Comments on: Product Group ReOrg At AOL: The Memo

By: Tip Maker

Tip Maker — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:37:37 +0000

Tunome/AOL wrap their hooks around you and DO NOT LET YOU GO. That’s how they pad their numbers to claim “ranks #2 in the US in terms of unique visitors”. It would be interesting to know exactly how many of the registered users actually use their addresses frequently and how many are actually dormant. I signed up for a free AOL and TUNOME to see if they were really all they claim to be. Now I want out, there IS NO WAY OUT! I don’t know any other provider that does that (and I have tried many). Closing/canceling/deleting an account if one is dissatisfied has become a feature of even a basic service. But not the “revamped” TUNOME/AOL. Think twice before registering!

By: Get your News » Startups Smell Userplane Blood

Get your News » Startups Smell Userplane Blood — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:31:19 +0000

[...] was named new president of the product group at AOL back in January 2009, his memo – which we published in full here on techCrunch – states that Userplane would be moved into the People Networks business unit [...]

By: Startups Smell Userplane Blood

Startups Smell Userplane Blood — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:27:08 +0000

[...] was named new president of the product group at AOL back in January 2009, his memo – which we published in full here on TechCrunch – states that Userplane would be moved into the People Networks business unit under [...]

By: AOL axing 700 employees

AOL axing 700 employees — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:55:59 +0000

[...] on other products including Bebo, MediaGlow and ad unit Platform A. The company also dismantled and reorganized its product management earlier this year; following the departure of Kevin [...]

By: chrisco

chrisco — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:33:40 +0000

It’s time to shut AOL down. BTW, this is funny/sad/explains a lot: “In Landslide, John McCain Is The President Of AOL.com”: http://www.alle...dent-of-aol-com

By: onassarHasNoOpinion

onassarHasNoOpinion — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:32:44 +0000

@onassar: Just pointing to TC links gives you no credibility. TC is no bible. And all I think you did was search for “AOL” and gave those links. Did you read what was written in those links?

AOL has cool products like Mail, AIM, MQ, Search, Bebo. They have nice content sites to go with it. I like engadget, TMZ, AOL.com. I still like asylum.com

Yahoo has its niches. So does that make everything in some other company bad?

By: OldScienceGuy

OldScienceGuy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:07:09 +0000

I guess you missed domains like @blackvoices.com @mcom.com (anyone remember netscape?) @when.com @games.com ,,, that are right on the first page of tunome.com.

By: OldScienceGuyShouldGetReal

OldScienceGuyShouldGetReal — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:39:59 +0000

The tunome offering of domain names are an absolute joke.

alwaysgrilling.com, fanofcooking.com, likeworkingout.com, bigtimecatperson.com, etc…

With 150 crap domain names anyway you stack them you still end up with a pile of crap.

I’d rather have some random number at the end of my address or think of something else cute then having to type some ridiculously long domain name.

By: onassar

onassar — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:30:20 +0000

http://www.tech...tical-to-yahoo/

The ingenuity is compelling.

By: onassar

onassar — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:27:49 +0000

You don’t need to eat every meal at a restaurant to say that it’s no good.

http://www.tech...video-business/
http://www.tech...ized-startpage/
http://www.tech...ing-and-xdrive/
http://www.tech...ture-uncertain/

And those are just from TC. I think the day that AOL did a blatant copy of yahoo’s homepage. Almost pixel for pixel, was the day that it started to plummet. The only reason it has any of the market share it does is because of it’s position in the dial up industry however many years ago. It’s the same reason m$ is so big these days. Because they became established with great products, and are now desperate to play catch up.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:18:56 +0000

@onassar: If you are as informed as you want to appear to be, then please provide the facts why you think AOL has a dysfunct line of products. I assume – in order to be able to do so – you actually used them all.

By: AOL、ようやくプロダクトグループの再編を実施

AOL、ようやくプロダクトグループの再編を実施 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:11:27 +0000

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By: OldScienceGuy

OldScienceGuy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:07:09 +0000

Actually, Mail from AOL ranks #2 in the US in terms of unique visitors and has been totally revamped, including an open plug-in UI for 3rd party extensions. There are over 150 domains available to chose from, so you can get a email address you really like without any random numbers tacked on the end.

Check out beta.webmail.aol.com for the latest product or http://www.tunome.com to browse through available domains and addresses.

Clearly I work for AOL, but don’t damm everything without checking it out first.

By: onassar

onassar — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:28:07 +0000

It’s about time. AOL’s product line is an absolute joke. Point me to one area where they are dominant. m$ arguably has email in numbers, yahoo is close, has search, and an active portal, google has search, mail, docs, rss and api’s.. and aol? a defunct line of products that aren’t worth a penny imo.

That tells you what kind of product guys there are at aol.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:43:17 +0000

Quite likely I’d imagine, no doubt due in part to AOL’s share of the AOL/Time $25B write-down yesterday.

By: Hush

Hush — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:31:07 +0000

Things shaking up at AOL.

Layoffs to follow?