trims for sale? | Ertx.com - Updated Every 20 Minutes

AOL trims for sale? | Ertx.com - Updated Every 20 Minutes — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:56:52 +0000

[...] TechCrunch’s report on AOL’s “sunsetting” of Xdrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile and Bluestring spread like wildfire yesterday, at a time when the future of its ownership hangs in the balance. [...]